Koding is a cool site that provides a web-based development environment that is perfect for budding programers and veteran programmers who want an easy to use sandbox environment to develop in. For free you get a VM that that comes pre-setup so that you can develop in several languages including Python, plus database backends ability to install more resources (you get full root access to your VM).
A lot of coders use it to stage or live demo a project, and of course the VM automatically shutsdown when you log off. You can expand the VM’s but that’s the point you start paying, or once your project needs some real resources, or you want to bring on additional team members, etc.
Myself, I’ve been using it as a convenient place to experiment with writing Python web applications using uWSGI and the Flask framework. I found a tutorial Flask, which is apparently done by the same person writing the O’Reilly Flask book.