IEP – Python IDE

Last Updated on July 11, 2021

Interactive Editor for Python (IEP) is a cross-platform Python IDE focused on interactivity and introspection, which makes it very suitable for scientific computing. Its practical design is aimed at simplicity and efficiency.

IEP consists of two main components, the editor and the shell, and uses a set of pluggable tools to help the programmer in various ways. Some example tools are source structure, project manager, interactive help, and workspace.

IEP can integrate the event loop of five different GUI toolkits, therefore enabling interactive plotting with e.g. Visvis or Matplotlib. IEP is written in Python 3 and Qt.

Features include:

• Highly customizable.
• Powerful introspection (autocompletion, calltips, interactive help).
• Various ways to run code interactively or to run a file as a script.
• Shells run in a subprocess and can therefore be interrupted or killed.
• Multiple shells can be used at the same time, and can be of different Python versions (from v2.4 to 3.x, including pypy).
• Support for using several GUI toolkits interactively: PySide, PyQt4, wx, fltk, GTK, Tk.
• Magic commands similar to IPython.
• Matlab-style cell notation to mark code sections (by starting a line with ##).
• Full Unicode support in both editor and shell.

Website: www.pyzo.org
Support:
Developer: IEP Development Team
License: BSD License

IEP is written in Python. Learn Python with our recommended free books and free tutorials.

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