Hi, Wingware has been working with the University of Toronto on an experimental new member of the Wing IDE product line that is designed for teaching introductory programming courses. Our goal is to try to support more wide-spread use of Python as a language for teaching programming. The result is called Wing IDE 101 and has been released semi-publically here: http://wingware.com/wingide-101 It runs on Windows, Mac OS X with X11 Server, and Linux. Although Wing IDE is commercial, this edition of the product is free to use without charge. It is not, however, open source. As I noted, this is experimental, and we're not yet sure where the experiment will lead us. Please feel free to try it and if you are interested in using it for course work, contact us at support@wingware.com. Thanks! Stephan Deibel -- Wingware Wing IDE for Python Advancing Software Development www.wingware.com