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+Notes on building Python 0.9.1
+==============================
+
+A note to [email protected] referred us to Guido's 0.9.1 release as
+a set of shell archive files posted to alt.sources:
+
+https://groups.google.com/g/alt.sources/search?q=%22python%200.9.1%22
+
+I downloaded them as well as a single patch. I then made a few edits
+to get the interpreter to build. The shar files as well as a single
+patch file Guido posted are in this directory. Note the missing
+part 02. As Guido explained:
+
+> In case anyone wondered where the real part 02 is, it isn't needed.
+> It contained a generated file of 151K that shouldn't be in the
+> distribution, and I cancelled it.
+> --
+> Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <[email protected]>
+> "PS I have never kissed the editor of the Radio Times"
+
+(I have no idea what is going on in Guido's .sig. You will have to ask
+him. <wink>)
+
+The patch didn't apply for me (structural issues), so I just applied
+its edits manually. I then set about getting the interpreter to
+compile. That was pretty straightforward. The result is in
+compile.patch in this directory.
+
+-- Skip Montanaro - 2021-02-16