Python 2.4 killing commercial Windows Python development ?

[Peter Lee]

>>>> Terry Reedy writes:

    >> To put it another way, needing a Python interpreter to run .py files is no 
    >> different from, for instance, needing a movie player to run .mpg files, and 
    >> all Windows users are or need to become familiar with that general concept.

The problem for windows users isn't that they have to download a movie
player to play .mpg files... it's that they also have to download and
install python/java runtime to "play" the player because it was written
in python/java.  Most won't bother and will download/install native
win32 app instead.