Ann: ActivePython 2.1 (build 210)

[Remco Gerlich]

Stephen <news at myNOSPAM.org> wrote in comp.lang.python:
>     BeOpen was the company that sponsored GvR/et-al for the period when they
> released 2.0, so "BeOpen Python" is just 'Python 2.0'. For that
> 'distribution', ignore 'BeOpen', and just think, 'Python 2.0'. Its all it
> is, with a branded name on it. Now we're up to 2.1, and as far as I am
> aware, there are only two "distributions" of it.
> 
>     The Official one, which is downloadable from www.python.org, and the
> ActiveState one. ActivePython is the Official distribution, with a few bells
> and whistles added, I believe.

Including all of Mark Hammond's cool Windows stuff in the Windows version.
Nice.

There is also Pythonware's PY20, which hasn't been updated to 2.1 yet.
http://www.secretlabs.com/products/python/index.htm

It's Python 2.0, plus extra libraries many of which are developed mainly by
Pythonware. A cool feature is that on Windows, it installs in one directory,
needing nothing more, no registry settings, do .dlls in the windows
directory, etc. This should make it ideal for putting a Python installation
on a CDROM or so to be able to run your program independent of whatever the
user has installed himself.

-- 
Remco Gerlich