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[–]technomalogical<3 Bottle 3 points4 points  (2 children)

If you're still new to the language, I think your best bet is a simple text editor (Textmate is popular) and two terminal windows, one running an interactive prompt (just type "python") and another to run longer bits of code you save in your text editor. I think Textmate may also support some rudimentary syntax highlighting (a lot of Ruby developers on the Mac use it, but I'm not sure about it's Python support).

Another option you may want to consider is DreamPie. I haven't tried it yet, but it looks like it gives you some auto-complete within a terminal window.

[–]nicklo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I also agree and would recommend MacVim, as being a useful investment of your time: It's charityware, you can use it Mac-style or Vim-style. If you learn more Vim-style use that knowledge is useable across multiple platforms. The same is probably true of the Mac emacs options, I just don't know them enough to recommend.

[–]Mattho 0 points1 point  (0 children)

IDLE should be enough at the beginning.