editing scripts on a mac

[Aahz]

In article <mailman.7043.1177690124.32031.python-list at python.org>,
Steve Holden  <steve at holdenweb.com> wrote:
>
>Now, frankly, I don't think this answer is correct, since I know OS X is 
>a UNIX derivative, but I am loathe to involve a programming noob with vi 
>or something similar. So I wondered if one of the c.l.py mac users could 
>give brief instructions for firing up a visual text editor of some sort 
>and saving a file somewhere it can easily be accessed from a terminal 
>window (which I presume starts up in his home directory).

What's wrong with IDLE?
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"...string iteration isn't about treating strings as sequences of strings, 
it's about treating strings as sequences of characters.  The fact that
characters are also strings is the reason we have problems, but characters 
are strings for other good reasons."  --Aahz