Multiple issues primary sources October 2011 notability October 2011 refimprove December 2009 ActiveState ActivePython is a CPython distribution for Microsoft Windows Windows , Mac OS X , Linux , Solaris operating system Solaris , IBM AIX operating system AIX and HP UX , distributed by ActiveState . Since version 2.6.3.7, ActivePython comes with PyPM cross platform Python Package Manager that is used to install binary Python packages. ref http blogs.activestate.com 2009 10 pypm a package manager for python ref ActivePython also includes PyWin32 and several other documentation tutorials for Python. Included Extentions Core Extensions Tcl Tk version ElementTree xml.etree OpenSSL . SQLite sqlite3 . Foreign function interface 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 . BZip2 . 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 See also ActiveState ActivePerl ActiveTcl External links http www.activestate.com activepython Official Product Page http stackoverflow.com questions 1352528 why does activepython exist Why does activepython exist References references DEFAULTSORT Activepython Category Python programming language compu lang stub ru ActivePython ... more details