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- Host: ftp.cwi.nl
- Directory: /pub/python
- Owner: Guido van Rossum <guido@cwi.nl>
-
- This directory contains the Python distribution and related files.
-
- Python is a portable extensible interpreted object-oriented
- programming language with a friendly syntax. Python is somewhat
- similar to Perl and Tcl, but has a nicer syntax, is object-oriented,
- and better suited for writing large programs. For an introduction to
- the language, fetch the Postscript documentation and print the
- tutorial (the file tut.ps).
-
- ==> For a quick start, get python1.0.1.tar.Z -- it is the complete
- source distribution and includes documentation (in LaTeX).
-
- ==> All Python documentation is accessible on-line using Mosaic or
- other World-Wide-Web browsers. Point your browser to
- http://www.cwi.nl/~guido/Python.html and start from there (also
- for quicker access to the source!).
-
- This directory is mirrored at the following places:
-
- gatekeeper.dec.com 16.1.0.2 /pub/plan/python/cwi
- ftp.uu.net 192.48.96.9 /languages/python
- ftp.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 /graphics/graphics/sgi-stuff/python
-
- Or use archie to find the nearest copy.
-
- For use on a Mac or PC, fetch the appropriate interpreter executable
- as well as pythonlib1.0.1.tar.Z (unless you already have the complete
- source).
-
- An overview of the files found here:
-
- *** Python source and documentation:
-
- python1.0.1.tar.Z Current source distribution
- pythondoc-ps1.0.1.tar.Z Postscript of documentation
- maclibunix.shar Subroutines needed to compile on the Mac
- python-NEWS-1.0.1 News in the latest release
- python-NEWS-1.0.0 News in the previous release
- python-lib-info.tar.gz The library reference as Emacs info files
- pythonlib1.0.1.tar.Z The Python library (subset of release)
- mailinglist.gz Archives of the Python mailing list, this year
- mail1993.gz Archives of the Python mailing list, 1993
- mail1992.gz Archives of the Python mailing list, 1992
- extensions.tar.gz Extensions for the 1.0.1 release
- demo2.tar.gz More demo code for the 1.0.1 release
- patch1.Z Patches to turn 1.0.0 into 1.0.1
-
- *** Python binaries for PC and Mac:
-
- python.sea.hqx.Z Python 1.0.0 for the Macintosh,
- includes Lib and Lib:stdwin subdirectories
- pythonprojects.sit.hqx Empty Think C 5.0 project files used
- to build Python 1.0.0 for the Macintosh
- qwpython.exe.Z MS Windows executable (1.0.1)
- 16python.exe.Z MS-DOS executable (1.0.1)
- 32python.tar.Z 32-bit MS-DOS executable, for 386/486 (1.0.0)
- ntpython.exe.gz Windows NT executable (1.0.1)
- ntpath.py A module needed by ntpython.exe
-
- *** Postscript of papers on Python:
-
- nluug-paper.ps Paper written for the dutch UNIX users group
- nluug-slides.ps Presentation for the dutch UNIX users group
- delegation.ps Paper by Peter Bosch (VU Amsterdam)
- "Inheritance vs. Delegation"
- thesis-miale.ps B.Sc. thesis of Steve Miale (U of Virginia)
- on extending Python
-
- *** Miscellaneous:
-
- sousa.au Monty Python's Flying Circus sounds
- INDEX This file in plaintext
- index.html This file in HTML
-
- Note: Sometimes you will see empty files lying around here. These are
- obsolete files; when I plan to remove a file, I first truncate it, and
- after a week or so I delete it. This is done because some mirror
- sites don't remove files from their mirror that are no longer in the
- original directory; by giving them an empty file first, at least they
- will not waste much disk space on those files...
-
- (A .Z extension on any file means it is compressed with "compress"; a
- .gz extension means it is compressed with "gzip". After stripping .Z
- or .gz, the extensions mean the following: *.tar: tar file; *.exe:
- MS-DOS executable; *.shar: self-unpacking shell archive; *.hqx:
- Macintosh BinHex 4.0; *.sit.hxq: StuffIt Light(TM) Mac archive encoded
- using BinHex 4.0; *.sea.hxq: Self-extracting Mac archive encoded using
- BinHex 4.0; *.ps: PostScript; everything else: plain text.)
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