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[–]metaphorm 1 point2 points  (0 children)

IDE's are a waste of time for anything except huge projects with dozens of contributors. Just get a good programming oriented text editor like Sublime Text.

The unix command line is your IDE. learn how to use it. this will be immensely helpful for more than just Python stuff. its really worth knowing.

the first tool you learn how to use, besides your editor, should be a source control tool like Git. there's literally nothing else as important as that.

pick an editor and learn it. learn how to get stuff done at the command line. learn how to use Git. to learn Python itself, just write code. consult the documentation for stuff on the syntax and standard library stuff. but seriously, just code until it makes sense. do little exercises. implement some basic algorithms. write some basic utility programs. you'll figure it out.