[Tutor] Coming from R, what's a good IDE editor? I've tried PyCharm and Spyder

[Zachary Ware]

On Fri, Jun 2, 2017 at 12:46 PM, C W <tmrsg11 at gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Python list,
>
> I am an R user learning Python. What is a good editor?
>
> 1) Pycharm
> PyCharm evaluates the entire script, I just want to change a few lines in
> the script.
> For example,
>
> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
> import numpy as np
>
> x = np.arange(0, 1,0.1)
> y = np.sin(2 * np.pi * x)
>
> plt.figure(1)
> plt.clf()
> plt.plot(x, y)
> plt.show()
>
> Now, I want to do a scatter plot, but don't want to generate the data
> again. I just want the "line by line" evaluation like in R and Matlab.
> Basically, you can type in console and add to the existing variables.

>From the sound of it, you may be more interested in Jupyter Notebook
(jupyter.org) than a "proper editor".  Otherwise, I've been happy with
a combination of PyCharm and vim.

Hope this helps,
-- 
Zach