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List of Python software

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionSep 4, 2026
Entity authorityQ6595251 ↗
Source-derived summary

The Python programming language is actively used by many people, both in industry and academia, for a wide variety of purposes.

Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) for Python

Atom — an open-source cross-platform IDE with autocomplete, help and more Python features under package extensions.

Codelobster — a cross-platform IDE for various languages, including Python.

Colab — Jupyter notebook online integrated development environment developed by Google.

EasyEclipse — an open-source IDE for Python and other languages.

Eclipse — with the Pydev plug-in. Eclipse supports many other languages as well.

Emacs, with the built-in python-mode.

Eric — an IDE for Python and Ruby.

Geany — IDE for Python development and other languages.

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Editorial reviewA practical starting point whose main value is the path it opens into stronger specialist and primary sources. The current 109-word lead offers orientation but no explicit four-digit date, so chronology should not be assumed. The selected authority fields contribute no independent date. Its strongest next move is a source search built around List, Python and software.
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Named sources, stable identifiers and responsible institutions provide the strongest route from overview to verifiable evidence. The source revision retrieved here is dated Sep 4, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q6595251. None of the 0 selected statements returned an explicit reference.

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This entry incorporates text from “List of Python software” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.