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If you dont want to install Xcode, you probably want TextWrangler for source code. There's plenty other options if that's not to your taste - the Python wiki includes a list of editors which may be a useful starting point. We list it here because its a powerful programming editor and its free.

Personally, I use TextWrangler - it's basic but free (I recommend customizing the preferences to bind the Run menu item to Cmd-R). Even if you did have a working Python OSA component, SE's a miserably poor tool.

As others have noted, the OP's screenshot is basically fake: you can write Python code in any text editor (even Script Editor), but you won't get syntax highlighting or be able to run it unless you use an editor that has those features built in. (Apple have added a new 'JavaScript for Automation' OSA component in 10.10, but it's full of crippled features and application incompatibilities, so while it might do for light use with some apps I would not touch it for serious production work either.) Plus the Carbon Component Manager API was deprecated in 10.8, so any third-party OSA components are dead in the water nowadays anyway. Mark Aldritt's JavaScriptOSA or my own PyOSA, both of which are long-dead). About Press Copyright Contact us Creators Advertise Developers Terms Privacy Policy & Safety How YouTube works Test new features NFL Sunday Ticket Press Copyright. The only third-party OSA language components were either really, really limited in capability, or didn't work quite right (e.g. In practice, however, AppleScript is the only OSA language that has ever been good enough for production use. CM was basically the classic Mac equivalent to Windows' COM, commonly used for Quicktime codecs plugins and other dynamically loaded code bundles, though it's pretty much been superseded by NSBundles and ObjC classes. In theory, an OSA-aware application can load and run scripts written in any scripting language, as long as an interpreter for that language has been packaged as a C-based Component Manager component. OSA is a plugin mechanism for scripting language interpreters.

Install textwrangler