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Upload and changes to Python 0.9.1 release (from 1991!) so that it would compile
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README 

        
This is Python, an extensible interpreted programming language that

combines remarkable power with very clear syntax.



This is version 0.9 (the first beta release), patchlevel 1.



Python can be used instead of shell, Awk or Perl scripts, to write

prototypes of real applications, or as an extension language of large

systems, you name it.  There are built-in modules that interface to

the operating system and to various window systems: X11, the Mac

window system (you need STDWIN for these two), and Silicon Graphics'

GL library.  It runs on most modern versions of UNIX, on the Mac, and

I wouldn't be surprised if it ran on MS-DOS unchanged.  I developed it

mostly on an SGI IRIS workstation (using IRIX 3.1 and 3.2) and on the

Mac, but have tested it also on SunOS (4.1) and BSD 4.3 (tahoe).



Building and installing Python is easy (but do read the Makefile).

A UNIX style manual page and extensive documentation (in LaTeX format)

are provided.  (In the beta release, the documentation is still under

development.)



Please try it out and send me your comments (on anything -- the

language design, implementation, portability, installation,

documentation) and the modules you wrote for it, to make the first

real release better.  If you needed to hack the source to get it to

compile and run on a particular machine, send me the fixes -- I'll try

to incorporate them into the next patch.  If you can't get it to work

at all, send me a *detailed* description of the problem and I may look

into it.



If you want to profit of the X11 or Mac window interface, you'll need

STDWIN.  This is a portable window system interface by the same

author.  The versions of STDWIN floating around on some archives are

not sufficiently up-to-date for use with Python.  I will distribute

the latest and greatest STDWIN version at about the same time as Python.



I am the author of Python:



	Guido van Rossum

	CWI, dept. CST

	Kruislaan 413

	1098 SJ  Amsterdam

	The Netherlands



	E-mail: [email protected]



The Python source is copyrighted, but you can freely use and copy it

as long as you don't change or remove the copyright:



/***********************************************************

Copyright 1991 by Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, The

Netherlands.



                        All Rights Reserved



Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its 

documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, 

provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that

both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in 

supporting documentation, and that the names of Stichting Mathematisch

Centrum or CWI not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to

distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission.



STICHTING MATHEMATISCH CENTRUM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO

THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND

FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL STICHTING MATHEMATISCH CENTRUM BE LIABLE

FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES

WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN

ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT

OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.



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