Active State and Komodo...

Steve Thompson sthompson at creativewebnet.com
Fri Nov 24 10:56:38 EST 2006


On Fri, 24 Nov 2006 07:09:36 -0800, BartlebyScrivener wrote:

> Steve Thompson wrote:
>>
>> I was wondering the differnced there were betwee Active State's python and
>> the open source version of python.
> 
> The biggest difference at the moment is that ActiveState is still using
> Python 2.4.3 in their distribution. They should be coming out with 2.5
> soon.
> 
> Sounds like you are running Suse?  So you already have some version of
> Python, right? You can search this group at comp.lang.python on Google
> Groups--try "python versions linux"--or something like that--but the
> issue you need to watch out for is running two different versions on
> Linux.
> 
> Long and short, you don't want to uninstall the version of Python that
> came with your Suse, because other programs on your machine probably
> use that particular version. It's easy to install an ADDITIONAL
> distribution of Python and run it separately, but again. Search the
> list
> for how to do that, and how to run them separately once you do.
> 
> I'm just moving to Linux myself, so can't provide the expertise. Unless
> there is some killer feature of 2.5 you need, I would just use the
> Python that came with your Suse.
> 
> rd

Thanks BartlebyScrivener, but are there any other IDE's that are better,
in your opinion, than Eric version 3. I'm using gnome and eric is built
for KDE. I don't care it there open source or Id I have tp puchase one.

Thanks again,

Steve



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