Ninja IDE vs PyCharm Community Edition

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.

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• 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.

PyCharm has CVS, Git, Subversion and Mercurial integration.

PyCharm includes sophisticated heuristics for determining what each variable type is and providing autocompletion suggestions for them.

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.

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.

PyCharm supports cefpython and electron.js (with c bindings).

JetBrains offers a Student Pack, which gives you a student license and access to the pro features of selected products such as PyCharm, IntelliJ IDEA and Php Storm.