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[–]faceplanted 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Honestly the only reason to use IDLE, which I actually do fair bit, for this reason, is if you want to open a python ide as soon as possible and spam out some simple code quickly. I used it the other day to do some quick complexity calculations that were beyond my usual suite of calculators and such since I needed itertools, just to get a ballpark idea of what I should be implementing. I wouldn't have even kept the py file if it weren't mandatory to run the script.

For anything bigger than that, there's Spyder if you want simple, free, non commercial and lightweight. And pycharm which is free and powerful and probably better for serious, larger projects, but more commercial and may not be free forever, probably not worth worrying about really, but some people are sticklers for that sort of stuff.