What are the best IDEs for Python with discounts for students?

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Best IDEs for Python with discounts for students	Price	Price	Cross Platform
-- PyCharm	-	$200/years	Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD
-- Wing IDE	-	US $69-179 annual or US $95-245 perpetual (and 2 free options)	Yes

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PyCharm

Top Pro

Free student access for Professional Edition

With a valid .edu address students can register to use the Professional edition and enjoy all the perks of the full paid version for free. Though it should be mentioned that the with the free student acess you cannot use PyCharm for any commercial purposes, even accepting donations for an open source project. See More

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Can not be integrated with external linters, like Pylint, Flake8, etc.

Sublime Text has SublimeLinter, Vim has Syntastic, PyCharm has nothing. See More

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Price:$200/years

Cross Platform:Windows, macOS, Linux, FreeBSD

Multi Language Support:Yes

Auto Complete:Yes

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Automatically figures put what test to run based on the method the cursor rests at a given time

PyCharm, based on what method or class the cursor rests, can figure out what tests to run and perform them with a keyboard shortcut or two, without breaking up the flow and need to switch to a command line interface. See More

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Odd Autosave "feature", can't be disabled fully

PyCharm automatically saves your files for you, always, without telling you. You can't disable this. There's a way to indicate if a file has been modified via an indicator in the tab (not enabled by default - why?). If you exit it won't ask you if you want to save the modified file. Totally unintuitive and contrary to all other established workflows. It's ok to try something new, but give users the option to have the "normal" behaviour of any other IDE/editor out there. Can be a deal breaker for those that need to know/have control over when they save their files. (PyCharm offers a history to undo the automatic save, but why force a user to undo something with extra steps that shouldn't have happened in the first See More

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Excellent integration with debugging tools

All the debugging can be done inside the IDE. Breakpoints in the code can be added using keyboard shortcuts or the mouse. When the code is executed through the debugger a toolbar pops up with all the relevant context needed for the debugging process. The whole process is smooth and painless and you don't even have to switch windows to do the debugging. See More

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Great for navigating large codebases

PyCharm has amazing code navigation implementations. It supports both goto symbol and goto declaration. The former finds classes, variables, functions, etc by name. While the latter is used by moving the cursor on top of a symbol and by using the mouse or a keyboard combination it finds the declaration of that symbol and takes you there. Both of these features are extremely helpful when consulting large code-bases and when trying to understand an API written by someone else. See More

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Vim mode for people used to Vim commands

IdeaVim supports motion keys, insert mode commands, marks, registers, visual mode commands, vim regexps, key mapping, macros, digraphs, some ex and :set commands. You can find a full comparison in the IdeaVim reference manual. See More

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Great pip support

PyCharm offers great pip integration. When opening a project it automatically checks for a requirements.txt file in the root of the project. If it's found, it checks if all the libraries are available in the interpreter. If one or more libraries are missing, it issues a warning and asks whether you want to install any missing libraries. See More

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Catches run-time information when running the code

PyCharm can leverage run-time information when running your application with the built-in debugger to figure out what types can possibly be passed to which functions, etc. See More

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Free version available

There's a community edition that's free to use. You can also get a 30-day trial of the Professional edition. See More

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Version control integration

PyCharm has CVS, Git, Subversion and Mercurial integration. See More

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Excellent refactoring support

There are many refactoring options including renaming and changing signature across entire projects. It also includes the an ability to preview changes before committing and exclude anything unwanted. See More

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One of the best autocompletion engines around

PyCharm has two types of autocompletion: structural completion and word expansion. Structural autocompletion makes predictions based on its understanding of Python and JavaScript objects, while the latter tries to predict the word currently being typed based on previously typed words. Word expansion also works in comments and docstrings and it's similar to vim's omnicompletion. Both types of autocompletion work extremely well, have little to no problems and are quite fast even when loading suggestions on the go. See More

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Wing IDE

Price:US $69-179 annual or US $95-245 perpetual (and 2 free options)

Cross Platform:Yes

Multi Language Support:Python

Auto Complete:Yes

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What are the best IDEs for Python with discounts for students?

2 Options Considered

PyCharm

My Recommendation for PyCharm

My Recommendation for PyCharm

Free student access for Professional Edition

Can not be integrated with external linters, like Pylint, Flake8, etc.

Automatically figures put what test to run based on the method the cursor rests at a given time

Odd Autosave "feature", can't be disabled fully

Excellent integration with debugging tools

Great for navigating large codebases

Vim mode for people used to Vim commands

Great pip support

Catches run-time information when running the code

Free version available

Version control integration

Excellent refactoring support

One of the best autocompletion engines around

Wing IDE

My Recommendation for Wing IDE

My Recommendation for Wing IDE

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