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This is Python release 1.4 (final)
This is Python release 1.5 alpha 1
==================================
I appreciate everybody's patience... This is the official, final
release of Python 1.4. You can throw away your copies of 1.3 and the
1.4 betas now!
******************************************
*** RELEASE RESTRICTED TO PSA MEMBERS! ***
******************************************
What's new in this release?
---------------------------
An exhaustive list of (nearly) everything that changed since the
release of Python 1.3, over a year ago, can be found in the file
Misc/NEWS. (A history of all changes before that time is kept in
Misc/HISTORY.) An overview of the most important user-visible changes
is appended as a new chapter to the Tutorial (Doc/tut.tex). Perhaps
the most visible changes are the new power operator, complex numbers,
new slicing and indexing syntax, and class-private names of the form
__spam (an experimental feature).
Ehm, I'll be more complete later. Som highlights: I've completed the
Grand Renaming. It's much faster (almost twice for pystone.py -- see
Tools/scripts.) There's an assert statement, and a -O option that
squeezes SET_LINENO instructions and if __debug__ code. It's much
smarter (only on Unix, so far) about the initial value for sys.path.
See the usage message (python -h). There's an explicit structure that
maintains all per-thread globals.
Unfinished projects: documentation; multiple independent interpreters;
better embedding support; more Windows support.
What is Python anyway?
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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 1.4beta2, the language is so stable now that you'd be
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hard pressed to find places where the books are out of date.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:
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directory given by --exec-prefix or the 'exec_prefix' Make variable
(defaults to the --prefix directory). All subdirectories created will
have Python's version number in their name, e.g. the library modules
are installed in "/usr/local/lib/python1.4/" by default. The Python
binary is installed as "python1.4" and a hard link named "python" is
are installed in "/usr/local/lib/python1.5/" by default. The Python
binary is installed as "python1.5" and a hard link named "python" is
created. The only file not installed with a version number in its
name is the manual page, installed as "/usr/local/man/man1/python.1"
by default.
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If you have a previous installation of a pre-1.4 Python that you don't
want to replace yet, use "make altinstall". This installs the same
set of files as "make install" except it doesn't create the hard link
to "python1.4" named "python" and it doesn't install the manual page
to "python1.5" named "python" and it doesn't install the manual page
at all.
The only thing you may have to install manually is the Python mode for
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well work.
See http://www.sunlabs.com/research/tcl/ for more info on where to get
Tcl/Tk.
Tcl/Tk. Also http://sunscript.sun.com/.
To enable the Python/Tk interface, once you've built and installed
Tcl/Tk, all you need to do is edit two lines in Modules/Setup; search