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@@ -5,43 +5,43 @@ 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 +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 +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 +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 +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 +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 +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 + Guido van Rossum + CWI, dept. CST + Kruislaan 413 + 1098 SJ Amsterdam + The Netherlands - E-mail: [email protected] + 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: @@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ as long as you don't change or remove the copyright: Copyright 1991 by Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. - All Rights Reserved + All Rights Reserved Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, |