Download Standard Python Software

(Most ports are now version 1.5.2; some of the less popular ones are still version 1.5 or older.)

• Windows 95/98 and NT (Intel)
• Macintosh
• Linux
• OS/2
• Windows 3.1
• DOS
• Other platforms (Amiga, BeOS, QNX, VMS, Psion, Windows CE, RISC OS, VxWorks, Alpha/NT)
• Source (All Unix variants: Linux, Sun Solaris, SGI IRIX, DEC Unix, IBM AIX, HP-UX, SCO, NeXT, BSD, FreeBSD, NetBSD; and Windows)
• Python Bugs List
• Public read-only CVS tree (for you bleeding-edge developers out there!)
• Python 1.6 (alpha and beta releases)

Other Items to Download

• Specifics on Python 1.5.2 - the latest version.

• A newer version is available of IDLE - the portable Integrated DeveLopment Environment for Python in Python.

• Looking for 3rd party Python modules? The Vaults of Parnassus has them all.

• The latest modules and other Python news are announced on our News page.

• You can view the standard documentation online, or you can download it in HTML, PostScript, PDF and other formats. See the the main Documentation page.

• Tip: even if you download a ready-made binary for your platform, it makes sense to also download the source. This lets you browse the standard library (the subdirectory Lib) and the standard collections of demos (Demo) and tools (Tools) that come with it. There's a lot you can learn from the source!

• There is also a collection of Emacs packages that the Emacsing Pythoneer might find useful. This includes major modes for editing Python, C, C++, Java, etc., Python debugger interfaces and more. Most packages are compatible with Emacs and XEmacs.

Want to contribute? See the Python Patch Guidelines and a couple of hints on starting your own project.

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Python source, binaries for all platforms and documentation are also available on CD-ROM. This CD-ROM was compiled and published by Dr. Dobb's Journal.