Mike Krell mbk.lists at gmail.com
Fri Dec 8 20:27:12 CET 2006

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> I think this is Python's popularity. One factor is ready availability:
> "normal" users don't build Python from source. So Windows users download
> it from python.org, everybody else gets the binaries from the OS vendor.

Another factor is that the ActiveState ActivePython distribution for
Windows isn't available for 2.5 yet.  Early adopters have even fewer
places to go than normal.

   Mike

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