Spyder vs Ninja IDE

Released under the MIT license.

Spyder can plot graphs and provide the list of all variables.

Pylint integration enables to check the code for PEP8 style guide and detect errors.

Spyder's autocomplete features are made possible by a library called rope which gives Spyder powerful autocompletion.

Spyder (formerly Pydee) has support for all of the major operating platforms - Linux, Mac, and even Windows.

Aside from being an open sourced, actively developed IDE, vim key-binding support is also available. If you remember Pydee - this is it, albeit with a new name.

Dynamic variable explorer with editor and visualizer

Plugins can easily be created to add features that you may need but are otherwise missing from the IDE.

Has out of the box support for virtualenv, which can be added when first starting a project or later through the settings.

Has an embedded python console built in.

It is possible to run the project or any file opened in the editor with just one click.

Allows you to search one or more words, a regular expression, etc.

• GNU/Linux
• OS X
• Windows

NInja IDE highlights both static and PEP8 errors in a file. With each type of error having its own icon.

Also supports rendering HTML files currently loaded in the editor.

Allows you to manage projects, saving descriptions and information about them and letting the user to perform file management related task inside the IDE itself.

Code locator allows quick and direct access to any file, function or class inside one of the project by simply pressing a few keys. Pressing Ctrl + K open a popup over a text field, where you can type the name of what you want.

You can easily see all functions, classes and attributes in the current program.