Why Activestate Python ?

[bobb]

"Fuzzyman" <michael at foord.net> wrote in message
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> [snip..]
> > > Fuzzy
> > >
> > > http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html
> >
> > i think there is an impression generally that Win32 is a harder build
> > platform for OSS projects than Linux-Unix.  Very unscientifically, I
> > think my reading of message boards supports that, at least for Apache,
> > Python, and their related modules.
> >
> > I've never tried to build it myself.
> >
> > The activestate distribution includes Help files in compiled html
> > format.  Which I do not prefer.  I just download the doc of interest
> > from the python site.
>
> The 'official' version also has docs in 'chm' format... which I
> personally find fine (particularly not having internet at home).

I have a heck of time with searching through the chm file w/ it , though.
(too many results).

>
> Regards,
>
>
> Fuzzy
>
> http://www.voidspace.org.uk/atlantibots/pythonutils.html