Python language ver 2.4 , development platform 0.4

[Michael Sparks]

Dark Cowherd wrote:

> The Python language is at ver 2.4 and a thing of beauty. As a
> development environment IMHO it is probably 0.4

Have you considered looking at any of the commercial IDEs? Personally I
*like* command line based systems, but I do know many people who swear
by GUI based IDEs. If you have, what did want to see but didn't see ?
(System usability from my perspective starts with developers, since whilst
beauty is skin deep, ugly goes to the bone)

Most of these IDEs tend to integrate with one of the more common GUI
toolkits as well, which /may/ be more TOOWTDI from your perspective. As for
batteries included, I suspect it depends on what you expect as
batteries :-)

> Small projects, utilities which I am going to code myself I will
> continue to use Python because I love it.

Nice to hear.

> I hope to learn Python well enough to be able to contribute to some
> projects to achieve this. But I still see that as six to nine months
> away.

I'm sure such contributions would be welcome - especially if you're 
scratching an itch to help resolve the things you currently suggest as 
deficiencies :-)

Regards,


Michael.