[Pythonmac-SIG] New Page, first proposal

[Christopher Barker]

Charles Hartman wrote:
>  I just don't believe it should
> be necessary for those people, at first, to take on even the beginnings 
> of Unix in order to brave taking on Python. 

How are they going to do it? Is there a single free IDE that you think 
is ready for this kind of user (including the install)? I don't know of one.

Without an IDE, you have the terminal (which is an IDE, as a matter of 
fact, but not a GUI one!)

You're right that it shouldn't be necessary, but I think it still is. 
The lowest common denominator at this point needs to be a willingness to 
learn a bit about using the terminal and an editor.

-Chris

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