Minor edits for 1.5a2
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-This is Python release 1.5 alpha 1
+This is Python release 1.5 alpha 2
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@@ -24,7 +24,7 @@
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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 @@
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-hard pressed to find places where the books are out of date.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+be hard pressed to find places where the books are out of date.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 @@
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
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--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