News

Version 3.0 final is out! Check the download section and release notes.

Introduction

IEP (pronounced as 'eep') 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.

IEP is written in Python 3 and Qt. Binaries are available for Windows, Linux, and Mac. For questions, there is a discussion group.

Two components + tools

IEP 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, project manager, interactive help, workspace ...

Some key features

(see Features for a more complete list):

• Powerful introspection (autocompletion, calltips, interactive help): uses information from both the interactive shell and the source code.
• Allows various ways to run code interactively or to run a file as a script.
• The shells runs in a subprocess and can therefore be interrupted or killed.
• Multiple shells can be used at the same time, and can be of different Python versions (from v2.4 to 3.x)
• Support for using several GUI toolkits interactively: PySide, PyQt4, wx, fltk, GTK, Tk.
• Supports magic commands similar to IPython.
• Full Unicode support in both editor and shell.
• Various handy tools, plus the ability to make your own.
• Matlab-style cell notation to mark code sections (by starting a line with '##').
• Highly customizable using the menu.

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