GUI for Python interpreter

[tobeornottobealttfan]

Hello everyone,

I currently use Microsoft VSCode as a python editor alongside Python IDLE for windows for smaller codes.

Now, recently I've found that writing a code in the interpreter is much faster for me as it's runtime becomes similar to my write time.
But the options that I know for python interpreter are Command prompt/Powershell or the Python IDLE (which I prefer). But I still miss the autocompletes of my VSCODE editor. Although the python IDLE interpreter provides with some basic descriptions of lists and functions, I'm looking for a better option.
Can any of you suggest a good app for it?
I know jupyter notebook is a good option but I don't like it very much because I don't know how to customise it.

Thanks.

[Dujith]

You can do this from Visual Studio: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/python/installing-python-interpreters?view=vs-2019

[Kilrah]

Recently came across this: https://codewith.mu/

 

Got highlighting, autocomplete, run, interactive mode and debug in a really simple basic interface...

[Dat Guy]

An "app"? Well, let's stick with desktop applications:

GNU Emacs can do that with company-mode.

[tobeornottobealttfan]

6 hours ago, Kilrah said:

Recently came across this: https://codewith.mu/

 

Got highlighting, autocomplete, run, interactive mode and debug in a really simple basic interface...

How is this any different from VSCode?
I mean opening the link you gave I can only see an Editor. Whereas what I want is an interpreter (intereactive/shell mode) which has those functionalities.

[Kilrah]

Try it maybe?

When you click Run you get your program's output at the bottom and an interactive shell, when you click REPL you get the jupyter notebook style interface.

[tobeornottobealttfan]

8 hours ago, Dujith said:

You can do this from Visual Studio: https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/visualstudio/python/installing-python-interpreters?view=vs-2019

All that is said in this article is to install an interpreter to the VS Code.
It is already done in mine. And I have to use editor to get those autocomplete and other functionalities.
If I want to use the shell mode, I have to type python in the terminal which will open python in standard powershell.

[tobeornottobealttfan]

2 minutes ago, Kilrah said:

Try it maybe?

When you click Run you get your program's output at the bottom and an interactive shell, when you click REPL you get the jupyter notebook style interface.

I mean my VSCode currently does exactly that. The reason I want to switch to the shell mode is that it is interpreting every line as I type which lessens the output time in the first run. Since python can be really sluggish sometimes ,currently I have to use libraries like numba to speed it up.  I would still have to use them even if I switch to the interactive/shell mode but not the first time.

[tobeornottobealttfan]

I found "bpython" but that is not very good on Windows. Also IPython is good but I didn't find that to be better than the shell that comes with IDLE.

[vorticalbox]

It's called a repl.

 

Quick Google netted this https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython

 

[Snowmirage]

Pycharm is fantastic and has a community edition

Also the Atom editor is great, you can get a lot of the functionality with the 1000's of plugins available for it

[tobeornottobealttfan]

3 hours ago, vorticalbox said:

It's called a repl.

 

Quick Google netted this https://github.com/prompt-toolkit/ptpython

 

This one is pretty cool but much like bpython it is somewhat finicky on Windows. 

[tobeornottobealttfan]

3 hours ago, Snowmirage said:

Pycharm is fantastic and has a community edition

Also the Atom editor is great, you can get a lot of the functionality with the 1000's of plugins available for it

Don't know if PyCharm support such advanced interactive/shell mode with autocompletion. 

And I'm not looking for an editor. I'm quite happy with vscode. 

[igormp]

22 hours ago, tobeornottobealttfan said:

I know jupyter notebook is a good option but I don't like it very much because I don't know how to customise it.

You can open jupyter notebooks in vscode. It'll look like so:

[tobeornottobealttfan]

13 minutes ago, igormp said:

You can open jupyter notebooks in vscode. It'll look like so:

That is cool.
Care me to guide to an article on how to do it?
Thanks.

[igormp]

2 hours ago, tobeornottobealttfan said:

That is cool.
Care me to guide to an article on how to do it?
Thanks.

There's not really much to it, just create a .ipynb file and open it with vscode.

[Alexeygridnev1993]

My personal favourite is Spyder. It's the same interactive interpreter as Jupyter underneath, but there is a very convenient variable explorer (especially valuable for looking through Pandas dataframes). The interface and the general idea was mostly copied from RStudio, if you happened to use it, then you'll feel like home. Also, doesn't have all the weird complications like Pycharm.