Python Official Sites

IronPython

IronPython is the code name of the early pre-alpha preview release of the new Implementation Running on .NET of the Python programming language. It supports an interactive interpreter with fully dynamic compilation. It is well integrated with the rest of the framework and makes all .NET libraries easily available to Python programmers.

Python for .NET

Python for .NET is a package that gives Python programmers nearly seamless integration with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) and provides a powerful application scripting tool for .NET developers. Using this package you can script .NET applications or build entire applications in Python, using .NET services and components written in any language that targets the CLR (Managed C++, C#, VB, JScript).

IronPython

IronPython is a new Python implementation targeting the .NET and Mono platforms.

Python Home Page

Python central site as Python.org

ActivePython

ActivePython is ActiveState's quality-assured binary build of Python, available for Linux, Solaris and Windows. As part of ActiveState's support for Python, we provide the ActivePython binary packages free to the community.

Official Python Download Page

Download the latest version of Python from this page.

Python Reference Manual

Release 2.1.1, July 20, 2001.

Python Library Reference

Official site at Python.org.

Python 2.1.1 Documentation

Download or browse online at Python.org.

Web Programming Topic Guide

This Topic Guide covers Web-related programming with Python. This includes a wide spectrum of tasks, ranging from simple CGI programming, generating and parsing HTML and XML, writing HTTP clients and servers

Database Topic Guide

This Topic Guide covers accessing relational databases from Python. The related issue of adding persistence to Python objects is also discussed. Links to relevant Python modules, documentation, and projects are provided.

Python Quick Reference

Downloadable Python reference.