Best IDE for Backtrader

[kaya]

Hi all, can you please recommend the best IDE for developing backtrader strategies? debugging, plotting etc.

[ab_trader]

VS Code.

[Nikolai]

I use PyCharm Pro.

[kaya]

Thanks both, I have previously used both IDE's, PC for python and VS for .net.

[Developing Coder]

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.

[kaya]

I'm getting some red squiggles in VSCode, i'm using pylint.

[ab_trader]

@kaya I found pylint quite useless, a lot of false errors marked. But maybe it needs more extensive configuration.

[kaya]

Does anyone use Spyder?

[kaya]

@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 ?

[ab_trader]

@kaya I don't use any linter for python.

[Alex_CL]

atom.io , with some plugins for python installed,
linter, linter-python, autocomplete-python, bracket-colorizer , file-icons, minimap, python-autopep8