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Tim Peters 36a90f61e8 Thanks to LettError, Erik van Blokland, http://www.letterror.com/ the Python Windows installer finally has an attractive Pythonic bitmap to delight the senses and dampen the fears of the millions and millions of eager new Windows users anticipating their first Python programming joy. Always knew Mac users secretly wanted to switch to Windows <wink>.		2001-08-08 20:50:07 +00:00
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RPM	distutils setup files for Tkinter	2000-10-16 15:36:25 +00:00
ACKS	Thanks to	2001-08-08 20:50:07 +00:00
AIX-NOTES	Rename Setup.in to Setup.dist, and assume that configure will create	2000-10-26 17:07:40 +00:00
BeOS-NOTES	Completely revamped BeOS notes, by Donn Cave (SF patch 411834).	2001-04-10 21:51:29 +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	…
Makefile.pre.in	Separate CFLAGS and CPPFLAGS. CFLAGS should not contain preprocessor	2001-06-02 06:16:02 +00:00
NEWS	Derived from SF patch #446899 Permit import of .pyw under Windows, from	2001-08-04 08:12:36 +00:00
NEXT-NOTES	…
PURIFY.README	…
Porting	Patch #411138 : Rename config.h to pyconfig.h. Closes bug #231774 .	2001-07-26 13:41:06 +00:00
README	Updated to include all files here.	2000-09-01 23:22:12 +00:00
RFD	…
cheatsheet	Update cheatsheet to 2.0 from Brunning/Gruet's quick reference	2001-08-06 17:43:49 +00:00
find_recursionlimit.py	script that reports a fairly safe recursionlimit for a specific platform	2000-08-31 19:24:17 +00:00
gdbinit	PyObject_Dump() -> _PyObject_Dump()	2001-01-24 04:18:13 +00:00
indent.pro	…
python-mode.el	(py-version): Hopefully fixed my XEmacs settings so this doesn't get	2001-07-06 20:27:29 +00:00
python.man	Document the PYTHONY2K environment variable that had been left out of this	2001-07-26 21:25:58 +00:00
setuid-prog.c	…
unicode.txt	Replace the text with a link to the PEP-ified version.	2001-06-27 17:14:04 +00:00
vgrindefs	Add 'yield' as a keyword	2001-08-06 17:42:53 +00:00

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
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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)