ActivePython vs. Python

Brian Quinlan brian at sweetapp.com
Fri Apr 19 03:22:46 EDT 2002


Ville wrote:
> One drawback appears to be it's reliance on ActiveState (which has to
> consider such things as profit - and it also provides ActivePerl ;-).
> There was a long period when nothing happened with ActivePython, which
> no doubt alarmed many people.

It's not like ActivePython locks you in; it's just a nicer packaging of
PythonLabs Python. 

For Windows, I would certainly choose ActivePython over PythonLabs
Python, if ActivePython is available for the Python version that I want.

Cheers,
Brian






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