Others Looking for local basic and lean Python IDE. Any recommendations?

[SpasmJack]

I am looking for a simple (and local) python IDE.
Basicly a single screen easy-to-use GUI: code left, result right. No fancy (analytical) tools needed besides variable and objects monitoring. Offline, no AI, no subscriptions, no sales offers, no spyware, no bullshit.
And free since I'm an amateur/hobbyist diving into a 3rd language.
Use: Quick (relatively simple) code execution to test (parts of) interface, algorithms and (game) objects.

Any suggestions? What do you have installed if so?

Thanks in advance

 

[osanaiko]

VS Code with the right plugins should be the go.
Get a plugin for python syntax, and a plugin "

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" which you can setup to trigger an external wrapper script on every save. With the right config you can make it show the output window and clear it on each save.

 

[Chiakipus]

Strictly speaking, the most simple python IDE for rapid iteration is

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, which is part of Python itself. Open it once and you'll see why nobody uses it.

It's hard to not recommend something from the larger VS Code ecosystem for newbies these days, since it's by far the smoothest starting experience. If you're worried about AI/spyware/telemetry,

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should still work.

What do you have installed if so?

vim with a bazillion plugins (mainly vim-lsp and LSP servers), but newbie friendly it ain't. (And the whole concept of LSP was invented by VSCode, so any LSP server will work best in VSCode anyway…)

The other notable alternative would be PyCharm, which I used for a long time professionally (before LSPs were a thing, vim was rather limited when wrangling large projects), but that's the opposite of plain and easy to use, and the full version is a subscription. (Though the free version already does a lot.)