What tools do you use alongside scripting?

Hi everyone,
As I’m learning more about scripting, I’m realizing it’s not just about the language itself but also the tools people use alongside it.
I’m curious:
What editors or environments do you prefer?
Are there any tools that make scripting easier or faster?
Trying to set up a simple workflow as a beginner, so any recommendations would be helpful.
Thanks in advance!

For automation/scraping work: VS Code with Python extension for writing, Jupyter notebooks for testing scrapers step-by-step without re-running everything from scratch, and mitmproxy for traffic inspection. Mitmproxy is the one most beginners skip but it's essential — it lets you see exactly what headers, cookies, and payloads a site sends, which is how you reverse-engineer APIs and figure out why your scraper is getting blocked. Those three cover 90% of what you actually need day-to-day.