PythonTooling

Python Essential Tooling

See also Awesome Python.

Build Tools

• virtualenv – A tool to create isolated Python environments, that has its own installation directories, and that doesn’t share libraries with other virtualenv environments (and optionally doesn’t access the globally installed libraries either).
• PyInvoke – Add-on to setuptools, without any strong coupling to it, for easy custom build automation written directly in Python. And yes, it's pre-1.0, but you freeze your requirements anyway, don't you?
• Packaging setuptools, twine, devpi, pip.

Testing

• pytest – Besides nose, this is the tool people use. And it integrates seamlessly with tox.

See also PythonTesting.

Code Quality

• Coverage
• PyLint
• Flake8 / PyFlakes / PEP8
• PyChecker

Documentation

• Sphinx – Sphinx is the golden standard, and often even used by non-Python projects.

IDEs

• Terminal:
  • bpython – A fancy interface to the Python interpreter in form of a text-based IDE.
  • ptpython – A better Python REPL, built on top of the prompt_toolkit library.
• NinjaIDE
• PyCharm
• IPython
• PyDev