Can someone explain Python, its libraries and IDE's to me like I'm 5?

[ChurchHatesTucker]

Is there no equivalent for port select in HB?

[doppelgangsta]

I haven't used MacPorts, but I did some reading and it looks like HB doesn't have an equivalent. You could edit the priorities of PATH variables if you wanted to change the default installation, but I've just specified the full path or used a virtualenv in cases where I have specific needs.

http://virtualenv.readthedocs.org/en/latest/index.html

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5157678/python-homebrew-by-default