[Tutor] Recommendations for best tool to write/run Python

[toothpik]

On Wed, Mar 02, 2016 at 01:26:11PM -0500, Lisa Hasler Waters wrote:
> Hello everyone,

> I am new to Python, as are my middle school students. We are using Python
> 3.5.1 IDLE to write and run our (simple) code. However, this tool does not
> seem to be the best way to write longer code or to be able to re-edit code
> that has been saved/closed/reopened.

> Eventually, we hope to build some projects that we can "use" and share with
> others.

> Could you please recommend the best Python tools for writing and running
> our code for the long term? Also, we are hoping to find free tools!

<my-opinion>

you can do no better than vim for writing, and any given command line
for running

</my-opinion>