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What is PyCharm? The Most Intelligent Python IDE. PyCharm’s smart code editor provides first-class support for Python, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, CSS, popular template languages and more. Take advantage of language-aware code completion, error detection, and on-the-fly code fixes!.

What is Spyder? The Scientific Python Development Environment. It is a powerful scientific environment written in Python, for Python, and designed by and for scientists, engineers and data analysts.

PyCharm and Spyder belong to "Integrated Development Environment" category of the tech stack.

Spyder is an open source tool with 4.56K GitHub stars and 921 GitHub forks. Here's a link to Spyder's open source repository on GitHub.

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What is PyCharm?

PyCharm’s smart code editor provides first-class support for Python, JavaScript, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, CSS, popular template languages and more. Take advantage of language-aware code completion, error detection, and on-the-fly code fixes!

What is Spyder?

It is a powerful scientific environment written in Python, for Python, and designed by and for scientists, engineers and data analysts.

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Why do developers choose PyCharm?

Why do developers choose Spyder?

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Smart auto-completion
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Intelligent code analysis
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Powerful refactoring
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Virtualenv integration
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Git integration
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Support for Django
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Multi-database integration

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What are some alternatives to PyCharm and Spyder?

Atom

At GitHub, we're building the text editor we've always wanted. A tool you can customize to do anything, but also use productively on the first day without ever touching a config file. Atom is modern, approachable, and hackable to the core. We can't wait to see what you build with it.

IntelliJ IDEA

Out of the box, IntelliJ IDEA provides a comprehensive feature set including tools and integrations with the most important modern technologies and frameworks for enterprise and web development with Java, Scala, Groovy and other languages.

Jupyter

The Jupyter Notebook is a web-based interactive computing platform. The notebook combines live code, equations, narrative text, visualizations, interactive dashboards and other media.

Visual Studio Code

Build and debug modern web and cloud applications. Code is free and available on your favorite platform - Linux, Mac OSX, and Windows.

Anaconda

A free and open-source distribution of the Python and R programming languages for scientific computing, that aims to simplify package management and deployment. Package versions are managed by the package management system conda.

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PyCharm

PyCharm is our preferred IDE for python apps, for all its simple awesomeness in writing code, as well as the ease with which you can run a Django shell, a web server, or run tests.