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I am new to Python. I am supposed to launch an application and perform some tasks on the application from Python.
I found Python from python.org and ActivePython from activestate.com.
What is the difference between them? Which should I install?
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ActivePython from ActiveState is a commercial-grade, quality-assured Python distribution focusing on easy installation and cross-platform compatibility on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, HP-UX and AIX.
ActiveState Python is free to download, but there are some limits on use: you can have no more than one runtime active at any given time.
For security professionals, the ActiveState Platform provides: A catalog of vetted Python packages. A secure, universal build service that builds Python packages and dependencies from source code, including linked C libraries.
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 a bundle of Python executable with Python Windows Extensions and PEPS and Dive into Python ebook as package, so that you will have a good solution.
Technically there is not any difference between Python from activestate.com and from python.org if it available for download for your platform.
And yes, you can install Python 2.7.1 as it is latest supported version in 2.x series.
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