alternatives.md

Alternativates

To Elpy

• See https://www.emacswiki.org/emacs/PythonProgrammingInEmacs#toc3
• Language Server Protocol Mode - see also cc-a/lsp-mode-demo. A good generalist mode for multiple languages but not as fully featured.
• Anaconda mode. Less fully featured but with explicit support for running in containers, via Tramp etc.

To direnv

• auto-virtualenv and various others

• poetry/pipenv - These tools let you outsource the management of virtual environments. Some extra configuration will be needed. For e.g. Poetry:

  (setq python-shell-interpreter "poetry")
  (setq python-shell-interpreter-args "run python")
  (elpy-test-pytest-runner-command . ("poetry" "run" "pytest"))