Programming Python can be extremely frustrating.  Docs are almost always incomplete and overly brief.  Finding stuff is tedious, forcing me to grep over all the modules.  Pythonwin IDE feels less than half finished.  Urgh.  Great deal of my frustrations were erased by Boa Constructor.  While Boa is still in development, its better than Pythonwin by a mile already.  Just install the 0.2 version and then pour the CVS version on top to fix at least one minor but irritating bug that prevents Boa from coming up on some machines.  Enjoy.