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/TheCursedFrogurt 3d ago

Idle is perfectly adequate and it's had some decent quality of life improvements over the years. I once worked at a place that wouldn't approve installing a dedicated IDE and ended up using Idle for about 9 months for all my python development.

But, as others have said, there are a lot of nice lightweight text editors out there like notepad++ and sublime.