If you program in Python, you’ll eventually want to use a development environment. Eclipse is a well-known IDE (integrated development environment) for Java programming. You can co-opt Eclipse to use with Python by using PyDev.

Download Eclipse, saving it to your desktop. I don’t install it to my C: drive or anything; I’m not even sure if you can do that. Download PyDev. Drag the folders “features” and “plugins” to your Eclipse folder, thus merging the contents of the PyDev folders and the Eclipse folders. Open Eclipse and select a working directory. In Eclipse, goto Window->Open Perspective and PyDev should be listed there. Open it up and now you’ll be able to program in Python in Eclipse and run Python programs in Eclipse.