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Hello, I am looking for a free python editor for my Mac, I mean a truly free one, not those bogus "free" trial then ask for money.
does anyone have a suggestion? Thanks.

Im pretty sure that all the IDE's are compatible with Mac.

I also cant think of any off the top of my head that require money to purchase at all without giving a permanent free option. Most ask for money, but most give a free option as well. The bells and whistles that they give you with the paid version isnt even worth it to consider paying for it. I would never pay for an IDE, never have, never will.

https://wiki.python.org/moin/PythonEditors

Technically you dont even need an IDE at all. You could just use a terminal and Vim or Emacs.

VS code is good,a quick review.
PyCharm free community

Try IDLE

https://www.python.org/

That's fully free and works on Mac
Just make sure you download the Mac build

I really like Ananconda, and within that use Spyder as my IDE thought if doing it over might use VSCode. Anaconda will manage Jupyter Lab and Jupyter Notebook, for notebook style programming (popular especially in the data science world), as well as Spyder, VSCode, and other options. Anaconda's environment management is great.

Now, if you want a cross platform IDE that works on your Mac as well as your iPad, and a Chromebook and don't mind using the notebook style, colab.research.google.com

(May-20-2020, 01:16 PM)chesschaser Wrote: [ -> ]Try IDLE

IDLE is really poor substitute for IDE