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You can debug multi-process and multi-threaded code launched from the IDE, hosted in a web framework, called from an embedded Python instance, or run on a remote host, VM, container, or cluster. Wing also provides an array and dataframe viewer for scientific and data analysis tasks. </p> <p> <a href="wingide/debugger">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <br clear="all"/> <div class="key-points-left"> <img class="modal-img hover-link" src="/images/key-remote.png" onclick="modal_show_image(this, 579)"> <div class="key-point"> <h2><a href="wingide/remote">Remote and Container Development</a></h2> <p> Wing's quick-to-configure remote development support delivers all of Wing's features seamlessly and securely to Python code running on a remote host, VM, container, or cluster. 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Wing can emulate vi, emacs, Eclipse, Visual Studio, XCode, and MATLAB. </p> <p> <a href="wingide/editor">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <br clear="all"/> <div class="key-points-left"> <img class="modal-img hover-link" src="/images/key-navigation.png" onclick="modal_show_image(this, 579)"> <div class="key-point"> <h2><a href="wingide/navigation">Easy Code Navigation</a></h2> <p> Wing makes it easy to get around code with goto-definition, find uses, find symbol in project, editor symbol index, module and class browser, keyboard-driven search, and powerful multi-file search. Visit history is stored automatically, so you can instantly return to previously visited code. Or define and traverse categorized bookmarks that track automatically as code changes. </p> <p> <a href="wingide/navigation">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <br clear="all"/> <div class="key-points-right"> <img class="modal-img hover-link" src="/images/key-testing.png" onclick="modal_show_image(this, 579)"> <div class="key-point"> <h2><a href="wingide/testing">Integrated Unit Testing</a></h2> <p> Wing supports test-driven development with the unittest, doctest, nose, pytest, and Django testing frameworks. Failing tests are easy to diagnose and fix with Wing's powerful debugger, and you can write new code interactively in the live runtime context set up by a unit test. Wing can track and display code coverage for your unit tests, so that you know how well your tests are exercising your code. Coverage data is also used to determine when edits to your code invalidate previously collected test results. </p> <p> <a href="wingide/testing">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <br clear="all"/> <div class="key-points-left"> <img class="modal-img hover-link" src="/images/key-new-project.png" onclick="modal_show_image(this, 579)"> <div class="key-point"> <h2><a href="wingide/project">Project Management</a></h2> <p> Wing's powerful project management capabilities work with Python environments managed by virtualenv, Poetry, pipenv, conda, and Docker, with revision control using Git, Mercurial, Perforce, Subversion, or CVS. You can easily create new Python environments from Wing, add, remove, or update Python packages, and freeze your package configuration for use by other developers. </p> <p> <a href="wingide/project">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <br clear="all"/> <div class="key-points-right"> <img class="modal-img hover-link" src="/images/key-custom.png" onclick="modal_show_image(this, 579)"> <div class="key-point"> <h2><a href="wingide/customize">Customizable and Extensible</a></h2> <p> Wing offers hundreds of configuration options affecting editor emulation, display themes, syntax coloring, UI layout, and much more. Easily switch to and from dark mode, magnify the interface for presentations and meetings, and use perspectives to manage task-specific UI configurations. New IDE features can be added by writing Python code that calls down to Wing's scripting API. You can even develop and debug your extension scripts with Wing. </p> <p> <a href="wingide/customize">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <br clear="all"/> <div class="key-points-left"> <img class="modal-img hover-link" src="/images/key-more.png" onclick="modal_show_image(this, 579)"> <div class="key-point"> <h2><a href="wingide/other">And Much More</a></h2> <p> Other features include a difference/merge tool, code reformatting with Ruff, Black, YAPF, and autopep8, indentation style conversion, and executing OS command lines. Wing runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux, and also supports remote development to macOS and Linux, including Raspberry Pi and other ARM Linux devices. </p> <p> <a href="wingide/other">Read More</a> </p> </div> </div> <div id="support"> <br clear="all"/> <br/> <p class="first-support"> Not all features are available in Wing Personal and Wing 101. <a href="/downloads">Compare Products</a> </p> <p> <b>Questions?</b> <a href="mailto:support@wingware.com">Email us</a>! We are dedicated to providing top-notch support. </p> </div>  </div>  </div> <div class="home-testimonials"> <div class="main-content"> <div class="testimonial"> <div class="testimonial-bio"> <img class="eye-candy-image-left" border="0" src="/images/anthony_f.jpg" /> <br clear="all"> <b>Anthony Floyd</b> <br /><br /> Engineering Lead at Convergent Manufacturing Technologies, Inc. </div> <p> We are a specialized engineering company that writes desktop applications for engineers to perform process simulation and related data analysis. We have been using Wing Pro for the past decade with a small team of developers. We could not be happier with the product and the support! </p> <p> The debugger and code navigation tools are some of the best features in Wing Pro. It is very easy to trace problems through complicated code. It is easy to jump to areas of code that you need to find. The editor is theme-able and many of our team work in 'dark mode'. </p> <p> The support is also great. Issues get responded to quickly and fixes pushed within days. </p> </div> <br clear="all"> <div class="testimonial"> <div class="testimonial-bio"> <img class="eye-candy-image-right" border="0" src="/images/ram_rachum.jpg" /> <br clear="all"> <b>Ram Rachum</b> <br /><br /> Python Consultant and Open Source Developer </div> <p> I've been using Wing Pro as my main development environment for 10 years now. I've used it for my open-source projects, my client projects when I was working as a freelancer, and now at my work in a corporate environment. I do Python programming almost exclusively, so Wing's Python-centric approach is a good fit for me. </p> <p> The debugger is first-class. It works on multi-process, multi-thread programs and supports remote debugging. The editor is great. It's got VI and emacs mode and it's extensible with Python scripts. The support staff is great. I've made many suggestions and requests for improvement to them over the years, and they've implemented many of them. Bugs are fixed quickly. </p> <p> Overall, I highly recommend Wing Pro! </p> </div> <br /> <br clear="all"> <div> See also: <a href='/whywingpro'>Why Wing Pro?</a> </div> </div> </div> <div id="applications"> <div class="main-content"> <div class="framework-box"> <h3>Scientific and Data Analysis</h3> <p> Wing's focus on interactive development works well for scientific and data analysis with Jupyter, NumPy, SciPy, Matplotlib, pandas, and other frameworks. The debugger's dataframe and array viewer makes it easy to inspect large data sets. </p> </div> <div class="framework-box"> <h3>Web Development</h3> <p> Wing supports development with Django, Flask, web2py, Pyramid, Google App Engine, and other web frameworks. The debugger can step through Django and web2py templates. Wing works seamlessly with code running on a remote host, virtual machine, or container hosted by Docker, WSL, Vagrant, AWS, or LXC/LXD. </p> </div> <div class="framework-box"> <h3>Animation and Games</h3> <p> Since Wing's debugger can run in embedded instances of Python, it can be used to develop scripts for Blender, Autodesk Maya, NUKE, Source Filmmaker and other modeling, rendering, and compositing applications that use Python. Wing also works with pygame and other Python-based game engines. </p> </div> <div class="framework-box"> <h3>Desktop Apps and More</h3> <p> Wing can develop, test, and debug desktop applications with PyQt, wxPython, Tkinter, and other UI development frameworks. 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