Which python installation should I use?

Question

I'm about to refresh myself in programming and I have decided on Python 2.6 for that. I have searched the net and it gave me two possible installers for download. One is from the Python site and another is from Activestate. Which one should I install on my Windows computer?

Answer 1

ActiveState gives you paid support. While this may be very important / critical to some companies, most do just fine with python.org version, particularly those who experiment.

There are other crazy ones like Stackless Python, Google's implementation in C++, Cython, etc. I would say that those are not that important to you unless speed / efficient multithreading is a must.

Use the regular one. CPython may be an order of magnitude slower than C, but it works just fine AND it is the most popular Python implementation out there, so you know it is well-tested for a free version.

Answer 2

I suggest you to download from python site