Sublime text or Spyder. Others have talked about ST, I'll talk about Spyder. Spyder is a little bit bigger of a hog, but it has autocompletion for functions whi

Sublime text or Spyder. Others have talked about ST, I'll talk about Spyder. Spyder is a little bit bigger of a hog, but it has autocompletion for functions which is incredibly handy for discovering what can be done, and it helps you pick out the differences between objects (oh, a list and a string have these similar operations to them, cool!). It has a built in console, which is great to keep focused on single screen. Instead of resizing and shuffling windows, just keep it all in one display. Press F5 to run your code. Fire up a console and try something out (with autocompletion in the console too). It also has built in documentation, an object explorer, and some other cool features that are escaping me. It hasn't always treated me nicely (sometimes it forgets to reload my code, or it goes out of style (literally, it loses styles sometimes)), but overall it's a good spearhead for getting up to speed quickly with Python. Spyder - http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/ http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/