Clean up a bit. Drop -X option, update date, remove documentation

URLs, add various useful URLs.  Update address and email.  Drop PSA
and copyright.  Add license info.
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.TH PYTHON "1" "20 August, 1999"
.TH PYTHON "1" "5 September, 2000"
.SH NAME
python \- an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming language
.SH SYNOPSIS
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[
.B \-v
]
.br
[
.B \-x
]
[
.B \-X
.B \-x
]
.br
[
@ -52,8 +48,8 @@ The Python Library Reference documents built-in and standard types,
constants, functions and modules.
Finally, the Python Reference Manual describes the syntax and
semantics of the core language in (perhaps too) much detail.
(Information on locating these documents is included in
.B "SEE ALSO"
(These documents may be located via the
.B "INTERNET RESOURCES"
below; they may be installed on your system as well.)
.PP
Python's basic power can be extended with your own modules written in
@ -108,11 +104,6 @@ Skip the first line of the source. This is intended for a DOS
specific hack only. Warning: the line numbers in error messages will
be off by one!
.TP
.B \-X
Make the standard exceptions strings instead of classes.
Use for backward compatibility with old code only. This is not
necessary for most uses of string exceptions.
.TP
.BI "\-c " command
Specify the command to execute (see next section).
This terminates the option list (following options are passed as
@ -144,8 +135,8 @@ which is a list of strings (you must first
.I import sys
to be able to access it).
If no script name is given,
.I sys.argv
is empty; if
.I sys.argv[0]
is an empty string; if
.B \-c
is used,
.I sys.argv[0]
@ -244,56 +235,36 @@ the \fB\-u\fP option.
.IP PYTHONVERBOSE
If this is set to a non-empty string it is equivalent to specifying
the \fB\-v\fP option.
.SH SEE ALSO
.IP "Python Tutorial"
URL: http://www.python.org/doc/tut/tut.html
.IP "Python Library Reference"
URL: http://www.python.org/doc/lib/lib.html
.IP "Python Reference Manual"
URL: http://www.python.org/doc/ref/ref.html
.IP "Extending and Embedding the Python Interpreter"
URL: http://www.python.org/doc/ext/ext.html
.IP "Python/C API"
URL: http://www.python.org/doc/api/api.html
.PP
Downloadable versions of these documents in many formats are available
at the Python website; see \fB\INTERNET RESOURCES\fP below.
.SH AUTHOR
.nf
Guido van Rossum
CNRI
1895 Preston White Drive
Reston, VA 20191
BeOpen.com
160 Saratoga Avenue
Santa Clara, CA 95051
USA
.PP
E-mail: guido@cnri.reston.va.us, guido@python.org
E-mail: guido@beopen.com, guido@python.org
.fi
.PP
And a cast of thousands.
.SH INTERNET RESOURCES
Web site: http://www.python.org
Main website: http://www.python.org
.br
FTP site: ftp://ftp.python.org
BeOpen development team: http://pythonlabs.com
.br
Community website: http://starship.python.net
.br
Developer resources:
.br
http://sourceforge.net/project/?group_id=5470
.br
FTP: ftp://ftp.python.org/pub/python
.br
Module repository: http://www.vex.net/parnassus/
.br
Newsgroups: comp.lang.python, comp.lang.python.announce
.PP
There are many mirror sites; a current list is available at
http://www.python.org/mirrors.html.
.PP
The \fI\Python Software Activity\fP provides many mailing lists which
serve various special interests within the Python community;
information on these special interest groups is available at
http://www.python.org/sigs/.
.SH COPYRIGHT
Copyright 1991-1995 by Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam,
The Netherlands.
.IP " "
All Rights Reserved
.PP
Copyright (c) 2000, BeOpen.com.
Copyright (c) 1995-2000, Corporation for National Research Initiatives.
Copyright (c) 1990-1995, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum.
All rights reserved.
See the file "Misc/COPYRIGHT" for information on usage and
redistribution of this file, and for a DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.
.SH LICENSING
Python is distributed under an Open Source license. See the file
"LICENSE" in the Python source distribution for information on terms &
conditions for accessing and otherwise using Python and for a
DISCLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.