Thanks for your replies:

evstevemd: The demo example looks very nice, but the rich text that is shown is created on the fly in code. The actual control cannot load or save RTF files (at least in Linux).

jlm699: Yes, I found this example (Its an excellent thread and I spent ages reading through it!) but its only for Windows users. I'm not using windows and I still need an RTF control.

This has become a real problem for me. If there is no RichTextCtrl for Python under Linux then I'll have to move to a different language, which will be a shame, because I rather like Python. I find it a bit hard to believe that wxPython does not have any method to deal with RTF type files (By this I mean I'm happy to have an editor that uses HTML, just so long as it loads and saves the files properly).

Its a shame, but Iv a feeling that Ill have to move away from Python rather soon.

Regards

Max