Eric Python IDE

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Eric Python IDE

Eric4 Python IDE running in KDE SC 4
Developer(s) Detlev Offenbach
Stable release 4.5.14 for Python2 and 5.3.6 for Python3 / August 19, 2013 (2013-08-19)
Written in Python
Operating system Cross-platform
Type Integrated Development Environment
License GPLv3
Website eric-ide.python-projects.org

Eric is a free integrated development environment for the Python and Ruby programming languages. Eric4 is the variant for Python 2 and eric5 is the one for Python 3.

By design, it acts as a front end for several programs, for example the QScintilla editor widget, the python language interpreter, Rope for code refactoring, Python Profiler for code profiling. Any functionality that is not required does not have to be installed. It is written using the PyQt Python bindings for the Qt GUI toolkit. It is extensible via a plug-in mechanism. The eric plug-in repository provides various kinds of extensions and is accessible from within the IDE.

The main features are a project manager, an editor with syntax highlighting, debugging, profiling, running python code with support for command-line parameters, unit testing, user interface design, a console for program output and a task manager (self-updating TODO list).

Several allusions are made to the British comedy group Monty Python, which the Python programming language is named after. Eric alludes to Eric Idle, a member of the group, and IDLE (Python), the standard python IDE shipped with most distributions.

Debugger

Eric includes an integrated graphical debugger which supports both interactive probing while suspended and auto breaking on exceptions.

See also

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  • List of integrated development environments for Python

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