On a more useful note, I'll assume you're not already a vim or emacs zealot, since you are asking the question ;-) and give my tips:
SPE seems to be the best (free) python IDE out there at the moment, though the text editor component is pretty basic. I personally use jEdit, since it has a superb editor component, and Python plugins which make developing in python very comfortable, such as a (cpython and jython) debugger, and a Jython plugin which allows scripting of jEdit in python (well, jython - so you'll miss a few of the newer language features when scripting jEdit itself. None of the pure python IDE's/editors out there come close to the likes of jEdit, vim or emacs in terms of pure editing power. -- Ant... -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list