What’s an free bare bones IDE for Python that works smoothly out of the box?

• Visual Studio Code

  2,840 158,095 10.0 TypeScript

  Visual Studio Code

  

The funny part is that you do not share the first page of the official website: "Free. Built on open source. Runs everywhere."

• Geany

  91 2,989 9.2 C

  A fast and lightweight IDE

  

When I installed my IDE I just wanted something lightweight, so I went with Geany. I've been using it for years without trouble.

• WorkOS

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  The modern identity platform for B2B SaaS. The APIs are flexible and easy-to-use, supporting authentication, user identity, and complex enterprise features like SSO and SCIM provisioning.

  

• vscodium

  535 23,687 9.5 Shell

  binary releases of VS Code without MS branding/telemetry/licensing

  

vscodium > Visual Studio Code

• thonny

  176 2,880 9.5 Python

  Python IDE for beginners

  

VSCode is good but I wouldn't describe it as "barebones". I recommend Thonny. It's a Python IDE specifically for beginners.

• lapce

  178 32,249 9.6 Rust

  Lightning-fast and Powerful Code Editor written in Rust

  

• upm

  713 1,036 9.0 Go

  ⠕ Universal Package Manager - Python, Node.js, Ruby, Emacs Lisp.

  

PyCharm is a great product but definitely 100% not bare bones. Use that later on so you don't get bogged down in configuration. Even simpler is repl.it, that way you can just focus on the code. Just a web app but over team work your way over to vscode which is by far the standard these days.

• YouCompleteMe

  70 25,262 7.7 Python

  A code-completion engine for Vim

  

YouCompleteMe. A pretty good autocompletion plugin, though vim does have its own, somewhat useful built-in auto completion that requires more keystrokes

• InfluxDB

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• vim-awesome

  57 2,012 0.0 Python

  Awesome Vim plugins from across the universe

  

Vim Awesome. This is probs the best resource for text editor related plugins for vim. Browse around the site and see what looks like it would work for you. Fugitive, NerdTree, Syntastic, and surround are pretty great for utility.

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