ActiveState - ActivePython - The industry-standard Python distribution.

ActivePython - The industry-standard Python distribution.

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ActivePython

ActivePython is the industry-standard Python distribution, available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX. Developers worldwide rely on ActivePython's completeness and ease-of-use, while corporate users protect their infrastructure and stay competitive with quality-assured ActivePython business solutions.

ActivePython is 100% compatible with the reference distribution of Python. Code tested with ActivePython will run on any Python installation that has the appropriate extensions installed.

Current Releases

  • ActivePython 2.6.0.0
  • ActivePython 2.5.2.2

ActiveState is committed to making Python easy to install and use on all major platforms. This release of ActivePython brings you the most stable release of Python in binary form. It also includes up-to-date builds of the popular core extensions, such as OpenSSL, Tkinter and bzip2.

Highlights in ActivePython

Wide platform support

ActivePython provides easy-to-use and reliable installers for a wide variety of platforms:

  • Windows
  • Mac OS X (Universal package)
  • Solaris (SPARC and x86)
  • Linux (x86 and x86_64)
  • HP-UX
  • AIX
Python for Windows extensions

ActivePython on Windows (x86) includes the popular PyWin32 extensions that provide bindings to much of the Windows API and to Windows COM.

Up-to-date core extensions

ActivePython includes up-to-date builds of all the common core extensions that give Python its "batteries-included" name: zlib and bzip2 for data compression, the SQLite (sqlite3) database libraries, the Tix GUI widgets for Tkinter, ElementTree for XML processing, ctypes (on supported platforms) for low-level library access, the new multiprocessing library in Python 2.6, and others.

See What's Included in the online documentation for full details.

Rich and complete documentation

In addition to the full core Python documentation, many additional resources are included in ActivePython:

Full binary compatibility with core Python

ActivePython is fully binary compatible with python.org Python builds to ensure that 3rd-party binary extensions just work.

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