IDE: Development Environment

There are many interactive shells for Python development. I’m quite satisfied with the functionality of JetBrains PyCharm. The free version of this IDE (Community Edition) supports code formatting, auto-completion, real-time syntax checking, library installation and updates, and debugging.

How to Learn the Language

• Interactive tutorial learnpython.org — exercises can be completed directly in the browser.
• Interactive course on Codecademy.
• Free book “Think Python” by Allen Downey

How to Write Python Properly

• Official recommendations from language creators
• Google’s internal Python style guide
• “Writing Idiomatic Python” by Jeff Knupp — a collection of examples showing “right” and “wrong” ways to program standard things in Python