[freakboy3742]

One feature that all these tools share is that they're console based. This is nice, but there's a reason we all use graphical environments for our daily computing -- rich graphical user interfaces are a powerful tool for visualising complex data. However, you don't have to adopt a full IDE to get a graphical UI. Bugjar (http://pybee.org/bugjar) is a graphical debugger -- not an IDE, just a debugger. It uses Tkinter, so it's cross platform, and can be installed using "pip install bugjar".

It's an early stage project, but hopefully demonstrates that there is a middle ground between "Everything in an 80x25 text window" and "500lb IDE gorilla".

(Full disclosure: I'm the core developer of Bugjar)