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Johan Mutsaerts

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Apr 9, 2017, 5:51:01 AM4/9/17

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I am retooling for Python development on GAE, having used MS Visual Studio before. I looked through the forum but the most recent thread on Python IDE's dates from 2013, so I thought I'd ask for an update ...

Toolkit choices I have made so far: GAE Standard Environment, Datastore (NDB), Flask/Jinja2 framework. Now looking for the right IDE: Atom ? PyDev, IntelliJ or PyCharm ? Eclipse ? IntelliJ ?

Open Source (free) is what I am looking for to get things started, that is before the money comes rolling in ... ;-) Can I use the 'community editions' of the commercial tools with the choices I have made earlier ? and then upgrade later ? or are they just 'teasers' and you need to buy them anyway to be productive ? From the web pages, I can see that e.g frameworks are only supported in the commercial editions ?

What's the practical benefit of using a full IDE over e.g. Atom when developing in Python for GAE ?

TIA & BR,

Johan

Adam (Cloud Platform Support)

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Apr 9, 2017, 5:21:19 PM4/9/17

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Personally my usage tends to cascade as Eclipse (PyDev) -> Pluma/Gedit -> Vim depending on where I am focused on at the moment. I use Eclipse because I also do a lot of stuff in Java, but I've been leaning towards Atom more for non-Java stuff. Plugins give Atom full IDE-like functionality (it's better than Eclipse for Python and JavaScript).