activepython – Tarik Billa

What is the difference between ActivePython and Python?

December 6, 2023 by Tarik

ActiveState is an open source company which bundles Python with some additional packages and makes it available for variety of platforms. Sometimes they support platforms which the standard Python distrubution does not. For example AIX comes to my mind. Many beginners to python on Windows have this doubt when they start with Python. ActiveState provides … Read more

Why does ActivePython exist? [closed]

February 8, 2023 by Tarik

It’s a packaging, or “distribution”, of Python, with some extras — not (anywhere) quite as “Sumo” as Enthought’s huge distribution of “Python plus everything”, but still in a similar vein (and it first appeared much earlier). I don’t think you’re missing anything in particular, except perhaps the fact that David Ascher (Python enthusiast and my … Read more