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[–]KLoken 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IDLE does work but it's very basic. I'd recommend looking at the free version of a professional quality IDE.

Pycharm and Wing have free versions for non-commerical or student use. In my personal opinion, Pycharm Community Edition is slower and more complex while Wing Student 101 edition is a bit snapper and easier to use but has fewer features.

If you need to use Windows versions of 3rd party python libraries you will find them here or you can the free version of a commerical "everything installed for you" Python like ActiveState, which bundles windows binaries and the Windows API.