I'm interested in using vim, but I'm not thrilled about trying to set up debuggers when an IDE has it for you.

Maybe I'm over complicating it, anyone have a python based suggestion?

As a note, I do not have local admin but Vim is installed already.

If you want to have it the other way around (having Vim inside your IDE instead of turning your Vim to an IDE) I’d suggest you to try IdeaVim [0] with PyCharm. Works very well, you can even use your own .vimrc file.

[0] - https://github.com/JetBrains/ideavim