On Mon, Dec 03, 2007 at 05:31:14PM -0600, John Reese wrote:
> Now I need to find an IDE that facilitates development of simple
> graphical games, and/or a simple graphical modeling program.

No IDE, but it has some decent howto's:

pygame.org

Or this one that I have recently found interesting:

www.pyglet.org

The Pyglet is interesting in that it is all Python and does not need any
other dependencies for writing a simple game.

Kelly