Hands-On Software Engineering with Python

Geany

Geany is a lightweight code editor and IDE with support for a number of languages, including Python. It's available as an installable application across all the major operating systems, though it has some features that aren't available on Windows. Geany is available as a free download from www.geany.org:

• Large-project support: Fair
• Refactoring support: Mediocre
• Language exploration: Mediocre
• Code execution: Good
• Bells and whistles: Good

This is a screenshot of Geany showing one of several project plugins' sidebars, an open code file, project settings, and search and replace windows:

Geany's interface makes working with multiple concurrently ...