ActiveState is pleased to announce ActivePython 3.1.2.4, a complete, ready-to-install binary distribution of Python 3.1. A major update in this release is that PyPM (ActiveState's Python Package Manager) is now included with full support for installing Python 3 packages. http://www.activestate.com/activepython What's New in ActivePython-3.1.2.4 ================================== *Release date: 26-Oct-2010* New Features & Upgrades ----------------------- - PyPM (beta) for Python 3 - New tools: Distribute, virtualenv5, SQLAlchemy - [Windows] Installer upgrade: automatically uninstall previous versions - Bug #87783 - [MacOSX] 64-bit support; uses Tcl/Tk 8.5 - [Linux] Include Tcl/Tk development files - Security upgrade to openssl-0.9.8o Noteworthy Changes & Bug Fixes ------------------------------ - [Windows] Include IDLE in the Start Menu shortcut, instead of PythonWin - [Windows] Add file extension to Tools\scripts\2to3.py - Bug #87465 - [Windows] Add "python3.exe" - Bug #87275 - [Windows] Renamed "python31.exe" to "python3.1.exe" (Unix like) - [MacOSX] Fix uninstall on Snow Leopard (10.6) - [MacOSX] Fix Help index on Snow Leopard (10.6) - Bug #87290 - Bug #87600: create a `idleX.Y` script on unix What is ActivePython? ===================== ActivePython is ActiveState's binary distribution of Python. Builds for Windows, Mac OS X, Linux are made freely available. Solaris, HP-UX and AIX builds, and access to older versions are available in ActivePython Business, Enterprise and OEM editions: http://www.activestate.com/python 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. ActivePython 2.6, 2.7 and 3.1 also include a binary package manager for Python (PyPM) that can be used to install packages much easily. For example: C:\>pypm install mysql-python [...] C:\>python
import MySQLdb
See this page for full details: http://docs.activestate.com/activepython/3.1/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/3.1/ We would welcome any and all feedback to: activepython-feedback@activestate.com Please file bugs against ActivePython at: http://bugs.activestate.com/enter_bug.cgi?product=ActivePython Supported Platforms =================== ActivePython is available for the following platforms: - Windows/x86 (32-bit) - Windows/x64 (64-bit) (aka "AMD64") - Mac OS X (32-bit and 64-bit; 10.5+) - Linux/x86 (32-bit) - Linux/x86_64 (64-bit) (aka "AMD64") - Solaris/SPARC (32-bit and 64-bit) (Business, Enterprise or OEM edition only) - Solaris/x86 (32-bit) (Business, Enterprise or OEM edition only) - HP-UX/PA-RISC (32-bit) (Business, Enterprise or OEM edition only) - HP-UX/IA-64 (32-bit and 64-bit) (Enterprise or OEM edition only) - AIX/PowerPC (32-bit and 64-bit) (Business, Enterprise or OEM edition only) More information about the Business Edition can be found here: http://www.activestate.com/business-edition Custom builds are available in the Enterprise Edition: http://www.activestate.com/enterprise-edition Thanks, and enjoy! The Python Team -- Sridhar Ratnakumar sridharr at activestate.com