1.12 -- new address for fu-berlin mirror, infoseek uses python, more
info about windows stdwin, more about gnu getopt, correct typo
diff --git a/Misc/FAQ b/Misc/FAQ
index c64969f..e884fa9 100644
--- a/Misc/FAQ
+++ b/Misc/FAQ
@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@
Approved: news-answers-request@MIT.Edu
Archive-name: python-faq/part1
-Version: 1.11
+Version: 1.12
Last-modified: 25 July 1994
This article contains answers to Frequently Asked Questions about
@@ -226,7 +226,7 @@
ftp.uu.net 192.48.96.9 /languages/python
ftp.wustl.edu 128.252.135.4 /graphics/graphics/sgi-stuff/python
ftp.funet.fi 128.214.6.100 /pub/languages/python
-ftp.fu-berlin.de 130.133.4.50 /pub/unix/languages/python (*python* only)
+ftp.fu-berlin.de 130.133.1.18 /unix/languages/python (*python* only)
ftp.sunet.se 130.238.127.3 /pub/lang/python
unix.hensa.ac.uk 129.12.43.16 /uunet/languages/python
@@ -334,6 +334,9 @@
use Python for a GUI management application and an SNMP network
manangement application. Contact: <info@sunrise.com>.
+Infoseek is using python to implement their commercial WWW information
+retrieval service. Contact: <info@infoseek.com>.
+
Individuals at many other companies are using Python for
internal development (witness their contributions to the Python
mailing list or newsgroup).
@@ -363,9 +366,10 @@
possibly a switch statement.
There will be better ports to the Mac, DOS, Windows, Windows NT, and
-OS/2. The Windows ports will support dynalically loaded modules using
-DLLs. The Mac port may also support dynamic loading of modules.
-There may be a Windows version of STDWIN.
+OS/2. The Windows ports will support dynamically loaded modules using
+DLLs. There may be a Windows version of STDWIN (someone has actually
+written one and contributed it but it's not robust enough at the
+moment).
Also planned is improved support for embedding Python in other
applications, e.g. by renaming most global symbols to have a "Py"
@@ -415,8 +419,16 @@
script (after the script name).
A. You are probably linking with GNU getopt, e.g. through -liberty.
-Don't. (If you are using this because you link with -lreadline, use
-the readline distributed with Python instead.)
+Don't. The reason for the complaint is that GNU getopt, unlike System
+V getopt and other getopt implementations, doesn't consider a
+non-option to be the end of the option list. A quick (and compatible)
+fix for scripts is to add "--" to the interpreter, like this:
+
+ #! /usr/local/bin/python --
+
+You can also use this interactively:
+
+ python -- script.py [options]
3.6. Q. When building on the SGI, make tries to run python to create
glmodule.c, but python hasn't been built or installed yet.
@@ -808,7 +820,7 @@
"string" written in Python was created that performs string related
operations. Since then, the cry for performance has moved most of
them into the built-in module strop (this is imported by module
-string, which is still the perferred interface, without loss of
+string, which is still the preferred interface, without loss of
performance except during initialization). Some of these functions
(e.g. index()) could easily be implemented as string methods instead,
but others (e.g. sort()) can't, since their interface prescribes that