I am a newbie in Programming and I want to start with Python what is the best interpreter ?

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oleg3321 · Answer

i wouldnt start with python. i think it will be to hard for you to start with. i would rather start with  Turbo Pascal, its a lot easier and the instructions are pretty easy too. @Toofan

rsmith6559 · Answer

Python is the interpreter. You can use any plain text editor to write programs with. If you've downloaded Python from http://www.python.org , you've probably got IDLE. If you have a newer mac or a Linux machine, IDLE will be installed, no download needed. IDLE is and IDE, Integrated Development Environment. I personally don't like IDLE. It runs with two windows, one is a Python shell ( the same you'd get by running Python ), the other is an editor where you can write and save programs and run them in the other window. That's the integrated part. One thing that you need to be careful of: Python is in a major transition. Python version 2 is significantly different than Python version 3. Most of the OCW ( Open CourseWare ) courses are Python v2. If you try to do these courses with Python 3, you'll give yourself unneeded problems.

anonymous · Answer

I have a newer MAC and I found the IDLE shell you are talking about, but mine only opens with one window, how do I open the editor?

rsmith6559 · Answer

Make sure that that window has focus, and just File>New Window

You can also set it up in the preferences which window you want to open.

anonymous · Answer

Thanks that helped a lot.

anonymous · Answer

You can use Enthought Canopy as your editor it is very easy to use.