ANN: ActivePython 2.4.3.12 is now available (bugfix for Windows)

[Trent Mick]

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?
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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 at 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
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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 at ActiveState.com