[jp_sc]

But not a texteditor.

You can use this library for that: https://pypi.org/project/texteditor/

(Disclaimer: I’m the author)

[diogenesjunior]

There's not really a reason for a built in text editor

[jp_sc]

Is not a built in text editor, is a command to open programmatically your default text editor to edit a file (new or existing).

There are several cases when you would want to do that, for example, think on the git CLI, that opens one so you can write a commit message, etc.

And is not only about using the EDITOR variable, most non-programmers doesn’t have one defined or it points to vim or something equally terrible for non technical users.

[BiteCode_dev]

Idle

[ehsankia]

You missed the point of what the library does. Similar to webbrowser (which isn't a full browser), all it does is open your default text editor.