Name

Platform

FreeSoftware?

ZeroPrice?

Notes

Alphatk

Unix,Windows,Mac OS X

X

X

Extensible in Tcl, Tk; Can interact with python.

Code::Blocks

Linux, Windows

class browser does not currently work for .py files, but it's still a nice IDE to use for python projects

Bluefish

Linux, MacOS X

The link points to the features page.

Cream

Linux,Windows,FreeBSD

Cream is a free and easy-to-use configuration of the powerful and famous Vim text editor for both Microsoft Windows and GNU/Linux.

Cssed

Linux,Windows,Mac OS X, BSD

Editor with syntax highlighting for Python, and embeded Python interpreter. Extensible through a Python API.

codeEditor

Unix, Windows, Mac

Extensible in Python; part of PythonCard. Includes PyCrust shell.

ConText

Unix(?), Windows, Mac(?)

X

Text Editor that can work with many formats, such as HTML and Javascript, and it also includes a Python reader.

eric3

Unix,Windows

Complete IDE, very well integrated with PyQT development, but usable for any kind of project. Supports projects, debugging, auto-complete, syntax coloring, etc.

CRiSP

Unix, Linux, OpenBSD, FreeBSD, SunOS, Solaris, HPUX, SGI Irix, Windows, Cygwin, MacOS

?

X

BRIEF-compatible, supports Python syntax, in-buffer Python interpreter, supports lots of languages. Powerful macro language.

DrPython

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X

Simple, Highly Customizable Editor/Environment. A Tribute to DrScheme.

Eclipse

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X, others

"Eclipse is ... an open extensible IDE for anything and nothing in particular." Support for Python can be obtained via the PyDEV plugin.

Eclipse+Afae

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X, others

In addition to PyDEV, support for Python can be obtained via the Afae plugin which supports many languages (Afae also shows whitespace).

EditPad Pro

Windows, Linux

X

X

Powerful and flexible text editor with built-in Python syntax highlighting, Python class browsing, Python-compatible regular expressions, code folding, and extensive options for running external tools such as Python scripts.

Editra

Linux, Mac OS X, Windows

A general purpose programmers text editor written in Python/wxPython. It supports python syntax highlighting, auto-ident, and auto-completion.

EmacsEditor

Unix, Windows, Mac

Python support with EmacsPythonMode. Extensible in Python using pymacs

Epsilon

Windows, Linux, FreeBSD, and OS/2

X

X

Customizable Python mode, syntax coloring, function tagging.

FTE Text Editor

Windows, Unix, DOS, OS/2 console, Unix/X

Supports lots of languages, including Python; doesn't seem programmable

Geany

Windows, Unix/X

A small and lightweight GTK+ IDE that supports lots of languages, including Python.

J

Java

syntax coloring for python, extensible with jython, supports many file formats, has folding, fully customisable, has sidebar for class and functions, fast for a Java application

Jasspa's MicroEmacs

Unix, Windows

Supports Python syntax and a Python-specific menu.

JED

Unix, VMS, MSDOS, OS/2, BeOS, QNX, and Windows.

Syntax highlighting and indenting, (optional) emacs keybindings, programmable with s-lang. Note: comment out "msw_help(..." line in pymode.sl if you are having problems on Windows.

JEdit

Java

Has three plugins - one for Jython and one for Python/Jython JpyDbg - interactive editing debugging, code browsing, highlighting.

JpyDbg

Win, Linux, Mac ( Netbeans jEdit cross IDE Plugin)

Netbeans jEdit cross IDE plugin

Komodo IDE

Unix, Windows, Mac OS X

X

X

Komodo is an award winning Python IDE from ActiveState. Fully-integrated python support featuring code intelligence with autocomplete and calltips, python debugger (includes remote debugging), interactive shell, remote file support, macros, templating, emacs command support and it all comes with great help documentation.

Komodo Edit

Unix, Windows, Mac OS X

X

Komodo Edit is a scaled-down version of the Komodo IDE which also supports Python.

Leo

Unix, Windows, Mac

Outlining editor, fully scriptable and extensible, supporting literate programming. 100% pure Python code.

MED

Windows, OS/2

X

X

Auto-completion, customizable keybindings, section browser...

medit

Unix,Windows

Gtk editor with python bindings, allows plugins written in python.

NEdit

Unix, VMS, Win32, MacOS X

X-Based, Python support builtin.

Netbeans

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X, others

Netbeans is an open extensible cross platform IDE ; Support for Python can be obtained via the JpyDbg plugin.

UliPad

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X

wxPython based editor. Can be easily extended with mixins and plugins, and has many features. Seems to be biased towards Python web development as contains FTP GUI, RSS aggregator and HTML preview.

Pepper

MacOS Classic/MacOS X, Linux, FreeBSD, Windows 2k/XP

?

?

Builtin support for Python. Was defunct, now revived. Incremental search. No tabbed-interface.

pyDev

Win, Linux, Mac ( Eclipse Plugin)

Eclipse plugin. Code-completion. Debugger. Under active development. ( ShowMeDo Videos)

PyPE

Windows/X (Python+wxPython)

Written in Python - code folding, snippets, unicode, multiple documents, code completion, several languages, macros.

PythonCardEditor

Unix/Windows/Mac

?

?

Extensible in Python, part of PythonCard.

SciTe

Unix/Windows

An application of the widely-used Scintilla rich text widget/control. Python API for calltips and autocompletion available.

SPE

Windows, Linux, Mac OS X (Python+wxPython)

Stani's Python Editor. Auto indentation, auto completion, call tips, syntax coloring/highlighting, UML viewer, class explorer, source index, auto todo list, sticky notes, integrated PyCrust shell, Python file browser, recent file browser, drag&drop, context help. Blender support with a Blender 3D object browser, runs interactively inside Blender. Ships with WxGlade (GUI designer), PyChecker (source code doctor) and Kiki (regular expression console). Extensible with WxGlade. ( ShowMeDo Videos)

SlickEdit

Windows, Linux, Solaris, AIX, IRIX, HP-UX and Mac OS X

X

X

Syntax coloring, popup function arguments, class hierarchy browser, other nice Python features. Context tagging with class/module namespaces, code navigation, and smart indenting are also supported.

ViImproved (Vim)

Unix, Windows, MacOS, etc.

Highly configurable text editor built to enable efficient text editing. Syntax coloring, indenting, autocompletion, and source-navigation tools for Python. Can be scripted in Python. See also Cream.

Wing IDE

Windows, Linux, and MacOS with X11 Server

X

X

Powerful commercial IDE designed for specifically for Python. Auto-completion, call tips, syntax highlighting, goto-definition, keyboard modes for emulating Visual Studio, VI/Vim, Emacs, & Brief, graphical debugger, code browser, integrated shell, scriptable in Python, and much more. ( ShowMeDo Videos)

wxKonTEXT

Unix/Windows

?

?

Simple text editor written in python. Syntax highlighter, Code fold, Export code in HTML....

Name

Platform

FreeSoftware?

ZeroPrice?

Notes

Cooledit

Unix/X

?

?

Extensible in Python

CUTE

Unix + QT

scintilla based, with python scriptable text editor.

gedit

Unix + Gnome

gedit is the official text editor of the GNOME desktop environment, with Python syntax highlighting.

Glimmer

Unix + Gnome

?

?

Editor written in C with Python bindings.

GNU nano

ncurses

Tiny, fast, compatible but enhanced pico clone. nano can do syntax highlighting (some nano tips).

JOE

Unix

Color-highlighting WordStar-like editor supports many highlight modes

KWrite

Unix

Advanced editor for the KDE environment - supports Python syntax.

Kate

Unix

KDE Advanced Text Editor (uses KWrite component) - supports Python syntax. Now has a plugin to browse Python classes and globals.

Moleskine

Linux/FreeBSD

?

?

Written in Python, so should be extensible using Python.

pyeditor

Unix

?

?

Editor written in Python atop PyScintilla and PyGtk.

Quanta KDE

Linux + KDE

Full-featured web development environment that also supports Python.

Scribes

Unix + Gnome

Scribes is a simple, slim and sleek text editor for GNOME, with Python syntax highlighting.

Wily

Unix

Acme clone for Unix. Can connect to it (and control it) from Python.

xrope

Python Tkinter

GUI, class browser, file manager, with code completion. Licensed under the GPL.

Name

Syntax Highlighting

FreeSoftware?

ZeroPrice?

Python-specific notes

FAR+ colorer

X

X

Automatic (no wordlist) autocompletion. Also there are lots of plugins including even any windows scripting host (including python) scripting

Code-Genie

X

X

CodeWright

X

X

Pull the appropriate file from https://www.codewright.com/support/addons.asp for Python support.

ConText

?

Spaces instead of tabs (and one backspace to delete four spaces). Code templates.

Crimson

?

e

X

X

Comes with the Python bundle from TextMate

Editeur

X

X

EditPlus

X

X

Autocompletion via description files.

EmEditor

X

X

Unicode and multibyte languages support. Extremely fast. Find/Replace in Files. Supports JavaScript/VBScript scripting.

HAP Debugger

?

Editor built on SciTe; main claim to fame is a robust debugger that has remote capabilities.

Hurricane Editor

X

X

Syntax coloring customizable.

Multi-Edit

X

X

Builtin support for Python.

NotePad++

This project, based on Scintilla edit component (a very powerful editor component) and written in C++ with pure win32 api and STL. Supports auto-completion, code folding, etc for C, C++, Java, Javascript, Python, C#, XML, HTML, VBScript, PHP, and plenty more!

NotePad2

Supports Python Syntax highlighting by default. Great Notepad replacement for windows. Source available for download.

PN2

Python syntax highlighting, quick code navigation, scripting in development, open source.

PrimalCode

X

X

Auto-completion.

PrimalScript

X

X

Auto-completion

Programmer Studio

X

X

Auto-completion, class browser, parameter tips, ...

PSPad

X

Class browser, auto-completion, syntax highlighting, ftp client, project files, hex editor, file differences ..

PyScripter

Auto-completion, call-tips, syntax highlighting, class browser, debugger, very fast (build with Delphi & Python for Delphi (P4D))

PythonWin

X

Auto-completion, call-tips, syntax highlighting, part of win32 ..

Source Insight

X

X

Symbol database support for Python if you get the Python.CLF file provided by the Source Insight folks.

Syn

?

Incremental Search, support Python scripting.

TextPad

X

Add Python with a free download from the Textpad site.

UltraEdit

X

X

Supports syntax coloring and autocompletion using a wordfile. An updated version that supports Python 2.x is also available.

Zeus

X

X

Class browsing, code folding, auto-completion, integrated CVS, project management, Python aware smart indenting, syntax coloring and builtin Python scripting.

Name

Platform

Notes

AlphaTcl

MacOS

Python-mode extensible in Tcl

BBEdit

MacOS 9/MacOS X

Full-featured text editor; includes Python support. TextWrangler is the free version (see below).

irEdit

MacOS X

Builtin support for Python. Defunct?

MacPython IDE

MacOS

Included in MacPython distribution.

mi

MacOS 68k MaOS 9 MacOS X

Does not initially include Python support but new language modes can be created. One available here Mi_Python

SubEthaEdit

MacOS X

Python syntax coloring. Allow multiple author to edit the same file collaborativelly over the network using "Bonjour" (previously Rendezvous).

TextWrangler

MacOS X

Free and full-featured text editor based on BBEdit. Includes Python syntax highlighting.

Xcode

MacOS X

Free IDE and text editor. Includes Python syntax coloring.

TextMate

Mac OS X 10.3.9+

Great Cocoa editor with Python support including syntax coloring, integrated documentation, and a runtime wrapper with hyperlinked tracebacks

Smultron

Mac OS X 10.3 or later

Open-source (GPL) text editor, with Python syntax highlighting

ScrIDE

Mac OS X 10.3 or later

Free OS X based IDE for the Python (and other) programming language (replaces discontinued PyOXIDE), with syntax coloring, completion, tool tips, source level debugger, help browser, etc...

Name

Platform

Notes

PyCrust

Python + PyCrust

Interactive Python shell included in wxPython.

IPython

Unix, MacOS X, Windows

Enhanced interactive Python shell. Also usable as pythonic system shell (bash/cmd.exe) replacement. Supports autocompletion. ( ShowMeDo Videos)

JyConsole

Java, at least 1.4

Interactive, embeddable Jython shell with code completion. Licensed under the QPL.

psi

win32

Interactive python shell using wxPython. py script and exe for win. Data plotting capability from within the shell. Free.

khpython

KDE

An interactive Python shell using PyKDE and a KHTMLPart (for HTML rendering).

PEEQ

Python 2.3 (or higher) and PyQt

An interactive Python shell using PyQt.