ActivePython 2.6.1.1 and 3.0.0.0 released!

[Trent Mick]

I'm happy to announce that ActivePython 2.6.1.1 and ActivePython 3.0.0.0
are now available.

Details and download links for 2.6 here:
http://www.activestate.com/Products/activepython/feature_list.mhtml

Details and download links for 3.0 here:
http://www.activestate.com/Products/activepython/python3.mhtml

All ActivePython downloads (e.g. for older releases) are available here:
http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePython/


ActivePython 3.0.0.0 is the first release of ActivePython for Python 3.
ActivePython 2.6.1.1 is a patch release based on Python 2.6.1.


What is ActivePython?
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ActivePython is ActiveState's binary distribution of Python. Builds for
Windows, Mac OS X, Linux, HP-UX and AIX are made freely available.

ActivePython includes the Python core and the many core extensions: zlib
and bzip2 for data compression, the Berkeley DB (bsddb) and SQLite
(sqlite3) database libraries, OpenSSL bindings for HTTPS support, the
Tix GUI widgets for Tkinter, ElementTree for XML processing, ctypes (on
supported platforms) for low-level library access, and others.

The Windows distribution ships with PyWin32 -- a suite of Windows tools
developed by Mark Hammond, including bindings to the Win32 API and
Windows COM. Note that currently PyWin32 is not included in ActivePython
3.0. See this page for full details:
http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/2.6/whatsincluded.html
http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/3.0/whatsincluded.html

As well, ActivePython ships with a wealth of documentation for both new
and experienced Python programmers. In addition to the core Python docs,
ActivePython includes the "What's New in Python" series, "Dive into
Python", the Python FAQs & HOWTOs, and the Python Enhancement Proposals
(PEPs).

An online version of the docs can be found here:
http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/2.6/welcome.html

We would welcome any and all feedback to:
(e-mail address removed)

Please file bugs against ActivePython at:
http://bugs.activestate.com/query.cgi?set_product=ActivePython



On what platforms does ActivePython run?
----------------------------------------

ActivePython includes installers for the following platforms:

- Windows/x86
- Mac OS X
- Linux/x86
- Linux/x86_64 ("x86_64" is also known as "AMD64")
- Solaris/SPARC
- Solaris/SPARC (64-bit)
- Solaris/x86
- HP-UX/PA-RISC
- AIX/PowerPC


Extra Bits
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ActivePython releases also include the following:

- ActivePython26.chm & ActivePython30.chm: An MS compiled help
collection of the full ActivePython documentation set. Linux users of
applications such as xCHM might find this useful. This package is
installed by default on Windows.

Extra bits are available from:
http://downloads.activestate.com/ActivePython/etc/


Thanks, and enjoy!

Trent, Python Tech Lead

 

[Kay Schluehr]

Note that currently PyWin32 is not included in ActivePython 3.0.

Is there any activity in this direction?

 

[Méta-MCI \(MVP\)]

Hi!

M. Hammond said (wrote) said that the work is enormous, because
modifications of the C architecture of Python 3 was largely modified.

(sorry for my bad english)

 

[Trent Mick]

Is there any activity in this direction?

The PyWin32 CVS tree is getting checkins from Mark Hammond and Roger
Upole with a py3k tag. I'm not sure how close they are currently.

Trent