Best IDE for Backtrader
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Hi all, can you please recommend the best IDE for developing backtrader strategies? debugging, plotting etc.
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VS Code.
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I use PyCharm Pro.
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Thanks both, I have previously used both IDE's, PC for python and VS for .net.
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Wouldn't recommend PyCharm although I use it myself.
BackTrader is a bag of tricks with a hack on top and PyCharm's tools don't play well with that. Half of your code will be highlighted as problematic, autocomplete rarely works and you can't ask which parameters a function takes.
If I wasn't so used to PyCharm, I'd probably go with Sublime Text.
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I'm getting some red squiggles in VSCode, i'm using pylint.
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@kaya I found
pylint
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Does anyone use Spyder?
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@ab_trader said in Best IDE for Backtrader:
@kaya I found pylint quite useless, a lot of false errors marked. But maybe it needs more extensive configuration.
Which one do you recommend @ab_trader ?
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@kaya I don't use any linter for python.
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atom.io , with some plugins for python installed,
linter, linter-python, autocomplete-python, bracket-colorizer , file-icons, minimap, python-autopep8