JoeUser

If you download and install python 2.4 from python.org, you get an IDE included in the download. It runs python in a completely seperate application from command prompt, and is much more versetile to play with than notepad. On annoying problem with cmd prompt is if your code has an error, your window will just close, and you won't be able to see the error. I suggest you download the latest version of python 2.4 at http://www.python.org and use IDLE to do your programming from now on. To use idle, just right click on your .py or .pyc file and click "edit with IDLE". I'm new to python too, and this really helped me

Just a quick question, since GUIs came up here. I was considering embarking on learning python GUIs to make a graphical chess program, but I'm seeing here that python might be a little weak on the GUI front. Should I bother to try with python or just use java? I'm really looking at ease of programming, not advanced GUI capabilities.