Just because nobody has mentioned them so far: - SciTe is a perfect editor for Pyhton on Win and Linx - PyScripter is a wonderful IDE (but only on Win) - DrPython is a nice platform independent editor/mini-IDE
There is no one editor that could be called the best one, but there are many which are far better suited for Python than the simple standard text editors (Notepad & Co). Maybe you prefer to have one editor that suits all your programming and typing needs (not only Python), so you don't have to use different editors Python, HTML, XML, config files etc. SciTe performs very well here, and of course also Emacs... -- Christoph -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list