PyDev

What is PyDev?

PyDev is a powerful Integrated Development Environment (IDE) designed specifically for programming in Python. As a third-party plug-in for the Eclipse platform, PyDev offers a comprehensive set of features to enhance the Python development experience. The IDE supports a wide range of Python implementations, including CPython, Jython, and IronPython, ensuring compatibility with various Python environments. PyDev's extensive feature set includes code completion with auto-import, code analysis, a graphical debugger, a debug console, an interactive console, and support for Python 2.x and 3.x syntax. The IDE also boasts basic syntax highlighting, an outline view, preferences for tabs or spaces, smart indent and dedent functionality, code folding, the ability to go to code definitions, code coverage tools, and integration with Pylint for code analysis. PyDev further provides content assistants for tasks such as assigning results to attributes or local variables, surrounding code with try-catch or finally blocks, creating docstrings, and moving imports to the global scope. With its extensive feature set and tight integration with the Eclipse platform, PyDev offers a robust and efficient development environment for Python programmers

Highlights

• Support for multiple Python implementations (CPython, Jython, IronPython)
• Code completion with auto-import
• Graphical debugger and debug console
• Interactive console for Python 2.x and 3.x
• Code analysis and Pylint integration
• Content assistants for common development tasks