Integrated Development Environment is abbreviated as IDE, which is a dedicated program to develop softwares. While choosing the most suitable IDE for your python based application development project, we look for the following features:   Availability of build, execution, and debugging tools An editor designed to handle code seamlessly Some form of source control   Also, if you're to decide on an IDE for the project, you must keep the following factors in mind; the IDE must help you save and reload the code files, offer the ability to run code from within the environment, extend debugging support, highlight syntax, and also allow automatic code formatting. PyCharm, Thonny, and Spyder are a few Python-specific editors and IDEs. Further, Atom, Sublime Text, and Eclipse + PyDev are general IDEs with Python support.