AS Rant. WAS: shutil rant

[Philip Swartzleonard]

David LeBlanc || Sat 18 May 2002 10:19:07a:

> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>>
> <snip>
>> Seriously though, you can't do "any serious" work on windows without
>> the win32 extensions. Since the ActiveState distribution comes
>> bundled with these, we've standardized on it here. (there are of
>> course other advantages to the ActiveState distribution also <wink>)
>>
>> -- bjorn
> 
> 
> 
> Can you explain why PythonWin is needed to do any "serious" work on
> Windows? 
> 
> Aside from the Windows Scripting Host interface, what other benefit
> does AS Python in addition to Python and PythonWin? I would have
> thought the prohibition on redistribution to 3rd parties of the AS
> distribution would have been troublesome? It strikes me as
> "ActiveTaint" more then "ActiveState".

Er, he's not saying pythonwin is essential to working in windows, he's 
saying win32all is, and it comes with pythonwin so they just use that. 
You can get it seperatly. And it's not really essential unless you need 
to write stuff that uses native win32 api calls-- it realy depends on 
what you're doing. (If you want to send windows messages to another 
program to control it, like you can with winamp, you'd need to use 
this... if you are just making a program that's not really tied to the 
OS you don't. You can, but you don't)


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