I'm happy to announce that ActivePython 2.4.3.12 builds for Windows are now available for free download from: http://www.ActiveState.com/Products/ActivePython/ This is a bug fix release to for one Windows issue: - Fix a bug that results in ".pyo" and ".pyc" being placed on the PATHEXT environment variable before ".py" for clean installs. Bug 33311. This can cause surprises for command-line usage for Python scripts when not specifying the ".py" extension. The new installer will fix PATHEXT on machines that hit this bug. See this thread for more details: http://tinyurl.com/poyhp If you use ActivePython on any other platform, 2.4.3.11 is still the latest build. What is ActivePython? --------------------- ActivePython is ActiveState's quality-assured binary distribution of Python. Builds for AIX, HP-UX, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, and Windows are made freely available. ActivePython includes the Python core and core extensions (zlib 1.2.3, bzip2 1.0.3, bsddb 4.2.52.NC, Tk 8.4.12, and Tix 8.1.4) and is fully compatible with other Python distributions of the same version. ActivePython also includes a wealth of Python documentation, including: - the core Python docs; - Andrew Kuchling's "What's New in Python" series; - the Non-Programmer's Tutorial for Python; - Mark Pilgrim's excellent "Dive into Python"; and - a snapshot of the Python FAQs, HOWTOs, and PEPs. An online version of the docs can be found here: http://aspn.activestate.com/ASPN/docs/ActivePython/2.4/welcome.html We would welcome any and all feedback to: ActivePython-feedback@ActiveState.com Please file bugs against ActivePython at: http://bugs.ActiveState.com/ActivePython On what platforms does ActivePython run? ---------------------------------------- ActivePython now includes installers for the following ten platforms: - AIX/PowerPC - HP-UX/PA-RISC - Linux/x86 - Linux/x86_64: "x86_64" is also known as "AMD64" - Solaris/SPARC - Solaris/x86 - Mac OS X/PowerPC - Mac OS X/x86 - Windows/x64: "x64" is also known as "AMD64" - Windows/x86 Extra Bits ---------- ActivePython releases also include the following packages: - Windows "debug" package: Debug-built binaries for ActivePython users building debug versions of their binary Python extensions. - ActivePython24.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. These packages are available from: ftp://ftp.activestate.com/ActivePython/etc/ Thanks, and enjoy! Trent, Python Tech Lead -- Trent Mick TrentM@ActiveState.com