cpython/Misc
Guido van Rossum 4611df0ece This is for BeOS users who want to build all the modules. It's
modified from setup.py version "1.37" to support BeOS build.

Contributed by Donn Cave (SF patch 411830).
2001-04-10 21:50:09 +00:00
..
RPM distutils setup files for Tkinter 2000-10-16 15:36:25 +00:00
ACKS Fixing Itamar's name, as per his request. 2001-04-09 15:23:46 +00:00
AIX-NOTES Rename Setup.in to Setup.dist, and assume that configure will create 2000-10-26 17:07:40 +00:00
BLURB
BLURB.LUTZ
BLURB.WINDOWS
BeOS-NOTES Remove outdated information. Merge now dead BeOS/README-readline. I'm not 2001-02-16 04:35:20 +00:00
BeOS-setup.py This is for BeOS users who want to build all the modules. It's 2001-04-10 21:50:09 +00:00
HISTORY Added release dates (in some cases detemined by looking at the mtime 2000-09-04 17:24:24 +00:00
HPUX-NOTES
HYPE
Makefile.pre.in Get rid of weird @SET_CXX@ macro occurrence. 2001-01-23 01:53:41 +00:00
NEWS Remove the backed-out version requirement 2001-03-31 02:42:42 +00:00
NEXT-NOTES
PURIFY.README
Porting mini-faq on porting python 1998-08-10 16:36:48 +00:00
README Updated to include all files here. 2000-09-01 23:22:12 +00:00
RFD
cheatsheet
comparisons
editline-fix
faq2html.py
find_recursionlimit.py script that reports a fairly safe recursionlimit for a specific platform 2000-08-31 19:24:17 +00:00
fixfuncptrs.sh
gdbinit PyObject_Dump() -> _PyObject_Dump() 2001-01-24 04:18:13 +00:00
indent.pro
python-mode.el (py-parse-state): Teach python-mode how to scan code which follows 2001-02-24 00:09:17 +00:00
python.man Mention pydoc in the man page 2001-04-05 14:50:40 +00:00
renumber.py
setuid-prog.c correct bogus instructions 'ccoment out' -> 'uncomment' 1998-09-10 20:18:09 +00:00
unicode.txt Updated according to the changes made to the "s#" parser marker 2000-09-21 21:21:59 +00:00
vgrindefs

README

Python Misc subdirectory
========================

This directory contains files that wouldn't fit in elsewhere, in
particular the UNIX manual page, an Emacs mode for Python source code,
and a list of Frequently Asked Questions (and their answers).  Some
documents are only of historic importance.

Files found here
----------------

ACKS		Acknowledgements
AIX-NOTES	Notes for building Python on AIX (all new!)
BLURB		A quick description of Python for newcomers
BLURB.LUTZ	A testimonial from a converted Tcl/Perl hacker :-)
BLURB.WINDOWS	First announcement of Python for Windows
HISTORY		News from previous releases -- oldest last
HPUX-NOTES	Notes about dynamic loading under HP-UX
HYPE		More hype about Python
Makefile	Used for administrative chores like cleaning up
Makefile.pre.in	Generic Makefile template for building extensions
NEWS		News for this release
NEXT-NOTES	Porting notes for NeXT
PURIFY.README	Information for Purify users
Porting		Mini-FAQ on porting to new platforms
README		The file you're reading now
RFD		Request For Discussion about a Python newsgroup
cheatsheet	Quick summary of Python by Ken Manheimer
comparisons	(Old) comparisons to some other languages
editline-fix	A news article on how to fix R$'s editline for Python
faq2html	FAQ to HTML converter by Ka-Ping Yee
find_recursionlimit.py  Script to find a value for sys.maxrecursionlimit
fixfuncptrs.sh	Shell script to fix function pointer initializers
indent.pro	GNU indent profile approximating my C style
python-mode.el	Emacs mode for editing Python programs
python.man	UNIX man page for the python interpreter
renumber.py	Script to renumber the sections in the FAQ
setuid-prog.c	C helper program for set-uid Python scripts
unicode.txt	Marc-Andre Lemburg's specification of the Unicode API
vgrindefs	Python configuration for vgrind (a generic pretty printer)