Alternatives to IDLE for all platforms with any license

  • IPython

    IPython is an interactive shell for the Python programming language that offers enhanced introspection, additional shell syntax, syntax highlighting, tab completion and...

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  • NINJA-IDE

    NINJA-IDE (from the recursive acronym: "Ninja-IDE Is Not Just Another IDE"), is a cross-platform integrated development environment (IDE). NINJA-IDE runs on...

    Free Open Source Mac Windows Linux BSD

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  • PyDev

    PyDev is a third-party plug-in for Eclipse. It is an Integrated Development Environment (IDE) used for programming in Python supporting code refactoring, graphical...

    Free Open Source Windows Linux Eclipse

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  • PyScripter

    PyScripter is a free and open-source Python Integrated Development Environment (IDE) created with the ambition to become competitive in functionality with commercial...

    Free Open Source Windows

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  • Wing IDE

    Wing IDE is a commercial IDE for Python. It has syntax highlighting, code completion via analysis of Python files, Django integration, networked debugging, and more....

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  • Pyzo

    Pyzo is a cross-platform Python IDE focused on interactivity and introspection, which makes it very suitable for scientific computing. Its practical design is aimed at...

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  • Keypress Editor

    This is the editor you were looking for. Keypress is an offline, desktop based code editor. Use Keypress to edit your local files, on any platform. Keypress features...

    Free Chrome OS Chrome

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  • Eric

    Eric is a full-featured IDE (Integrated Development Environment) for Python and Ruby, This is one of the best options for programming in Python. You can extend its...

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  • Ecere SDK

    A cross-platform Software Development Kit including a GUI toolkit, a 2D/3D graphics engine, a networking library, an audio output library, an IDE, a compiler for the eC...

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  • Thonny

    Python IDE for beginners. Its supports different ways of stepping through the code, step-by-step expression evaluation, detailed visualization of the call stack and a...

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  • Python Tools For Visual Studio

    PTVS is a free/OSS plugin that turns Visual Studio into a Python IDE. PTVS supports CPython, IronPython, editing, browsing, Intellisense, mixed Python/C++ debugging...

    Free Open Source Windows Microsoft Visual Studio

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Comment by Thelle
about IDLE · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

This software is not a duplicate after all, as I earlier claimed! But IDLE is bundled with Python... For more see the discussion page: Forum

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Comment by thelivingded
about IDLE · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful Report as spam

Agree with Thelle, IDLE is part of python. This should be deleted.

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Comment by Thelle
about IDLE · Jun 2011 · Helpful Not helpful -1 Helpful Report as spam

This is a copy of Python (Small Python iconPython) and should be deleted...

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