Learning python from a book or online?

I'm pretty even the base python package comes with an editor that is capable of running python code, on your pc. It's not just used for web-development, python has other applications as well.

Ah possibly then, I don't do Python myself so I don't know for sure.

It's been a while since I touched it, but the docs indicate it's still part of the latest version; https://docs.python.org/3/library/idle.html

Official documentation. Read that, then move to make your own projects. 'Hands in the mud' is the best approach to learn programming.

Learning through online i think would be the best option for you.

If you have no friend around to help you, then follow guide in a book is a good choice. But I think you can also start with some small project that you exciting to do, google and search for how to solve your project. and also, dont forget that there is friend in the community to help you when you need happy coding

I would definitely recommend learning online. There are endless resources, and you can copy paste code into google to get help
It's also good to be hands on and write bits of code in between readings.

If you learn through Online on sites like Udemy, then therewould be a forum to discuss your doubts and other members discussing there doubts, which would give you a more personal and in-depth experience in learning and familiarizing the language more quicker.

If you insist on learning Python, then yes online is nice. Sololearn has a free class, that I also backed up with the khan academy course. You may notice that sololearn also has a free cpp class as well, maybe click that instead?
As for Python, once you setup the IDE, I would suggest you use PyCharm by JetBrains. Really nice for troubleshooting code and error catching. Using the IDLE, pythons built in editor is trash for the most part. I guess its fun if you want to play around with screen drawing?
I personally started by making a number guessing game, and a mad lib game. Mad lib game I used to get syntax down and number guessing game to get error handling down. By time I had these 2 things down, the rest is just adding to it.
If you are getting into programming for cheats, I would deter you from learning python. While you can do anything in python you want, it usually takes much more time and code to accomplish.

i would choose book but that is because i finished my first course through a book, online, it's dependent how lenient they are for accepting answers.

I suggest you also try to do leetcode easy problems while learning to code.