From 04d5c5827af1819d0b114655a3c5359bdd42a4a7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Jack Jansen Date: Fri, 10 Oct 1997 15:50:37 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Updated (but still not up to date) --- Mac/Demo/using.html | 18 +++++++++++------- 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-) diff --git a/Mac/Demo/using.html b/Mac/Demo/using.html index bb2fdd58796..16c1ea6fc73 100644 --- a/Mac/Demo/using.html +++ b/Mac/Demo/using.html @@ -31,8 +31,8 @@ Python's power.

Invoking the interpreter

The name of the interpreter may differ on different installations: it -may be called Python, PythonPPC (for powerpc -macs), PythonCFM68K orPython68K (both for 68K macs). +may be called PythonFAT (for powerpc macs and 68K macs with +CFM68K installed) or Python68K (for 68K macs). It will always be recognizable by the "16 ton" icon, though. You start the interpreter in interactive mode by double-clicking its icon:

@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ interpreter in interactive mode by double-clicking its icon:

This should give you a text window with an informative version string and a prompt, something like the following: 

-Python 1.5 (#0 Aug 27, 1997)  [CW PPC w/GUSI MSL]
+Python 1.5 (#12 Aug 27, 1997)  [CW PPC w/GUSI MSL]
 Copyright 1991-1997 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
 >>>
@@ -299,9 +299,8 @@ itself. Note that the text field may extend "beyond the bottom" even though it does not have a scroll bar. Using the arrow keys works, though.

-The Python home folder $(PYTHON) is initially, when you execute the -interpreter for the first time, set to the folder where the -interpreter lives. You can change it here.

+The Python home folder $(PYTHON) is initially, when you install Python, +set to the folder where the interpreter lives. You can change it here.

Finally, you can set the default startup options here, through a sub-dialog. @@ -373,6 +372,11 @@ message should actually say "Not enough memory in the system heap to load PythonCore". Blame Apple for the confusing message.

+There appear to be problems with QuickTime for the CFM68K version of the +interpreter. If you experience these please contact the SIG: some people +use quicktime without problems and some not, and we are still hunting for +the cause.

+ Python is a rather safe language, and hence it should be difficult to crash the interpreter of the system with a Python script. There is an exception to this rule, though: the modules that interface to the @@ -408,7 +412,7 @@ The next section to check out is the annotated sample progr

Jack Jansen, -jack@cwi.nl, 27-Aug-1997. +jack@cwi.nl, 08-Sep-1997.