Whats is the best software ?

Question

What is the best software (free) for writing Python programs ?

Answer 1

Yes i have that but do you need some sort of plugins to allow python to work on it I've only ever used C# on VS

Answer 2

https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/pythonengineering/2017/03/07/JUMP_LINK__&&__python__&&__JUMP_LINK-support-in-vs2017/

Answer 3

@luka can you recommend an alternative ?

Answer 4

check out my link, you can use python in vs 2017

Answer 5

No harm intented, but unless you provide specific criteria, questions for the "best of" anything usually don't make a lot of sense. More so, if the "best" suggested by others is something that you don't get along with because you find the interface counter-intuitive or worse ;-)

Anyway, I suggest to have a look at the following:

Spyder, https://pythonhosted.org/spyder/
This is a multiplatform IDE under a MIT license.

Jupyter notebook (formerly known as IPython notebook), https://ipython.org/notebook.html

This runs in a modern web browser and I think it is a nice tool for prototyping. Code is organized in cells, which can be executed separately. In addition to the code cells, you can have cells with images, nicely styled text (Markdown, LaTeX). I use this a lot for talks and demos.

Note that Spyder and the Jupyter notebook are both part of a Python distribution called Anaconda, which is available at no cost from Continuum Analytics, https://www.continuum.io/why-anaconda.

Answer 6

Thank you to everyone for there input on this topic it has at least cleared some issues up for me and given me something to look at in the near future.

Answer 7

I suppose visual studio 2015-17

Answer 8

if they aren't built-in you have to download templates for python

Answer 9

Ah ok can I do that inside VS ?

Answer 10

I suppose yes

Answer 11

ah ok thanks for the input

Answer 12

yeah no problem, good luck with python