Migrating from Windows to OS X

[ladasky at my-deja.com]

Kalle Anke wrote:
> On Sat, 18 Jun 2005 09:26:23 +0200, ladasky at my-deja.com wrote
> (in article <1119079582.973569.191490 at f14g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>):
>
> > I am sitting in front of a nice new PowerBook portable which has OS
> > 10.4 installed.  The Python.org web site says that Apple has shipped OS
> > 10.4 with Python 2.3.5 installed.  How exactly do I access this?  I
> > have searched through the Applications and Libraries folders.  I found
> > the site-packages directory, but nothing other than that.
>
> Launch Terminal (can be found in /Application/Utilities/)
>
> type python
>
> that's it

O.K., I found it... thanks!  I haven't been down to the UNIX prompt on
the Mac before.

How are the development tools for the Mac?  I'll use IDLE if it's
available, but I like Scintilla better.

Repeating my thanks,
John Ladasky