Sameer Rathoud <sameer.rath...@gmail.com> writes: > I am new to python. > I am currently using python 3.3
Welcome! You're off to a good start, using Python 3 :-) > With python I got IDLE, but I am not very comfortable with this. > Please suggest, if we have any free ide for python development. What other programming languages are you familiar with? Learning a programming language is difficult enough. It should *not* entail all the effort of evaluating and learning a language-specific IDE; you should already be using an IDE that supports the new language. I strongly recommend learning *one* IDE which is free software, has good cross-platform and cross-language support, is mature and flexible. My IDE is Bash, Screen, and Emacs: * a terminal, running a GNU Screen session; Screen windows include: * Bash in various Screen windows * Emacs * an automated test runner * a database client You should invest the effort to learn either of Vim or Emacs. They both: * are free software, ensuring there are no barriers to their continued maintenance into the indefinite future; * mature, ensuring they have survived numerous IDE fads and already incorporate a lot of accumulated wisdom; * cross-platform, working the same on every development operating system today; * cross-language, supporting every important programming language and hundreds of minor ones. Learn either one of them, *once*, and you will be able to use the same toolset for any other languages you need. -- \ “A free press is one where it's okay to state the conclusion | `\ you're led to by the evidence.” —Bill Moyers | _o__) | Ben Finney -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
