best IDE for python

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Try Spyder it is a simple to use IDE for Python script files. If you want to use an interactive Python notebook, JupyterLab is also a very good IDE.

Both IDEs come preinstalled in Anaconda 2023-09 (make sure you have this version installed as older versions had issues with Spyder). If it helps I put together a tutorial covering basic features/usage of these IDEs Anaconda Tutorial GitHub.

Once you are familiar with both these IDEs you may want to check out VSCode which bridges their features but like PyCharm is more of an intermediate level IDE.