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- ActivePython changes to Python
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- This document describes changes made to the core Python sources by
- ActiveState Tool Corp. for the ActivePython distribution.
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- 1. The Python interactive shell version/copyright-info message was extended
- to properly identify the Python executable as ActivePython (with the
- appropriate ActivePython version number).
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- 2. Aesthetic changes were made to the standard Python documentation.
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- 3. Add the "help" command which calls Ping's pydoc.help
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- 4. Include the Tools/ directory in the installation. (a change to
- the Un*x make install target).
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- 5. Minor build system changes to compile the _tkinter Python extension
- module.
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- 6. Improve the error messages for Ping's pydoc when it is called from
- Unix with a wrong version of Python.
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- ActiveState Tool Corp.
- 18 April, 2001
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