Python Memory Management and Tips Transcripts
Chapter: Setup and tools
Lecture: Our code editor
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If you want to follow along exactly what I'm doing, I'm going to be using PyCharm so you should use PyCharm too.
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It's a fantastic tool for writing Python code and exploring it. However, if you don't want to, you can use other editors as well.
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That's fine. So, if you're going to use PyCharm, I recommend you just get the latest version and use that. They offer
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two versions. They offer the PyCharm Community Edition and The PyCharm Pro Edition.
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For what we're doing this course the community addition, the free open source edition is totally fine. There's one step where I say
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"let's see the CPU profile graph in PyCharm" and we spend about one minute on that.
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That requires the Pro Edition, which you can just look at the picture, you don't have to be able to run it yourself.
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Other than that, you're gonna be able to do everything with the free, open source
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Pycharm Community Edition. So, there's no real reason to not use it other than you just want to use another editor.
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I think this is a great one and you'll see me using it throughout the course. The best way to get PyCharm is to go to the JetBrains toolbox and get
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that installed and then use that to install either PyCharm Pro or PyCharm Community or both, and this will keep it up to date and let you know
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when there's new versions and let you roll back to different versions. It's a much nicer
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way to work with PyCharm and the JetBrains applications rather than just installing it directly. If you don't want to use PyCharm, which is fine,
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I recommend that you use Visual Studio Code. That's the other really good editor these days.
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Those two have, like 85%, 90% of the market share at this point. From what I can tell the recent surveys and so on,
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this is a great one. Just be sure that you install the Python extension or it's not going to do much for you.
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And you get that by clicking on this little button here and then the Python extension
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is the most popular one. Looks like it's been downloaded 55 million times when I took this screenshot, and I know it's much higher than that right now.
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So, two editor options, PyCharm, Visual Studio Code, PyCharm community free version will totally work for this course.