Eric is a full featured Python editor and IDE, written in Python. It is based on the cross platform Qt GUI toolkit, integrating the highly flexible QScintilla editor control. It is designed to be usable as everdays' quick and dirty editor as well as being usable as a professional project management tool integrating many advanced features Python offers the professional coder. Eric includes a plug-in system, which allows easy extension of the IDE functionality with plug-ins downloadable from the net.