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Updated copyright situation; removed most BeOpen and all PythonLabs
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‎README

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This is Python version 2.0
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This is Python version 2.0.1, a bugfix release for Python 2.0
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Copyright (c) 2001 Python Software Foundation.
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All rights reserved.
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Copyright (c) 2000 BeOpen.com.
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All rights reserved.
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Copyright (c) 1995-2000 Corporation for National Research Initiatives.
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Copyright (c) 1995-2001 Corporation for National Research Initiatives.
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Copyright (c) 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum.
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What's new in this release?
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See the file "Misc/NEWS"; see also this URL:
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http://www.pythonlabs.com/products/python2.0/
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See the file "Misc/NEWS".
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If you don't read instructions
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scripting, numeric computing and system testing. Python is often
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compared to Tcl, Perl, Java, JavaScript, Visual Basic or Scheme. To
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find out more about what Python can do for you, point your browser to
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http://www.pythonlabs.com/.
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BeOpen.com offers corporate support, custom development and
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sponsorships for Python. Contact <sales@beopen.com> for more
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information.
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BeOpen Python releases include pre-built Python executables for major
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platforms and are available from PythonLabs.
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http://www.python.org/.
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How do I learn Python?
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New Python releases and related technologies are published at
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http://www.pythonlabs.com/. Come visit us!
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http://www.python.org/. Come visit us!
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The present Python community web site is http://www.python.org/.
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BeOpen.com is developing a next-generation community site for Python
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and is looking for volunteers to help make this an even better
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resource than the existing community site. If you know Python well
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and would like to volunteer to work with us on this project, please
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contact <volunteer@pythonlabs.com> with a summary of your skills.
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There's also a Python community web site at http://starship.python.net/.
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Newsgroups and Mailing Lists
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For help, if you can't find it in the manuals or on the web site, it's
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mailing list, send questions to <help@python.org> (a group of
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volunteers who answer questions as they can). The newsgroup is the
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most efficient way to ask public questions.
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mailing list, send questions to help@python.org (a group of volunteers
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who answer questions as they can). The newsgroup is the most
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efficient way to ask public questions.
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Build instructions
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(Some of these may no longer apply. If you find you can build Python
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on these platforms without the special directions mentioned here, mail
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to <python@pythonlabs.com> so we can remove them!)
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on these platforms without the special directions mentioned here,
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submit a documentation bug report to SourceForge (see Bug Reports
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above) so we can remove them!)
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64-bit platforms: The modules audioop, imageop and rgbimg don't work.
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Don't try to enable them in the Modules/Setup file. They
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All subdirectories created will have Python's version number in their
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"/usr/local/lib/python2.0/" by default. The Python binary is
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installed as "python2.0" and a hard link named "python" is created.
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The only file not installed with a version number in its name is the
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manual page, installed as "/usr/local/man/man1/python.1" by default.
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"/usr/local/lib/python<version>/" by default, where <version> is the
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<major>.<minor> release number (i.e. "2.0", even though this is Python
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2.0.1). The Python binary is installed as "python<version>" and a
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hard link named "python" is created. The only file not installed with
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a version number in its name is the manual page, installed as
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"/usr/local/man/man1/python.1" by default.
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doesn't create the hard link to "python<version>" named "python" and
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it doesn't install the manual page at all.
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coincidence that they now both work on the same team). The latest
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goodies, is online at http://www.python.org/emacs/python-mode. And
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latest version of CC Mode <http://www.python.org/emacs/cc-mode>; it
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libpython2.0.a The library archive
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libpython<version>.a The library archive
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--Guido van Rossum (home page: http://www.pythonlabs.com/~guido/)
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