Time to bundle PythonWin

[Dave Benjamin]

Hey folks,

Why is PythonWin (win32all) still a separate download from a third party? 
Is it legal, technical, or what? I think it's about time it be part of the 
standard distribution.

There are many useful things that you ought to be able to do without 
downloading third-party libraries. Terminating a process, for example. 
Communicating with other applications via a standard, common protocol 
(COM). We demand these things from our UNIX environments--why do we 
tolerate their omission on the Windows platform?

Mac libraries are bundled with Python's *standard library*. I'm not even 
advocating merging the win32 extensions with the standard library. All I'm 
saying is that when you install Python on Windows, it should ask you if 
you want to install PythonWin too, and that this option be selected by 
default.

I write applications that use COM and Tkinter to automate basic office 
tasks. My users are thankfully benevolent enough to download and install 
Python on their own. They don't know what PythonWin is, they aren't 
remembering it, and frankly, I don't think it should be their concern.

It's time to bundle PythonWin.

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