
It is based on the cross platform Qt UI toolkit, integrating the highly flexible Scintilla editor control. “Eric is a full featured Python editor and IDE, written in Python. Eric, a full featured python editor and IDE, now can be easily installed in Ubuntu 16.04, Ubuntu 18.04, and higher via Snap package. Among its features, Thonny supports code completion and highlight syntax errors, but it also provides a simple debugger, which you can run your program step-by-step.

It’s a software developed at The University of Tartu, which you can download for free on the Bitbucket repository for Windows, Linux, and Mac. The next IDE is Thonny: an IDE for learning and teaching programming.
