> On Windows I use Pythonwin ... can anyone recommend an IDE I > can use for Python development on Linux IDLE? Thats why its part of the distro, it works on most platforms... There are others but none that offer anything significantly better than IDLE IMHO unless you want to pay for them. Alan g. Author of the 'Learning to Program' web site http://www.freenetpages.co.uk/hp/alan.gauld