While following Dramaking's thread about the .3ds exporter, I noticed that not only the .3ds exporter, but alot of the scripts don't work for me anymore in 2.44 Today, I downloaded the A.N.T. script, and it, too, had errors.
Ugh
It seems the built-in Python interpreter is no longer bundled with Blender!
After a couple of hours of downloading (I am on a weak connection), I finally got Python 2.5 downloaded and installed,(its about twice the size of Blender) and all the scripts are working again.
I am slightly upset about this. I have used Blender for quite some time and have never had to install Python. I am sure it is a great language and all, but I am a C man and will probably never use Python for anything.
I suppose in this day and age, what's a few more million bytes, right?
Oh well, just thought I would let you guys know.