[Python-Dev] MacPython 2.1 released

[Jack Jansen]

MacPython 2.1 is available for download. Get it via
http://www.cwi.nl/~jack/macpython.html .


Python is a high-level programming language that is suitable for
simple scripting tasks as well as writing large
applications. MacPython offers alot of Mac-specific extensions,
including access to all major MacOS Toolbox modules (QuickDraw,
QuickTime, AppleScript and many more), an Integrated Development
Environment (in Python!), frameworks for windowing applications,
unix-compatible cgi-scripting, image-manipulation libraries, numerical
libraries, tk-based machine independent windowing and lots more. It
also uniquely among Pythons allows you to create fully selfcontained
(and, hence, distributable) applications without needing a C compiler
or anything.

New in this version:
- A choice of Carbon or Classic runtime, so runs on anything between
  MacOS 8.1 and MacOS X
- Distutils support for easy installation of extension packages
- BBedit language plugin
- All the platform-independent Python 2.1 mods
- New version of Numeric
- Lots of bug fixes
- Choice of normal and active installer

Please send feedback on this release to pythonmac-sig@python.org,
where all the MacPythoneers hang out.

Enjoy,


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