Python IDEs on the Raspberry Pi

[microphone_head]

Greetings,

I would like to hear from members that have user experience of Python IDEs on the Raspberry Pi. I have particular interest in learning about Python IDEs with code completion on the Raspberry Pi.

Ideally the Python IDE should provide a good coding environment with code completion .

I've installed a few IDEs with mixed results , so I thought I would try and touch base with other Python members to see if I could find out more.

[buran]

I've installed a few IDEs with mixed results

which IDEs did you try?

[wavic]

Try this

[microphone_head]

I've tried a few like:

Eric Python
Spyder
Ninja
Geany
gEcrit

I loved the Eric Python IDE because of all the extra bells and whistles but I couldn't get the API autocomplete to work , that was a deal breaker for me. I got Ninja to work with autocomplete but i didn't come with code analysis for redundant variables.

[buran]

didn't try it, but check this one: https://code.headmelted.com/#platforms
As it states: Community builds of VS Code for Chromebooks, Raspberry Pi and other ARM and Intel systems

And VS Code is definitely worth a try - very good IDE

[snippsat]

Mu is now popular for Raspberry Pi.
As mention VS Code look at VS Code from start

[microphone_head]

Mu is now popular for Raspberry Pi.
As mention VS Code look at VS Code from start

I just to tried to install Mu, looked at the website and went through the install procedure, but I don't think the first portion of the installation worked properly because the website instructions suggested a new short-cut icon would be created on my [Preference] menu bar but it didn't happen . Followed the alternate instruction of installing from the command line but it returned with the following warning:

Error:
Reading package lists... Done
Building dependency tree       
Reading state information... Done
E: Unable to locate package mu-editor

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Mu is now popular for Raspberry Pi.
As mention VS Code look at VS Code from start

This is a wierd one.

I tried to install Visual Studio Code on my Raspberry Pi 2+B.

First I visited the website:
https://code.headmelted.com/#platforms

Followed the APT instructions for Debain, by opening a terminal and entering:
wget -O - https://code.headmelted.com/installers/apt.sh

It came back saying everthing had installed OK, and that a short-cut should be available:

Output:
--2018-10-19 01:14:05--  https://code.headmelted.com/installers/apt.sh
Resolving code.headmelted.com (code.headmelted.com)... 104.27.187.80, 104.27.186.80, 2606:4700:30::681b:ba50, ...
Connecting to code.headmelted.com (code.headmelted.com)|104.27.187.80|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: unspecified [application/x-sh]
Saving to: ‘STDOUT’

-                       [<=>                   ]       0  --.-KB/s             #!/bin/sh

echo "Detecting architecture...";
MACHINE_MTYPE="$(uname -m)";
ARCH="${MACHINE_MTYPE}";
REPO_VENDOR="headmelted";

echo "Ensuring curl is installed";
apt-get install -y curl;

if [ "$ARCH" = "amd64" ] || [ "$ARCH" = "i386" ]; then REPO_VENDOR="microsoft"; fi;

echo "Architecture detected as $ARCH...";

if [ "${REPO_VENDOR}" = "headmelted" ]; then
  gpg_key=https://packagecloud.io/headmelted/codebuilds/gpgkey;
  repo_name="stretch";
  repo_entry="deb https://packagecloud.io/headmelted/codebuilds/debian/ ${repo_name} main";
  code_executable_name="code-oss";
else
  gpg_key=https://packages.microsoft.com/keys/microsoft.asc;
  repo_name="stable"
  repo_entry="deb https://packages.microsoft.com/repos/vscode ${repo_name} main";
  code_executable_name="code-insiders";
fi;

echo "Retrieving GPG key [${REPO_VENDOR}] ($gpg_key)...";
curl $gpg_key | gpg --dearmor > /etc/apt/trusted.gpg.d/${REPO_VENDOR}_vscode.gpg;

echo "Removing any previous entry to headmelted repository";
rm -rf /etc/apt/sources.list.d/headmelted_codebuilds.list;
rm -rf /etc/apt/sources.list.d/codebuilds.list;
  
echo "Installing [${REPO_VENDOR}] repository...";
echo "${repo_entry}" > /etc/apt/sources.list.d/${REPO_VENDOR}_vscode.list;
  
echo "Updating APT cache..."
apt-get update -yq;
echo "Done!"

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
  echo "Repository install complete.";
else
  echo "Repository install failed.";
  exit 1;
fi;

echo "Installing Visual Studio Code from [${repo_name}]...";
apt-get install -t ${repo_name} -y ${code_executable_name};
#apt-get install -t ${repo_name} -y --allow-unauthenticated ${code_executable_name};

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
  echo "Visual Studio Code install complete.";
else
  echo "Visual Studio Code install failed.";
  exit 1;
fi;

echo "Installing git...";
apt-get install -y git;

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
  echo "git install complete.";
else
  echo "git install failed.";
  exit 1;
fi;

echo "Installing any dependencies that may have been missed...";
apt-get install -y -f;

if [ $? -eq 0 ]; then
  echo "Missed dependency install complete.";
else
  echo "Missed dependency install failed.";
  exit 1;
fi;

echo "

Installation complete!

You can start code at any time by calling \"${code_executable_name}\" within a terminal.

A shortcut should also now be available in your desktop menus (depending on your distribution).

";

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2018-10-19 01:14:06 (1.24 MB/s) - written to stdout [2349]

I checked to see if pip was installed but that looks good :

Output:
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ python -V
Python 2.7.9
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ python3 -V
Python 3.4.2
pi@raspberrypi ~ $ pip -V
pip 1.5.6 from /usr/lib/python2.7/dist-packages (python 2.7)

[microphone_head]

RE: SPE (Stani's Python Editor)

I installed this IDE, its pretty good, looks a bit like Geany. Its got all the elements I would like to see but I think the developer needs to put some more work into it. The code completion is there (90%, doesn't seem to have any completion for local routine), And it even has a code checker.

Works on small programs, but I tried it on one of my projects and it said it had an invalid syntax (reslulting in the user being returned to the console with an exception). But when I use the default python IDE it works with no errors .

I tried using the Find & Replace and I was surprised to see that it didn't work (maybe I need to invest more time to configure it for that feature to work, not sure).