>> VB has a much better IDE than the IDE's for Python, although Eric3 is one of the best, and is absolutely free.
There is no binary distribution for Eric3 on MS Windows. The OP sounds like he is an exclusively windows programmer. While we are on topic, is there no one in the Python open source community who has a commercial license to Qt for Windows and can make a binary distribution for Eric3 for MS Windows? -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list