[Zope] What am I getting with a plone windows installer?

I recently installed plone from plone.org, just curious what's the difference between the python installation that's bundle with plone and/or zope and a stand-alone python installation? Can I use the bundled python installation as the base for other applications that need python, like wxPython? Joseph Thomas College of American Pathologists http://www.cap.org <http://www.cap.org/> Consider our environment; please print this e-mail only if truly necessary. Thank you!