IDLE has pretty decent auto-complete. I've found that teaching with IDLE first, then switching to PyCharm (or other more full-featured environments) after they'

IDLE has pretty decent auto-complete. I've found that teaching with IDLE first, then switching to PyCharm (or other more full-featured environments) after they've learned the basics produces better programmers. Python also has the built-in ``help`` and ``dir`` for reminding yourself about features. No need to rely on the IDE when the language has you covered.