On Sat, Dec 14, 2013 at 3:48 PM, David Hutto <dwightdhu...@gmail.com> wrote: > In my opinion, a novice always tries to reinvent the wheel. Take for example > a simple text editor.
Which isn't a bad thing. Especially in that particular case, it's good to try your hand at writing a text editor - most of the hard grunt-work is done for you (just plop down an edit control - in some toolkits you can even deploy a control with full source code highlighting), so you can focus on figuring out what it is that makes yours different. And then you'll appreciate other editors more :) But along the way, you'll learn so much about what feels right and what feels wrong. And maybe you can incorporate some of your own special unique features into whatever editor you end up using... quite a few are scriptable. ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
