ActiveState ActivePython is a CPython

CPython

CPython is the default, most-widely used implementation of the Python programming language. It is written in C. In addition to CPython, there are two other production-quality Python implementations: Jython, written in Java, and IronPython, which is written for the Common Language Runtime. There...

 distribution for Windows

Microsoft Windows

Microsoft Windows is a series of operating systems produced by Microsoft.Microsoft introduced an operating environment named Windows on November 20, 1985 as an add-on to MS-DOS in response to the growing interest in graphical user interfaces . Microsoft Windows came to dominate the world's personal...

, Mac OS X

Mac OS X

Mac OS X is a series of Unix-based operating systems and graphical user interfaces developed, marketed, and sold by Apple Inc. Since 2002, has been included with all new Macintosh computer systems...

, Linux

Linux

Linux is a Unix-like computer operating system assembled under the model of free and open source software development and distribution. The defining component of any Linux system is the Linux kernel, an operating system kernel first released October 5, 1991 by Linus Torvalds...

, Solaris, AIX and HP-UX

HP-UX

HP-UX is Hewlett-Packard's proprietary implementation of the Unix operating system, based on UNIX System V and first released in 1984...

, distributed by ActiveState

ActiveState

ActiveState is a Canadian software company headquartered in Vancouver, British Columbia. It develops, sells, and supports cross-platform development tools for dynamic languages such as Perl, PHP, Python, Ruby, and Tcl, as well as language distributions and enterprise services...

. Since version 2.6.3.7, ActivePython comes with PyPM (cross-platform Python Package Manager

Python Package Manager

Python Package Manager is a Python utility intended to simplify the tasks of locating, installing, upgrading and removing Python packages...

) that is used to install binary Python packages. ActivePython also includes PyWin32 and several other documentation/tutorials for Python.

Included Extentions

Core Extensions

• Tcl/Tk version
• ElementTree (xml.etree)
• OpenSSL
  OpenSSL
  OpenSSL is an open source implementation of the SSL and TLS protocols. The core library implements the basic cryptographic functions and provides various utility functions...
  
  .
• SQLite
  SQLite
  SQLite is an ACID-compliant embedded relational database management system contained in a relatively small C programming library. The source code for SQLite is in the public domain and implements most of the SQL standard...
  
   (sqlite3).
• ctypes.
• linux-ia64 build failures
• solaris-sparc build failures
• solaris-x86 build failures
• hpux-parisc libffi not ported to PA-RISC arch
• hpux-ia64 build failures
• Zlib
  Zlib
  zlib is a software library used for data compression. zlib was written by Jean-Loup Gailly and Mark Adler and is an abstraction of the DEFLATE compression algorithm used in their gzip file compression program. Zlib is also a crucial component of many software platforms including Linux, Mac OS X,...
  
  .
• BZip2
  Bzip2
  bzip2 is a free and open source implementation of the Burrows–Wheeler algorithm. It is developed and maintained by Julian Seward. Seward made the first public release of bzip2, version 0.15, in July 1996.-Compression efficiency:...
  
  .

Extra Extensions

• The Python for Windows Extensions (PyWin32 version 214).
• The interface to the Win32 API (win32api).
• The interfaces to Win32 COM (win32com and win32comext).
• The Pythonwin Development Environment.

Documentation

ActivePython documentation also includes documentation for:

• Core Python language documentation

• Andrew Kuchling's What's New in Python documentation series

• Python Frequently Ask Questions List (For the most recent version, refer to the Python FAQs on python.org.)

• Python HOWTOs

• A snapshot of the Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs) (For the most recent version, refer to the PEPs on python.org .)

• Dive Into Python (A tutorial for programmers)

• Non-Programmers Tutorial For Python

• PyWin32 Extensions Reference

External links

• Official Product Page
• Why does activepython exist