a good programming text editor (not IDE)

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John Salerno wrote:
> Larry Bates wrote:
>
> > Nope, no Java knowledge necessary.  Jython just compiles Python code
> > to java bytecode instead of python bytecode.  Once it is in java bytecode
> > the JVM doesn't know where it came from.
>
> Well that's good to know. I guess there's not much of a point in writing
> pure Python code with Jython, but at least now I know it works that way!

That's right - but it's very useful for scripting Java (for example in
jEdit) as you have access not only to the Python library, but to the
Java API (which you just use as if they were Python modules).