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Hi all,

I want to decide on which IDE to use on my Windows 7 machine for Python 3.6
I know until recently, PyCharm would have been the best option but in my case I want to use PyCharm Community Edition.
Also, recently Microsoft's open source IDE Visual Studio Code has become very popular among developers.
It was listed as most used IDE in Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018 by all respondents and web developers.
But I know it is not a Python focused IDE.

So my question is between "PyCharm Community Edition" and "Visual Studio Code" which one is better IDE for Python development?
I am an intermediate level Python developer and for now will use the IDE mostly for Web Development.

please forgive me if this was already discussed here but I was unable to find it using search.

(May-30-2018, 03:40 PM)python300 Wrote: [ -> ]So my question is between "PyCharm Community Edition" and "Visual Studio Code" which one is better IDE for Python development?
I am an intermediate level Python developer and for now will use the IDE mostly for Web Development.

Both are good for Python development.
VS Code is better when it's comes to Web Development,as support for HTML,CSS and JavaScript is the best out there.

VS Code has also put a lot into to make Python work great on there editor.
VS Code Goes All In on Python
So they hired Don Jayamanne the maker of Python extension.
It's popular with 11.1 millions downloads.

A quick look at my setup with a Flask test project.
Look at IntelliSense kick in when i take mouse over app.run(),code doc explore is one of the strong point.

Thank you for your response buran and snippsat.
I am going with VS Code.

I would choose PyCharm Comunity.

Thank you for your response wavic.
I would love to know the other perspective.
Can you please share benefits that you see with PyCharm over VS Code?
I am yet to board the bus so it could still be beneficial to me.

I will be completely honest even if it will bring my dark side to the light.
I don't use PyCharm or VS Code. So I can't compare them at all.
I am a bit of fanatic. I just don't trust Microsoft. Why? It's out of the topic.
So, my opinion is totally biased.