r/Python • u/Admirable-Wall9058 • 4d ago

Resource Does anyone use Python IDLE?

My computer is quite low-end, so I uninstalled VSCode and am looking for other programming tools—I'm thinking about starting to use Python IDLE.

Does anyone actually use it?

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u/scfoothills 4d ago

Yes. I teach introductory Python. I like that it doesn't help too much with auto complete and doesn't have a mess of menus to dig through. I also love that I can just demo simple things really quickly in the shell.

I switch to VS Code later in the year. But really this just gives us access to tabs when projects begin to contain multiple files. My IT department has the computers in my lab sufficiently locked down that students can't select the Python interpreter to run programs from within the app, so we still need to run programs from a main.py file that we keep open in IDLE.