Spyder

Spyder is a useful integrated development package that can help you in your Python software creation process. It was created in order to provide you with MATLAB-like features in a small but still powerful and easy to use software package. The tool can be particularly useful for development environments focused on research, data analysis and scientific packages in general.

The utility packs an interactive IPython console with extensive debugging and vast workspace so that you can focus on evaluating the code you write in the editor. Moreover, you will be happy to learn that the console supports Matplotlib figures integration and allows you to explore the variables that are created during the execution of a file.

It is worth mentioning that you can edit the variables with other GUI based editors and you can learn more about how they interact with the filesystem from within the IDE. Speaking of modifications, the utility packs a powerful multi-language editor that includes class and function browser.

As you would expect from a development environment, it comes with code analysis functions, horizontal and vertical splitting, goto definitions as well as code completion. You can also perform queries across multiple files, as it supports regular expressions fully.