Python is a language not a programming appliance. Just like VB and C++ are languages (Visual Studio is the programming appliance or IDE). I the standard python distribution ships with a basic editor and IDE (called idle). The editor should work fine in poser-python, but I don't know about the rest (and it's 'intellesense' is somewhat limited). I think there also are some object browsers around, again I don't know if they will work in poser-python. I'm very partial to my programming editor so I'm not looking for another programming environment. I use this programming editor for most of my work when programming any language. I burned it on to a credit-card CD-rom and carry it around with me in my wallet everywhere. Most often I use an IDE just for compiling and debugging.