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From: Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 27 Dec 2011 14:31:00 -0700
Subject: Re: Python education survey
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On Tue, Dec 27, 2011 at 2:13 PM, Lie Ryan <lie.1296@gmail.com> wrote:
> In any case, removing IDLE without a much better replacement is pretty much
> out of the question. If people installed Python in vanilla Windows install,
> they would only have Notepad to edit their code.

No no, Wordpad is much better for editing Python.  It even supports
(manual) syntax highlighting!

And of course for the console lovers there is MS-DOS Edit.