I'm just starting out learning python with GEdit plus various plugins as my IDE.
Visual Studio/F# has a feature  which permits the highlighting on a piece of text in the code window which then, on a keypress, gets executed in the F# console. 
Is there a similar facility/plugin which would enable this sort of behaviour for GEdit/Python? I do have various execution type plugins (Run In Python,Better Python Console) but they don't give me this particular behaviour - or at least I'm not sure how to configure them to give me this. I find it useful because in learning python, I have some test code I want to execute particular individual lines or small segments of code (rather then a complete file) to try and understand what they are doing (and the copy/paste can get a bit tiresome)
... or perhaps there is a better way to do code exploration?
Many thx
Simon
The closest to a decent IDE...
Install gedit-developer-plugins (through synaptic || apt-get) and don't forget to enable (what you need) from gEdit's plugins (Edit->Preferences [tab] plugins)  and happy coding
GEdit/Python execution plugin?