Beginners looking to get their feet wet with Python are often steered toward IDLE, but Thonny, a small IDE geared to beginners, is substantially more hassle-free.

Positron is Posit's new, free IDE for data science. Users can work with Python and R. It explicitly does not replace RStudio.

JetBrains has split the latest edition of its PyCharm Python IDE (integrated development environment) into two editions -- the paid professional edition and a new free community edition.

This post explains how to install Python on Linux, Windows, or Mac. We will also set up an editor so that you can start coding!

I’m using autocomplete-python and tabs-to-spaces, but again I come up short when it comes to running Python files. I’ve tried platformio-ide-terminal, script, and runner plugins.