Could Python supplant Java?

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> WordPad, copy from console to a file,  edit, sysedit, ...

Support syntax-highlightening? indentation? folding? class-browser?
cross-reference indexer? interface to debugger? auto-completing?
refactoring browser?

> 
> Batch cmd files, WSH - CScript, WScript (VB, Java, CShell), Java ...

Java? I remember that M$ just removed their own disabled JVM from
windows.

> For a start.

But ends soon.