Python in Zed

What’s built into Zed for Python, plus 12 Python extensions: language servers, linters, formatters and snippets.

✓ Built into Zed, no extension needed

Python syntax and language support
Basedpyright and Ty language servers
Ruff linting and formatting

Zed’s Python docs ↗

Language servers

Python LSP

python-lsp extension for Zed

133k 60 Kyle Kelley

BasedPyright

Python type checking and language server support from BasedPyright.

69k 48 Jose Miguel

Also built in

Pyrefly

Support for the Pyrefly static type checker for Python in Zed

55k 62 Ben Kunkle

Ty

An extremely fast Python type checker and language server, written in Rust.

Also built in

Django

Django support

47k 42 Josh Thomas

pytest Language Server

A blazingly fast Language Server Protocol implementation for pytest

39k 121 Thiago Bellini Ribeiro

Python Auto-Doc

Auto-generates PEP 257 docstrings for Python

3.3k 5 Evan Allender

Linting & formatting

Ruff

Support for Ruff, the Python linter and formatter

Also built in

PythonRefactoring

Refactoring support for Python.

80k 25 Roy Williams

File types & syntax

Python requirements and constraints

Syntax highlighting for requirements.txt and constraints.txt files

144k 5 Gabriel Linder

Snippets

Python Snippets

Python snippets for Zed IDE. A collection of python snippets to improve your development speed.

106k 33 Carlos Tosta

Django Snippets

Useful Django snippets.

37k 4 Ben Cressman

Common questions

Do I need an extension for Python in Zed?

No. Python support is built into Zed: Python syntax and language support, Basedpyright and Ty language servers and Ruff linting and formatting. Extensions add alternatives and extras.

Which Python language server should I use in Zed?

Popular language server extensions: Python LSP, BasedPyright and Pyrefly. Ruff, BasedPyright and Ty also ship with Zed.

What are the most popular Python extensions for Zed?

Python requirements and constraints (144k downloads), Python LSP (133k downloads) and Ruff (119k downloads).

Other languages

🦀 Rust 🔷 TypeScript 🟨 JavaScript 🐹 Go ☕ Java 💎 Ruby 🐘 PHP 💧 Elixir ⚙️ C and C++