best text editor for programming Python on a Mac

[Lawrence D’Oliveiro]

On Sunday, June 19, 2016 at 7:13:26 PM UTC+12, Christian Gollwitzer wrote:

> Am 19.06.16 um 02:12 schrieb Lawrence D’Oliveiro:
>
>> But not vi/vim. It only lets you place your cursor *on* a character,
>> not *in-between* characters.
> 
> This is true if you use the text-mode version. I prefer gvim (actually 
> macvim on the mac) which feels much more like a modern editor.

Why not just use a modern editor, and be done with it?