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Add to SafariWhen comparing PyScripter vs Kdevelop with kdev-python plugin, the Slant community recommends PyScripter for most people. In the question“What are the best free IDEs for Python?” PyScripter is ranked 18th while Kdevelop with kdev-python plugin is ranked 21st. The most important reason people chose PyScripter is:
PyScripter is a lightweight Python IDE.
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Pros
Pro Lightweight
PyScripter is a lightweight Python IDE.
Pro Easy to use
Covers the needs of advanced users (thread debugging, unit testing etc.).
Pro Superb for interactively developing scripts
When you run a program, the context is automatically available in the Python interpreter afterwards, without having to set breakpoints.
Pro Easy to set up
No configurations needed. Just download and code.
Pro Best in industry syntax highlighing
Kdevelop has very unique syntax highlighting. It's very addicting - other IDE will soon look monochrome to you.
Pro Fast code completion
Kdevelop indices all your classes, methods, functions and global variables in memory, which makes class/method lookups to complete in no time.
Pro Very lean on CPU and RAM
Even quite large projects occupy only several hundreds megabytes of RAM. Try that in Eclipse...
Cons
Con Windows only
Available for Windows only.
Con Noticeably unstable since v.4
Frequently hangs/freezes, esp. when debugging.
Con Refactoring is not that easy
In Pyscripter, refactoring pretty much leans on traditional dumb find-and-replace.
Con Only preliminary support for Windows
The Windows version is still in alpha.
