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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1997-02-10 16:51:52 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1997-02-10 16:51:52 (GMT)
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Correct typo in PyArg_ParseTuple example.
Add reference to DLD 3.3 at http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/DLD.html.
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@@ -704,7 +704,7 @@ Some example calls:
ok = PyArg_ParseTuple(args, "(ii)s#", &i, &j, &s, &size);
/* A pair of ints and a string, whose size is also returned */
- /* Possible Python call: f(1, 2, 'three') */
+ /* Possible Python call: f((1, 2), 'three') */
{
char *file;
@@ -1251,10 +1251,14 @@ following hardware and software combinations: VAX (Ultrix), Sun 3
Atari ST. There is no reason to use it on a Sparc; I haven't seen a
Sun 3 for years so I don't know if these have shared libraries or not.
-You need to fetch and build two packages. One is GNU DLD 3.2.3,
-available by anonymous ftp from host \file{ftp.cwi.nl}, directory
-\file{pub/dynload}, file \file{dld-3.2.3.tar.Z}. (As far as I know,
-no further development on GNU DLD is being done.) The other is an
+You need to fetch and build two packages.
+One is GNU DLD. All development of this code has been done with DLD
+version 3.2.3, which is available by anonymous ftp from host
+\file{ftp.cwi.nl}, directory \file{pub/dynload}, file
+\file{dld-3.2.3.tar.Z}. (A more recent version of DLD is available
+via \file{http://www-swiss.ai.mit.edu/~jaffer/DLD.html} but this has
+not been tested.)
+The other package needed is an
emulation of Jack Jansen's \code{dl} package that I wrote on top of
GNU DLD 3.2.3. This is available from the same host and directory,
file dl-dld-1.1.tar.Z. (The version number may change --- but I doubt