Python 2.0 or Activestate Python?

David Fuess fuess at att.net
Tue Feb 27 08:10:45 EST 2001


If you're working on a Windows platform, then you will want Mark
Hammond's  win32 classes anyway. ActiveState Python is a combined
Python 2 and Win32all in one simple install. Otherwise you'll install
one of the other Python 2 distributions and still have to go to
ActiveState to get Win32.

Dave

On Mon, 26 Feb 2001 23:37:19 -0800, "Brian Quinlan"
<brian at sweetapp.com> wrote:

>The license doesn't seem that restrictive to me, but you can peruse it
>yourself here:
>http://www.activestate.com/Legal/Active_Python_License_Agreement_Text.txt
>
>-----Original Message-----
>From: python-list-admin at python.org
>[mailto:python-list-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Tim Hammerquist
>Sent: Monday, February 26, 2001 10:49 PM
>To: python-list at python.org
>Subject: Re: Python 2.0 or Activestate Python?
>
>
>OneDay at A.Time <OneDay at A.Time> wrote:
>> Hello All,
>>
>> I have Python 2.0 and am looking for some enlightenment on Activestate
>Python.
>[ snip ]
>> What advanages does Activestate offer?
>
>A restrictive license and a little bit of commercialisation.
>
>--
>-Tim Hammerquist <timmy at cpan.org>
>Emacs is a nice OS - but it lacks a good text editor.
>That's why I am using Vim.
>	-- Anonymous




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