Newbie question about running Python via GUI on OSX

[ejwjohn]

I would just like to advise on an IDE that will help you greatly on OSX, VSCode (not to be confused with Virtual Studio).

Idle is not a very good IDE (even though part of python distribution).
You would be doing yourself a favour to start off with a solid IDE.

see: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/setup/mac

also see: https://python-forum.io/Thread-VS-Code-from-start

If at some point you need to move to a platform other than OSX, this will work on Linux and/or MS Windows as well.

Hello,

Thank you very much for your helpful responses, I will certainly try your recommendation.

Apart from OSX I use Raspberry Pi to experiment with projects, and I also have a Linux virtual machine running on my OSX system, so I will certainly use these other platforms as part of my experiments to establish which I should use for this Python Learning project.

Thank You

JohnW