Question: Which Python to choose?

Steve Holden sholden at holdenweb.com
Fri Oct 12 07:09:54 EDT 2001


"Károly Ladvánszky" <ladvanszkykaroly at digicart.hu> wrote ...
> www.python.org and www.activestate.com seem to release their versions with
> almost identical version numbers, at very close release dates. Is there a
> linkage between the two or are they completely separate products? Which
one
> is more stable?
>
> Thanks for any advice,

ActiveState do not, as far as I know, try to "enhance" the Python core. They
do, however, package it differently, with (among other offerings, on Windows
only) Mark Hammond's very useful Win32all extensions.

It's fairly completely stated at:

    http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/Downloads/ActivePython/More

regards
 Steve
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