Python Information
- Copyright: 1991-1995, Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
- Restrictions: Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute
this software and its documentation for any purpose and without fee is
granted provided that the copyright notice appears in all copies.
- Author: Guido van Rossum (remains at large)
- Home page:
http://www.python.org
- PSA: Python Software Activity
- FAQ: www.python.org/doc/FAQ
- Newsgroup: comp.lang.python
- Mailing list: python-list-request@cwi.nl
- Latest version: 1.2 (1.3 Beta)
- Linux binaries: ftp.python.org
- Linux distributions: Red Hat Commercial Linux and Caldera Network
Desktop require Python as part of their base.
Debian includes it.
Linux-FT will include it.
- Further reading: Programming Python by Mark Lutz
O'Reilly and Associates 1995 (est. 1st qtr 1996)
Python Tutorial, Python Reference, Python Library
Reference, and Extending and Embedding the Python
Interpreter by Guido van Rossum
http://www.python.org/doc/
``The What, Why, Who, and Where of Python'' by Aaron R.
Watters. UnixWorld Online:
http://www.wcmh.com/uworld/archives/95/tutorial/005.html.
- Name Origin: BBC show ``Monty Python's Flying Circus''
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