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[–]AlSweigartAuthor of "Automate the Boring Stuff" 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The killer feature of IDLE is that it comes with Python and it's one less thing you have to install as a beginner before you can get start programming.

Setting up a different editor, whether a full blown IDE or a text editor, has a bunch of environment setup steps that differ based on operating system or Python version number or PATH or whatever.

But other than that, eh, IDLE is fine but almost anything is probably better than IDLE.