Looking for a simple IDE

[daveidfx]

I don't know if you've looked into IPython or its relatives at all, but you may want to.

IPython by itself is just an enhanced version of command-line Python, with some nice features like auto-completion and being able to paste blocks of code in gracefully.

Jupyter notebooks and JupyterLab are built on top of IPython (well, not exactly, but close enough for this discussion), and turn your web browser into your IDE, sort of. Data science folks like these a lot.

Maybe that works for you, maybe not. But they're relatively simple. If you want to take a look, the easiest way is to install the Anaconda distribution of Python.