IDLE is an open-source IDE for Python. Being open-source, it is completely free, so It can be downloaded and installed onto your own computers from here:
https://www.python.org/downloads/
Run IDLE on the school computers
- Click the Start button (bottom-left of your screen).
- Click All Programs.
- Scroll down to the Python 3.x folder
- Click the folder to open it.
- Click IDLE (Python 3.x 32-bit).
- Once IDLE loads, click File, then New File to open a new script window.
Open Python files
DO NOT double click your file, this will run the program once with a black background and then close it again.
- Open IDLE.
- From the File drop-down menu, choose Open File.
or
- Find your Python file in the file manager.
- Right-click it
- Choose Edit with IDLE, then Edit with IDLE 3.x.