Thomas> The Python world lacks the phenomenally successful development Thomas> models enjoyed by the now ancient Turbo Pascal, Delphi and Thomas> <gasp> Visual Basic. Thomas> AND Thomas> If the likes of Visual Basic can have it, then it becomes Thomas> really, *really* hard to convince the world that Python is a Thomas> serious, professional system.
Remember, in the open source community we all pretty much just scratch our itches. Given that for the most part nobody in the Python community has a handle on any other Python person's paycheck, it's unlikely that enough of the community can be convinced that a VB-like development environment would be a "killer app" for Python and thus motivated to go produce one. Apparently, most Python people feel productive enough without such a tool. Skip -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list