The REALLY bad thing about Python lists ..

Glyph Lefkowitz glyph at twistedmatrix.com
Wed May 17 16:44:56 EDT 2000


Jeff Bauer <jbauer at rubic.com> writes:

> Glyph Lefkowitz wrote:
> > The point being, of course, more Linux users have 
> > tar than Windows users have WinZip, and more Linux
> > users have Python than Windows users do; but I am 
> > sure that GNU tar is downloaded less than WinZip.
> 
> Why does this matter?  Python for Windows is available 
> (py152.exe) as a self-extracting .exe file.

MySoftware for Windows is not available as a self-extracting .exe
file, however ;-).  I am currently working on a way to get the entire
thing installed by haivng a single .pyw file that grabs all the other
files it needs from my website, but until then, it comes in a .zip.
Which people have to unarchive, somehow.

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