Thanks. Yes I had spent an hour this morning trying to discover the right tool.

Microsoft Visual Code looked the best in the end, but seemed to have one too many dependencies. Its support for Python 2 autosuggest etc also appears to be on the way out (its Jedi module "is expected to be the last release to support Python 2.7").

Sublime Text also looked interesting and is said to be popular, but... $80(!) and which version to use... 2, 3, or 4? Looks pretty, but not really viable in terms of cost.

So thanks for the PyCharm suggestion. Looks nice. Downloading now (350Mb!). Once installed it appears to have the ability to go get the Python installs needed for debugging, which is useful as it presumably gets the right ones and knows where to install them. The clear support pages for newbies are also encouraging and current...

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/configuring-python-interpreter.html

https://www.jetbrains.com/help/pycharm/migrating-from-text-editors.html

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