# Features #

  * **Syntax Highlighting Editor**
    * Unicode based
    * Full support for encoded Python source files
    * Code folding
    * Brace Highlighting
    * Python source code utilities ((un)tabify, (un)comment, (un)indent, etc.)
    * Code completion and call tips
    * Code and debugger hints
    * Syntax checking as you type
    * Context sensitive help on Python keywords
    * Parameterized Code Templates
    * Accept files dropped from Explorer
    * File change notification
    * Converting line breaks (Windows, Unix, Mac)
    * Print preview and print syntax highlighted Python code
    * Syntax highlighting of HTML, XML and CSS files
    * Split view file editing
    * Firefox-like search and replace
    * [Side-by-side file editing](Screenshot10)
    * Work with remote files
    * [Multi-caret and multi-selection editing](https://pyscripter.blogspot.com/2024/10/teaser-multi-caret-editing-is-coming-to.html)
    * [Annotated scrollbars](https://pyscripter.blogspot.com/2024/10/)  
  * **Integrated Python Interpreter**
    * Code Completion
    * Call Tips
    * Command History
    * Execute scripts without saving them
  * **Integrated Python Debugging**
    * Remote Python Debugger
    * [Thread debugging](https://pyscripter.blogspot.gr/2018/03/thread-debugging.html)
    * Call Stack
    * Variables Window
    * Watches Window
    * Conditional breakpoints
    * Debugger hints
    * Thread debugging
    * Post-mortem analysis
    * Can run or debug files without first saving them
  * **Built-in integration with LLM models**
    * [Assistant](Assistant) functionality in the editor (Suggest, Find Bugs, Optimize, etc.)
    * [Chat window](ChatWindow) for interacting with LLM.
    * [Openai](https://openai.com/), [Gemini](https://gemini.google.com/), [Grok](https://grok.com/), [Deepseek](https://www.deepseek.com/) and local LLM models supported 
  * **Editor Views**
    * Disassembly
    * HTML Documentation (pydoc)
  * **Code Explorer**
  * **File Explorer**
    * Easy configuration and browsing of the Python Path
    * Integrated Version Control using Tortoise Git, Tortoise SVN or Tortoise CVS
  * **Project Manager**
    * Import existing directories
    * Multiple run configurations
  * **Integrated Unit Testing**
    * Automatic generation of tests
    * Unit testing GUI
  * **[Refactoring support](https://pyscripter.blogspot.com/2025/10/feature-preview-refactoring.html)**
    - Organize imports
    - Rename
    - Extract variable
    - Extract function
    - Inline 
  * **[Code Diagnostics](https://pyscripter.blogspot.com/2025/10/feature-preview-code-checks-and-quick.html) with quick fixes**
  * **External Tools** (External run and capture output)
    * Integration with Python tools such as PyLint, TabNanny, Profile etc.
    * Powerful parameter functionality for customized external tool integration
  * **Other Features**
    * Access to Python manuals through the Help menu
    * To Do List
    * Find and Replace in Files
    * Integrated regular expression testing
    * Choice of Python version to run via command line parameters
    * Run Python Script externally (highly configurable)
    * Find Definition/Find references
    * Find definition by clicking and browsing history
    * Modern GUI with docked forms and configurable look&feel (themes)
    * Persistent configurable IDE options