This is certainly a worthy topic. There are several IDEs for Python (one I like very much being Komodo) that have plenty of fancy debugging features and advanced operations, however I have yet to encounter (elsewhere) the convenience that comes with being able to press F5 and have an interactive interpreter load my code and be ready for testing.
Try emacs + python-mode.
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