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@@ -0,0 +1,71 @@ +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. + +******************************************************************/ |