[jodrellblank]

That rather depends on your definition of portable - I mean, even if they included win98, you'd still likely be stuck with Python 1.5 for Windows CE 1, and no Python for many systems.

That it works on several of the most common, different, platforms in use today, I vote that counts as "portable" - reasonably so.

Another way of looking at it is not how many Win98 systems are there, but that there is (presumably) nobody willing to jump in and argue and offer to support Python 2.6 on Win98 - so how in demand can it be?

[illume]

python 2.5 works fine with win95 and win98.

We're talking at least 1%-3%1 of machines on the internet here. That's a sizable chunk of people.

based on wc3 stats... which aren't all that representative.