Couple of Qs: ActiveState or "standard" distribution? (and GUI toolkits)

[Chris]

A couple of newbie questions (for the future, right now I am speedking 
through Learning Python):

1) Is there any compelling reason for choosing an installer from python.org 
instead of the ActiveState distribution for my Windoze machine? I have 
both, and they seem quite similar, right down to the editor and GUI 
shell...

2) What graphic toolkit should I use? I see talk about TKInter, wxPython 
etc etc. I have a few criterion: I'd rather not learn another language 
(TCL?) at the same time, I'll be primarily developing for use on Windows, 
though being able to move cross-platform would be cool, I'd like something 
that is in active development. Where should I start?