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Multiplatform Editors

Name

Platform

Impl. Language

License

Notes

a8

Linux, FreeBSD

Python, GTK

GPLv3

Embed Vim. Little brother of PIDA

Alphatk

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X

Tcl/Tk

Proprietary

Extensible in Tcl, Tk; Can interact with python.

Atom

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X

Python

MIT

Python language support for Atom-IDE, powered by the Python language server.

Code::Blocks

Linux, Windows, Mac OS X

C++, wxWidgets

GPLv3

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

Bluefish

Linux, Windows, Mac OS X

C, GTK+

GPLv3

The link points to the features page.

Cream

Linux, Windows, FreeBSD

C

GPLv3

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

Cssed

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X

C, GTK+

GPLv2

CSS editor with syntax highlighting for Python, and embedded Python interpreter. Extensible through a Python API.

codeEditor

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X

Python, wxPython

BSD

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

CodeLobster

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X

Python

Proprietary

Free version includes Python support.

eric

Linux, Windows, Mac OS X

Python, PyQt

GPLv3

Complete IDE, very well integrated with PyQT development, but usable for any kind of project. Supports projects, debugging, auto-complete, syntax coloring, etc. It is extensible via plug-in system. Integrated version control interface for Git, Subversion and Mercurial through core plugins. eric6 requires Python 3 (and, if desired, PyQt5), and supports CxFreeze and PyInstaller, Django and Pyramid, PyLint and Vulture

CRiSP

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X

Proprietary

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

DRAKON Editor

Windows, Mac OS X, Linux

Tcl/Tk

Public domain

DRAKON diagram editor with code generation in Python.

DreamPie

Windows, Linux and Mac/MacPorts

Python, PyGTK

GPLv3

Interactive shell with history box and code box, auto-completion of attributes and file names, auto-display of function arguments and documentation. Keeps your recent results, provides session history saving (optionally in HTML), interactive plotting with matplotlib. Extremely fast and responsive.

DrPython

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X

Python, wxPython

GPL

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

Eclipse

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X

Java

EPL

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

EditPad Pro

Linux, Windows

Proprietary

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, Windows, Mac OS X

Python, wxPython

wxWindows

A general purpose developer's text editor written in Python/wxPython. It supports python syntax highlighting, auto-ident, auto-completion, classbrowser, and can run scripts from inside the editor. Extensible with plugins written in python.

EmacsEditor

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS

C, Lisp

GPLv3

Python support with EmacsPythonMode. Extensible in Python using pymacs

Epsilon

Linux, Windows, FreeBSD and OS/2

Proprietary

Customizable Python mode, syntax coloring, function tagging.

ExCo

Linux, Windows, Mac OS

Python, PyQt4

GPLv3

Extensible editor written in Python, Python/C/Nim code tree browser, 3-window editing, text diff, multi-language support, Python REPL, manipulate editor text with Python code

FTE Text Editor

Unix/X, Windows, DOS, OS/2

C++

GPL

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

Geany

Unix/X, Windows

C, GTK+

GPLv2

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

gedit

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS

C, Python

GPLv2

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

J

Linux, Windows, Mac OS X

Java

GPLv2

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

C

GPLv2

Supports Python syntax and a Python-specific menu.

JED

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

C

GPLv2

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

Unix, Windows, Mac OS

Java

GPLv2

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

JpyDbg

Linux, Windows, Mac OS

Java, Python

GPL

Netbeans jEdit cross IDE plugin

Jupp

Unix/OSX/Cygwin/Interix (curses), MS-DOS (DR DOS, FreeDOS, Win, OS/2 DOS-Box)

C

GPL

Versatile WordStar-like editor (JOE fork) with many colourised syntax-highlighting modes

kdevelop

Linux, Windows, Mac OS

C++

GPLv2

Kde main developping app. Code folding, syntax highlighting, navigator. projects, class browser, version control, customizable keybindings. Comes also with some typical python project models: pyton Qt app, Tkinter app and simple script.

Komodo IDE

Unix, Windows, Mac OS X

Proprietary

Komodo is an award winning Python IDE from ActiveState. Fully-integrated Python 3 support featuring code intelligence with autocomplete and calltips, Python debugger (includes remote debugging), interactive shell, remote file support, macros, templating, emacs command support and great help documentation. There is also an open-source version called Komodo Edit (Source), as part of the Open Komodo project started November 2007.

Komodo Edit

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X

Proprietary/Open Source

scaled-down version of Komodo IDE which also supports Python, but excludes the integrated debugger.

gEcrit

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X

Python, wxPython

GPLv3

Python IDE with focus is on simplicity and ease of use. It is fast and lightweight. It features Python indentation, line numbers, code folding, syntax highlighting, shell access, code completion, a program runner, a source browser, indentation guides, a white space indicator, autosaving, an edge line, multiple tabs, printing, jumping to a specific line, word searching, word replacement, zooming undo/redo, pastebin.com code submission, Python syntax checking, the ability to change the indentation of many lines at once, autocompletiton, and bad brace checking.

LeoEditor

Linux, Windows, Mac OS X

Python, PyQt

MIT

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

medit

Unix, Windows

C, GTK+

LGPL

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

micro

Linux, Windows, Mac, BSD

Go, Lua

MIT

A modern and intuitive terminal-based text editor (nano successor)

nano

Linux, Windows

C

GNU GPL

Small, terminal-based editor, Syntax highlighting

ne

Unix, Windows, Mac OS X

C

GPLv3

Easy to use, small, powerful, fast, terminal-based editor. Supports UTF-8, syntax highlighting, undo, autocomplete, macros, regexes, bookmarks. v2.4 released 2012-04

NEdit

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X

C

GPLv2

X-Based, Python support builtin.

Netbeans

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X, others

Java

GPLv2

Netbeans is an open extensible cross platform IDE ; Support for Python can be obtained via the JpyDbg plugin. A new plugin exists for Netbeans 6.5 or newer - info.

NINJA-IDE

Linux, Windows, Mac OS

Python, PyQt4

GPLv3

Lightweight and extensible editor. Class browser, project manager, PEP8 finder, virtualenv, plugin support

UliPad

Unix/X, Windows, Mac OS X

Python, wxPython

GPLv2

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.

PyCharm

Linux, Windows, Mac OS X

Java

Apache 2.0

Full-featured IDE for Python. Has Free and Open Source edition fully supporting Python as well as proprietary Professional Edition with Django, Flask, Pyramid and Google App Engine support.

PyDev

Linux, Windows, Mac OS X

Java, Eclipse

EPL

Eclipse plugin. Code-completion. Debugger. Under active development.

Pye

Linux, Windows

Python, Tk

GPLv3

Ultra-lightweight Python/text editor made in Python with Tk. Emphasis on easy customization and no-bloat attitude.

pyedit

PyBoard, Unix, Windows, Mac OS X

Python

MIT

Written in Python - simple small editor, suitable for MicroPython/circuitPython/Pycopy.

PyPE

Unix, Windows, Mac OS X

Python, wxPython

GPLv2

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

Python for VS Code

Linux, Windows, Mac OS X

NodeJs