Only a small fraction of Windows Python programmers use emacs. I am a
bit distressed that your article implies that Emacs is a pre-requisite
for Python on Windows. Nothing could be further from the truth! "Yes,
tragically, you will have to learn emacs if you have managed to resist
it up to this point." What about PythonWin, Komodo, Wing IDE, and all
of the other Windows IDEs and editors that are listed when you Google
"Python IDE".
My intention was to explain a setup that I personally like, gathering various sets of instructions from a bunch of different sources. This is not the only way to use Python on Windows, nor did I think it was when I wrote it. Agreed, the wording doesn't make this completely clear. Apologies to everybody who freaked out about it.