Ask HN: What is your favorite text editor?
I am new to learning python. Some people recommend to use IDE or others to use text editor. What do you say? What should I use?
Programming is not just writing code, its a `tedious` task of writing, compiling, running and debugging. IMHO, as a started you need an IDE to get things done fast (at least to get the environment up and running)
After that you can easily switch to a better editor like Vim(again personal choice)
Also check this article: http://softwareengineering.stackexchange.com/q/20950
Python will pass, you'll use other programming languages. But emacs is your editor for life.