preferred windows text editor?

[Trent Mick]

nufuhsus at gmail.com wrote:
> I like IDLE but it seems to stop working after the first few times and
> I would then re-install it and it would work a few times more.
> ActivePython was cool but I could not find a version of it that used
> Python 2.5 (as far as I can see, it only uses 2.4)

ActivePython is the distribution of Python. The distro includes PyWin32 
(a bunch o' Windows stuff for Python). Part of that stuff is "Pythonwin" 
-- the editor that you are probably referring to.

There is an ActivePython 2.5.1 now:
http://www.activestate.com/products/activepython/

You should give Komodo Edit a try too:
http://www.activestate.com/products/komodo_edit/


Cheers,
Trent

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Trent Mick
trentm at activestate.com