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Choosing an editor or IDE

Choosing an editor or IDE - Python Tutorial

From the course: Learning Python

Choosing an editor or IDE

- [Instructor] There are a lot of great tools out there for working with the Python programming language, and in this course, you can use any code editor that you want. I'm going to be using Visual Studio Code from Microsoft. It has great support for Python editing, and it's free, and it runs on Mac, Windows and Linux. It also has a wide variety of plugins available, which will help when working with Python. So if you want to use VS Code along with me in this course, then download it from code.visualstudio.com, just come to the site right here, click on this little Download button, and it'll download the proper version for your operating system and then go ahead and install it. Now again, just want to remind you that VS Code is not a requirement, you can use any editor that you want. In a separate video, we'll see how to run the example files directly from the terminal. So you can go that route if you want to, or if you're…

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