1.12 -- new address for fu-berlin mirror, infoseek uses python, more

info about windows stdwin, more about gnu getopt, correct typo
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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 @@ gatekeeper.dec.com 16.1.0.2 /pub/plan/python
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 @@ Sunrise Software, who already have a product out using Python -- they
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 @@ about built-in help using strings placed into function objects, and
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 @@ change.
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 @@ implement any of these functions in C, so a standard library module
"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