Why Activestate Python ?

[Andrei]

Fuzzyman wrote on 9 Apr 2004 01:25:45 -0700:

> Again... a silly newbie question which might have an obvious
> answer.... but *why* is their an alternative distribution of python by
> activestate ?
> 
> Apart fromt he fact that they bundle Mark Hammond's Windows Extensions
> with it (in the windows version) - what is to be gained from using
> their distributio instead of the 'normal' one ?

You also get PythonWin and nice docs. Python might have good HTMLHelp
format docs by now as well, but last time I tried, there were many broken
things in it. At some point I was running an official Py2.3<something>
because ActiveState was a bit slow in releasing a 2.3 version, but I
continued to use the docs from ActiveState Py 2.2.X. Now I have their 2.3.2
distribution installed.

Apart from that, it's Python. Depending on what your usage pattern is, you
might not even notice what you have on your HD.

-- 
Yours,

Andrei

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