

The drive name of a portable drive is unpredictable.Komodo Edit is a free and open source text editor for dynamic programming languages. Note that if you have portable python installed on a USB stick, you may need to edit the environment variable when you switch machines. Switch to the "Key Binding" tab and select whatever key you want (I use 'F5')

Make the following changes to the command in the resulting dialog: Right click in the toolbox and select Add -> New Command from the context menu. There's an icon for this on the main menu, or you can choose View -> Tabs and Sidebars -> Toolbox from the menu system. Inside Komodo Edit, turn on the Toolbox tab. It doesn't matter exactly where the file is, but you'll need to know that directory. Windows machines normally have a Python2* directory directly under the C drive. Do a search to discover exactly where the python executable is.

If you've installed python but it doesn't run from the command line, (or you have multiple versions installed) you'll need to do a little detective work first. If you can go to the command line, type 'python' and have the python interpreter pop up, you're good to go. The first thing you'll need to do is ensure you have Python up and running on your local machine. Komodo edit is perfect for web development in its default state, but if you want to edit Python code, you'll need a mechanism for running your Python programs. Feel free to check this out if you want, but the free version is fine for most use.) You can get Komodo edit for free from this site: (Note there is a commercial version called Komodo IDE. This terrific editor is available free for every operating system. My favorite of the current crop of editors is Komodo Edit. While I'm still partial to emacs, that's a bit heavy for beginning programmers.
