Compiler
 

Do I need a compiler or text editor to star programming with Python?
or how Python works?

Python works by compiling code into a custom, platform-independant bytecode format on the fly, then executing this. In practise, this means you just download Python and install it, write your script as a text file, save it with the ".py" extension, and then double-click to run.

but if you don't use a GUI (you won't at first) you just start it from a command line. As Arevos said, you only *need* the actual python interpreter. But a good text editor never does no harm. Python comes with IDLE, which is ok; I recommend SciTE (or VIM if you have no problem spending a few weeks learning how to use an editor properly ;) )

I'm using the Boa Constructor IDE. It's pooty good, and has wx-Widgets (or whatever it's called, these days) hung on it, to boot.

Thank you.