I've been programming in Python for about 2 years now and there are a few things I have learned along the way. One of the things I learned is..... How do I make my life easier???

One way is to customize your Python environment. This is quite easy to do! All you need to do is to create a pythonstartup file in your home directory.
Example... /home/dynasty/.pythonstartup

import readline
import rlcompleter
import os
import atexit
import os
readline.parse_and_bind('tab: complete')
histfile = os.path.join(os.environ['HOME'], '.pythonhistory')
try:
    readlne.read_history_file(histfile)
except IOError:
    pass
atexit.register(readline.write_history_file, histfile)

The above code will give you tab completion of your python modules. Which will save you so much time, here is an example...

>>> sys.
Display all 224 possibilities? (y or n)
sys.__class__              sys.exit
sys.__delattr__            sys.exitfunc
sys.__dict__               sys.getcheckinterval
sys.__displayhook__        sys.getdefaultencoding
sys.__doc__                sys.getdlopenflags
sys.__egginsert            sys.getfilesystemencoding
sys.__excepthook__         sys.getrecursionlimit
sys.__getattribute__       sys.getrefcount
sys.__hash__               sys.hexversion
sys.__init__               sys.last_traceback
sys.__name__               sys.last_type
sys.__new__                sys.last_value
sys.__plen                 sys.maxint
sys.__reduce__             sys.maxunicode
sys.__reduce_ex__          sys.meta_path
sys.__repr__               sys.modules
sys.__setattr__            sys.path
sys.__stderr__             sys.path_hooks
sys.__stdin__              sys.path_importer_cache
sys.__stdout__             sys.platform
sys.__str__                sys.prefix
sys._current_frames        sys.ps1
sys._getframe              sys.ps2

Now that you have your Python environment ready we now need to get your VIM environment ready as well. For those of you who do not know what VIM is, it is an editor or should I say THE EDITOR. Now if you are running any distro of Linux you are sure to have VIM. For those of you who do not have VIM.... GETTTT ITTTT!!! :)

Once you know that you have vim, lets go ahead and create a vimrc  file. For example /home/dynasty/.vimrc

set encoding=utf8
set paste
set expandtab
set textwidth=0
set tabstop=4
set softtabstop=4
set shiftwidth=4
set autoindent
set backspace=indent,eol,start
set incsearch
set ignorecase
set ruler
set wildmenu
set foldlevel=0
set clipboard+=unnamed
syntax on

Now your vim environment is good and ready to go. If you need to know what each of those values mean all you need to do is run vim and
type :help <value_name>