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TextWrangler is an all-purpose text and code editor for macOS. TextWrangler is now BBEdit.

PyCharm is an integrated development environment (IDE) designed and developed by JetBrains specifically for the programming language Python. With PyCharm you can boost code quality and write maintainable code while maintain standards with PEP8 checks, testing assistance and smart refactoring. PyCharm also provides thorough intellisense with smart code completion, code inspection and real-time error highlighting. PyCharm is released as a commercial software but can be obtained for free as PyCharm Community Edition with a minimal limited feature set that close resembles the commercial version.

IPython is a powerful, free and open-source interactive shell used for interactive computing. It's an alternative to the Python interpreter that provides improvements over its default counterpart. These improvements include syntax highlight, proper indentation, documentation, and much more. With iPython, you can use Jupyter notebooks to create reports that contain live code, charts, and more interesting things for data science and data visualisation.

A free and open-source IDE for macOS, Linux, and Windows developed by GitHub Inc. The application is build on the Electron framework and provides a wide eco-system of add-ons that can be used to extend the IDE further. Atom is loved by developers across the globe.

A free and open-source lightweight GUI text editor using Scintilla and GTK with basic IDE features. Geany is designed and developed with performance in mind, and provides limited dependency on separate packages or external libraries on Linux. Geany is available for a wide variety of operating systems including BSD, Linux, macOS, Solaris and Windows.

A loved text editor and IDE for web developers and designers that provides unmatched responsiveness. Sublime Text provides a wide selection of editing command including indenting or un-indenting, paragraph reformatting, line joining , multiple selections, regular expression search and replace, incremental find as you type, and preserve case on replace. The IDE can also be extended with community built packages to further improve language detection, auto-complete and intellisense features.