help with Python Environment For Blind User

[Anton Vredegoor]

Zachary" <vzd1s1fs at verizon.net> wrote:

>I'm a blind non-programmer trying to learn Python.
>I've got python 2.3 for windows, but the problem is that Idle doesn't seem
>to work two well with my screen reading program.
>Is notepad, then, my only other real choice?  Pythonwin worked similarly
>badly.
>The problem is my programs inability to track the cursor.  It doesn't tell
>me what line I'm on, where I am in that line, or what I just deleted.  It
>would do this in a normal editor.
>Any help with this would be appreciated.

Idle provides an editor and an interactive commandline. Maybe you end
up in the commandline while expecting to be in the editor? Pythonwin
has a similar setup. 

I vaguely remember being puzzled by this too when I first met Python a
long time ago. Later I had another problem in that I didn't know how
to "run" a Python script. For some time I tried to use MsDos batch
files to call the scripts from. In the end things settled down and I
became comfortable with the tools. 

At the moment my setup includes a lot of tools that aren't standard,
some tools were written by me, using Python!

Using my eyes to read from the screen and already being a programmer
when  I started with Python it's a bit hard to anticipate your
specific situation. 

Don't give up to soon. There seems to be one obvious way to do things
with Python, but in my case the interpretation of what is obvious
changes fairly often, for the better I hope :-) 

Anton