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Fred Drake 4e262a9631 A small change to the C API for weakly-referencable types: Such types 
must now initialize the extra field used by the weak-ref machinery to
NULL themselves, to avoid having to require PyObject_INIT() to check
if the type supports weak references and do it there.  This causes less
work to be done for all objects (the type object does not need to be
consulted to check for the Py_TPFLAGS_HAVE_WEAKREFS bit).
 		2001-03-22 18:26:47 +00:00
..
RPM distutils setup files for Tkinter 2000-10-16 15:36:25 +00:00
ACKS Added Gordon McMillan. He should've been in there ages ago. Thanks 2001-03-22 13:43:25 +00:00
AIX-NOTES Rename Setup.in to Setup.dist, and assume that configure will create 2000-10-26 17:07:40 +00:00
BLURB Drop Capitalized Important Words. 1997-11-25 15:40:06 +00:00
BLURB.LUTZ Initial revision 1994-01-26 10:20:16 +00:00
BLURB.WINDOWS A nice blurb that Mark Hammond wrote, aimed at Windows users. 1997-11-05 17:15:02 +00:00
BeOS-NOTES Remove outdated information. Merge now dead BeOS/README-readline. I'm not 2001-02-16 04:35:20 +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 Added note about libpython1.5.a. 1997-07-19 20:44:33 +00:00
HYPE Initial revision 1994-04-14 13:02:35 +00:00
Makefile.pre.in Get rid of weird @SET_CXX@ macro occurrence. 2001-01-23 01:53:41 +00:00
NEWS A small change to the C API for weakly-referencable types: Such types 2001-03-22 18:26:47 +00:00
NEXT-NOTES PS: use -O2, not -O3 1996-09-06 23:31:18 +00:00
PURIFY.README Updated for Python 1.5, including my experiences with Purify on 1997-10-07 15:50:58 +00:00
Porting mini-faq on porting python 1998-08-10 16:36:48 +00:00
README Updated to include all files here. 2000-09-01 23:22:12 +00:00
RFD Initial revision 1994-01-26 10:20:16 +00:00
cheatsheet Very useful file! 1994-08-05 15:57:31 +00:00
comparisons A comparison with several other languages that also appears in the 1997-11-20 21:15:28 +00:00
editline-fix Added editline fix 1996-09-12 17:29:33 +00:00
faq2html.py /usr/local/bin/python -> /usr/bin/env python 1996-11-27 19:52:01 +00:00
find_recursionlimit.py script that reports a fairly safe recursionlimit for a specific platform 2000-08-31 19:24:17 +00:00
fixfuncptrs.sh Initial revision 1994-01-26 10:20:16 +00:00
gdbinit PyObject_Dump() -> _PyObject_Dump() 2001-01-24 04:18:13 +00:00
indent.pro Some new files... 1994-09-14 14:06:46 +00:00
python-mode.el (py-parse-state): Teach python-mode how to scan code which follows 2001-02-24 00:09:17 +00:00
python.man Document the -W option as best as I can. 2000-12-19 03:21:54 +00:00
renumber.py /usr/local/bin/python -> /usr/bin/env python 1996-11-27 19:52:01 +00:00
setuid-prog.c correct bogus instructions 'ccoment out' -> 'uncomment' 1998-09-10 20:18:09 +00:00
unicode.txt Updated according to the changes made to the "s#" parser marker 2000-09-21 21:21:59 +00:00
vgrindefs New version from Neale... He promised it's the last. 1997-11-11 16:36:14 +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
----------------

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)