From 8d90f9d551d16d592e61280ede70fa6d418aa022 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Guido van Rossum Date: Thu, 22 May 1997 20:13:25 +0000 Subject: [PATCH] Minor edits for 1.5a2 --- README | 35 +++++++++++++++++++++-------------- 1 file changed, 21 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-) diff --git a/README b/README index 1a18704aed9..1fb3e6487f4 100644 --- a/README +++ b/README @@ -1,4 +1,4 @@ -This is Python release 1.5 alpha 1 +This is Python release 1.5 alpha 2 ================================== ****************************************** @@ -24,7 +24,7 @@ What is Python anyway? ---------------------- Python is an interpreted object-oriented programming language, and is -often compared to Tcl, Perl, Scheme or Java. For a quick summary of +often compared to Tcl, Perl, Java or Scheme. For a quick summary of what Python can mean for a UNIX/C programmer, read Misc/BLURB.LUTZ. If you have web access, point your browser to http://www.python.org. @@ -37,11 +37,11 @@ directory as tut.tex; and http://www.python.org/doc/tut/tut.html). Aaron Watters wrote a second tutorial, that may be more accessible for some: http://www.wcmh.com/uworld/archives/95/tutorial/005.html. -There are now also two books on Python. While these are still based -on Python 1.3 or 1.4, the language is so stable now that you'd be -hard pressed to find places where the books are out of date. The -books, both first published in October 1996 and both including a -CD-ROM, form excellent companions to each other: +There are now also several books on Python. While these are still +based on Python 1.3 or 1.4, the language is so stable now that you'd +be hard pressed to find places where the books are out of date. The +first two books, both first published in October 1996 and both +including a CD-ROM, form excellent companions to each other: Internet Programming with Python by Aaron Watters, Guido van Rossum, and James Ahlstrom @@ -53,6 +53,13 @@ CD-ROM, form excellent companions to each other: O'Reilly & Associates ISBN: 1-56592-197-6 +If you prefer to read German, try: + + Das Python-Buch + by Martin von Loewis and Nils Fischbeck + Addison-Wesley-Longman, 1997 + ISBN: 3-8273-1110-1 + If you don't read instructions ------------------------------ @@ -375,13 +382,13 @@ clean" before giving up or complaining!). --with-thread: On most Unix systems, you can now use multiple threads. To enable this, pass --with-thread. (--with-threads is an alias.) If the library required for threads lives in a - peculiar place, you can use --with-thread=DIRECTORY. In the - Modules/Setup file, enable the thread module. (Threads aren't - enabled automatically because there are run-time penalties - when support for them is compiled in even if you don't use - them.) IMPORTANT: run "make clean" after changing (either - enabling or disabling) this option! Note: for DEC Unix - use --with-dec-threads instead. + peculiar place, you can use --with-thread=DIRECTORY. NOTE: + you must also enable the thread module by uncommenting it in + the Modules/Setup file. (Threads aren't enabled automatically + because there are run-time penalties when support for them is + compiled in even if you don't use them.) IMPORTANT: run "make + clean" after changing (either enabling or disabling) this + option! Note: for DEC Unix use --with-dec-threads instead. --with-sgi-dl: On SGI IRIX 4, dynamic loading of extension modules is supported by the "dl" library by Jack Jansen, which is