VANCOUVER, British Columbia – August 21, 2000 – ActiveState's first distribution of Python is now available on Linux, Solaris and Windows. Free to the community, ActivePython includes core Python and some commonly used external modules such as Python Developer Mark Hammond's popular suite of Windows tools.

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