+1 on investing in emacs. There's a shiny new release of the Oreilly, which is (a really large book) that a lot of people teach themself out of:
http://www.oreilly.com/catalog/gnu3/ But i would also recommend komodo from activestate's IDE, easy and powerful, once you understand what all's in the menu- & toolbars: http://www.activestate.com/Products/Komodo/?_x=1 (Maybe look at WingIDE, too, i've heard it's good) And the python quick refs: http://rgruet.free.fr/PQR24/PQR2.4.html http://www.onlamp.com/pub/a/python/excerpt/PythonPocketRef/index.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
