Vim is a text editor which uses keyboard shortcuts for editing instead of menus

or icons. There exist a couple of plugins and settings for the VIM editor to

aid Python development. If you only develop in Python, a good start is to set

the default settings for indentation and line-wrapping to values compliant with

`PEP 8 <http://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0008/>`_. In your home directory,

open a file called `.vimrc` and add the following lines:::

With these settings, newlines are inserted after 79 characters and indentation

is set to 4 spaces per tab. If you also use VIM for other languages, there is a

handy plugin at indent_, which handles indentation settings for Python source

files.

There is also a handy syntax plugin at syntax_ featuring some improvements over

Python-mode_ is a complex solution in VIM for working with python code.

It has:

- Async Python code checking (pylint, pyflakes, pep8, mccabe) in any combination

- Code refactoring and autocompletion with Rope

- Fast Python folding

- Virtualenv support

- Search by Python documentation and run Python code

- Auto PEP8 error fixes

And more.

`Spyder <http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/>`_ is an IDE specifically geared

toward working with scientific Python libraries (namely `Scipy <http://www.scipy.org/>`_).

It includes integration with pyflakes_, `pylint <http://www.logilab.org/857>`_,

and `rope <http://rope.sourceforge.net/>`_.

WingIDE

`WingIDE <http://wingware.com/>`_ is a Python specific IDE. It runs on Linux,

Windows, and Mac (as an X11 application, which frustrates some Mac users).

WingIDE offers code completion, syntax highlighting, source browser, graphical