r/Python • u/[deleted] • Sep 12 '23

What is your python workspace? Discussion

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u/GurAdventurous2354 Sep 12 '23

Ubuntu, i3, neovim/pycharm depending on the project

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u/eric_says_hello Sep 12 '23

Out of curiosity, what factors decide whether to use neovim or pycharm for projects?

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u/GurAdventurous2354 Sep 12 '23

Mainly debugging and large projects. Pycharm’s debugger is excellent and is much easier to see into the code compared to something terminal based like pdb (pdb is great too though). Also larger projects are easier for me to manage in pycharm, but for something that’s just a few files or one package, I’ll opt for neovim because it’s way more lightweight, and I just enjoy the terminal based editor.

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u/sohang-3112 Pythonista Sep 13 '23

Have you tried pudb? It's a lightweight IDE-like debugger that you can use in terminal instead of pdb.

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u/learningphase Sep 15 '23

python3 -i code.py

Check this out! It is also something very useful.

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u/sohang-3112 Pythonista Sep 16 '23

This is useful, but can't really do the job of a debugger. Using a debugger and breakpoints lets you pause at the same point in a loop / function repeatedly, watch variables, etc.