[Edu-sig] Re: The right learning environment

[Patrick K. O'Brien]

[Kirby Urner]
> PyCrust is certainly a useful tool -- last I checked, it
> was a shell, w/o a text editor, and this would promote
> the kind of unbundled approach you're advocating.  And
> as long as the shell is in the picture (and I prefer
> GUI-based, but it's not mandatory), I think we're doing
> Python justice.

That is still the case. PyCrust is a shell plus a namespace tree view. The
GUI is wxPython, to be precise. These days I find myself using IDLE most
often as my editor, though I sometimes use Vim and Boa as well.

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Patrick K. O'Brien
Orbtech