"D.M. Procida" wrote in
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roughplanet wrote:

The commercial version of python is a lot faster than the free version
which is no slouch either. Printing is still a bit of a pain though.

What is "the comercial version of Python"?

The best of them IMHO is mxODBC (Open Database Connectivity) but don't be
misled by the title; the source code is NOT available

That's not a version of Python, it's an extension to Python.

In the same way a GUI is an extension to an OS perhaps? Systems like Unix
and Linux generally implement programming languages as an application
program that runs outside the operating system. Whether the proprieatary GUI
should be included as part of the programming language is a point of
contention. It's also what makes a commercial version of Python as well.

So unless you're writing code for a living, especially databases, you're
probably just as well served with the Linux version of Python, of which
version 3.01 (3.1 alpha 1) has just been released.

I'm sorry, this is making less and less sense. There is no such thing as
"the Linux version of Python".

Are you serious? There are 'versions' of Python specifically tailored for
Linux in the same way as there are 'versions' specifically tailored for
Unix, WinXP or Vista.
The Open Source versions are not, but IDE's, GUI frameworks, applications
based on Python, Python embedded as a scripting language in proprietary
software, and versions of Python taking advantage of specific OS
instructions all do.

ruff