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

[Andy McKay]

> So, if you want to do Python scripts/macros in Excel or Word (or IE?),
> you'll need to get AS Python. 

You can do most of that with the win32 modules. ActivePython bundles them for 
you, but its easy to install them yourself in a standard Python distro. 
http://starship.python.net/crew/mhammond/

-- 
  Andy McKay