The first one is for opening the Atom editor, and the second one for installing Atom packages. Work with Git and GitHub directly from Atom with the GitHub package. A text editor is at the core of a developer’s toolbox, but it doesn't usually work alone. First thing’s first, if we’re going to use Atom as our text editor, we better download it. 1) Downloading Atom.

Create new branches, stage and commit, push and pull, resolve merge conflicts, view pull requests and more—all from within your editor. We’ll see an example of both in the following.

Downloading Atom. Here, I’ll look at how you can set up a “python friendly” development environment with Atom, some of the packages that are useful to coding in python, and then take a look at writing some basic code. Most of the packages are freely available and built by open-source communities. Once installed, if you have a Mac or Windows, you’ll have two commands available: atom and apm. Turning Atom Into a Lightweight Python IDE¶. At this time, Facebook has decided to retire their open source efforts on Nuclide, the Atom IDE, and other associated repos. A special thanks goes to Facebook's Nuclide team for providing the Atom IDE user interface package.

Atom is the self-proclaimed “hackable text editor for the 21st Century.” It has a nice modern interface, and is highly customizable yet can also be used productively with minimal setup and configuration. This IDE is developed and maintained by GitHub on Electron framework using web technologies. First, download Atom from the official webpage. Home » Using Atom as a Python editor Using Atom as a Python editor The most basic way to create and run a Python program is to create an empty file with a .py extension, and point to that file from the command line with python filename.py. Edit a Python file and use Atom’s Autocomplete Both Nuclide and Atom IDE are developed by Facebook and supported by an open source community. It supports packages developed in Node.js and Git version control. Atom is an open-source cross-platform IDE.