Python tools for Raspberry Pi

The following are pre-installed tools that we may use for Python development on Raspberry Pi using Raspbian. This list is by no means the only tools that we may use for development.

The Terminal

As Python comes pre-installed with Raspbian, an easy way to launch it is to use the Terminal. As we can see in the following screenshot, the Python interpreter can be accessed by simply typing python as the command prompt in a Terminal window:

We may test it out by running the simplest of programs:

print 'hello'

Notice the Python version in the line after the command, 2.7.13. The python command in Raspbian is tied to Python 2. In order to access Python 3, we must type the python3 command in...