What text editor is everyone using for Python

Ben Finney ben+python at benfinney.id.au
Wed May 27 02:44:51 EDT 2009


Lacrima <Lacrima.Maxim at gmail.com> writes:

> I am new to python.
> And now I am using trial version of Wing IDE.
> But nobody mentioned it as a favourite editor.
> So should I buy it when trial is expired or there are better choices?

I think your time will be better spent learning a powerful, mature,
well-supported, free-software, programmable editor with support for an
enormous range of text processing tasks.

Either of Vim or Emacs qualify. Language-specific IDEs do not.

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