ActivePython 2.0 Release

[Dale Strickland-Clark]

Indeed. Index help would be very handy.

But hardly the basis for a new 'product'

"Alex Martelli" <aleaxit at yahoo.com> wrote:

>"Dale Strickland-Clark" <dale at out-think.NOSPAMco.uk> wrote in message
>news:634vusk9nco8qem70ddo43t4qpgid30s1l at 4ax.com...
>> Yes, but how is this better then Python 2.0 + Win32all?
>
>That will depend on what's in win32all build 135, I guess.  Right
>now, I can't find it anywhere on ActiveState's site -- it only
>seems to have builds up to 134, so far.  If anybody has an URL
>for a build-135 to install on top of BeOpen Python 2.0 final, I
>would welcome that, of course...
>
>
>Apart from that, "one-stop-shopping" seems to be what the ActiveState
>build has going for it, as they claim themselves:
>
>> >ActiveState is committed to making Python easy to install and use on all
>> >major platforms. ActivePython contains the convenience of swift
>> >installation, coupled with commonly used modules, providing you with a
>> >total package to meets your Python needs. Additionally, for Windows
>users,
>> >ActivePython provides a suite of Windows tools, developed by Mark
>Hammond.
>
>I.e., one download, one install.  They have now added Tkinter too, I
>gather from their announcement-page (and, I guess/hope, IDLE as well).
>
>One little plus (from my POV) I noticed in their previous build is
>that the docs in the Windows build are in CHM, which I find quite
>preferable to bare HTML (built-in index and search, etc), although
>there were lots of defects in the .CHM themselves (missing/wrong
>indices, etc).
>
>
>Alex
>
>

Dale Strickland-Clark
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