Pyzo

Website: pyzo.org (opens in a new tab)

Description

Pyzo is a cross-platform Python IDE focused on interactivity and introspection, which makes it very suitable for scientific computing. Its practical design is aimed at simplicity and efficiency.

It consists of two main components, the editor and the shell, and uses a set of pluggable tools to help the programmer in various ways. Some example tools are source structure, file browser, interactive help, workspace ...

Pyzo is written in (pure) Python 3 and uses the Qt GUI toolkit. Binaries are provided for all major operating systems. After installing Pyzo, it can be used to execute code on any Python version available on your system (Python 2.7 - 3.x, including PyPy).

Running Pyzo from pre-built binaries

We provide binaries (opens in a new tab) for Windows, Linux and MacOS. Linux users are recommended to run Pyzo from source because of possible Qt library incompatibilities.

Running Pyzo from source

To run Pyzo from source, you need a Python interpreter with one of the following Qt bindings: PySide2, PySide6, PyQt5, PyQt6. If you do not have such a Qt wrapper then install one from https://pypi.org via the Python package manager, e.g.: python3 -m pip install pyside6

Linux users might do this via their Linux package manager, e.g.: sudo apt-get install python3-pyqt5

Download the source code archive from the releases page (opens in a new tab) or the newest development version (opens in a new tab) and extract the contents into a folder. Pyzo can then be run from source by executing the pyzolauncher.py (opens in a new tab) script inside that folder, for example: python3 /path/to/pyzo-source/pyzolauncher.py

To use a specific Qt wrapper, set the environment variable QT_API to the name of the wrapper package, e.g. pyqt6. Linux users can add Pyzo to the desktop environment by copying and customizing the desktop-file (opens in a new tab).

Running Pyzo as a module

Running Pyzo as a Python module is similar to running Pyzo from source, as described in the previous chapter. Instead of downloading the source code archive from GitHub, it can be installed from https://pypi.org via the Python package manager, e.g.: python3 -m pip install pyzo

To run Pyzo, execute: python3 -m pyzo

More information

• main website: https://pyzo.org
• code repository: https://github.com/pyzo/pyzo
• issues: https://github.com/pyzo/pyzo/issues