Hello everybody!

I am new to programming, I only have worked on Scratch and I really think that I have to get a better programming language with more abilities for game developing. I found out that python is a good language to start with. So i downloaded the latest version (3.3.3), but once open it the command line pops out, and I cant save any project.

I have notepad++ witch is supposed to provide an environment for any language but i don't know how to use it!

So my question is:

Is there any good environment for python and how do i use notepad++?

If you can give me download links I would be very grateful!!!

Hi cgeo,

If you're using Windows, you can use the IDLE IDE that ships with Python. It's not the most beautiful thing in the world, but it's already there. Just open it up and create a new file with it. You can run it natively in IDLE, so that's a good start.

If you're not on a Windows machine or you don't like IDLE (I wouldn't blame you, really), then you need to create and edit your Python programs in a text editor. I personally prefer SublimeText, but Notepad++ works just as well. Just save your file with a ".py" extension. To run a Python program on Windows, you can either navigate to the file in Windows Explorer and run it - this will open up the command line like you've already seen, or you can (and this is my personal preference) right click on it, "Edit with IDLE" and run it from there. It's not the most elegant solution, but IDLE provides good feedback on errors and won't just close when the program terminates for one reason or another. If you're on a Mac or *NIX, open up a terminal and run "python filename.py" where "filename" is whatever you named your file (prepended by the directory it's not in your current working directory).

I hope this helps!

On windows, you can also run the python file from the command line by running "python filename.py".

I know that eclipse (http://eclipse.org/downloads) can run python using pydev (http://pydev.org), don't know if eclipse works on mac or *nix, but it works on windows.

At work most of us use PyCharm.

Thanks to all of you guys I'm going to check some of your suggestions.

Also I have windows xp but I hope that in the end of the month i'll have a new pc with windows 7!

Oh, and what about graphics? How do I create graphics? I've heard something about PyGame...

There's also Python tools for Visual Studio: https://pytools.codeplex.com/

Support for both CPython and IronPython, with debugging and all. I haven't tried, but I believe you can use it from the free Visual Studio Integrated Shell.