AS Rant. WAS: shutil rant

[David LeBlanc]

Can you explain why PythonWin is needed to do any "serious" work on Windows?

Aside from the Windows Scripting Host interface, what other benefit does AS
Python in addition to Python and PythonWin? I would have thought the
prohibition on redistribution to 3rd parties of the AS distribution would
have been troublesome? It strikes me as "ActiveTaint" more then
"ActiveState".

David LeBlanc
Seattle, WA USA

> -----Original Message-----
> From: python-list-admin at python.org
> [mailto:python-list-admin at python.org]On Behalf Of Bjorn Pettersen
> Sent: Saturday, May 18, 2002 2:10
> To: Aahz; python-list at python.org
> Subject: RE: shutil rant
>
<snip>
> Seriously though, you can't do "any serious" work on windows without the
> win32 extensions. Since the ActiveState distribution comes bundled with
> these, we've standardized on it here. (there are of course other
> advantages to the ActiveState distribution also <wink>)
>
> -- bjorn