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authorFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-04-03 20:13:55 (GMT)
committerFred Drake <fdrake@acm.org>2000-04-03 20:13:55 (GMT)
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Merged changes from the 1.5.2p2 release.
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@@ -23,6 +23,9 @@ reference material.
\item[\module{Tkdnd}]
--- Drag-and-drop support for \module{Tkinter}.
+\item[\module{turtle}]
+--- Turtle graphics in a Tk window.
+
\item[\module{test}]
--- Regression testing framework. This is used for the Python
regression test, but is useful for other Python libraries as well.
@@ -35,6 +38,11 @@ This is a package rather than a module.
Some of these are very old and/or not very robust; marked with ``hmm.''
\begin{description}
+\item[\module{dircmp}]
+--- Class to build directory diff tools on (may become a demo or tool).
+\deprecated{1.6}{The \refmodule{filecmp} module will replace
+\module{dircmp}.}
+
\item[\module{bdb}]
--- A generic Python debugger base class (used by pdb)
@@ -72,7 +80,7 @@ document these.
--- Platform-independent API for playing audio data
\item[\module{sunaudio}]
---- interpret sun audio headers (may become obsolete or a tool/demo)
+--- Interpret Sun audio headers (may become obsolete or a tool/demo)
\item[\module{toaiff}]
--- Convert "arbitrary" sound files to AIFF files; should probably
@@ -80,14 +88,23 @@ become a tool or demo. Requires the external program \program{sox}.
\end{description}
-\section{Obsolete}
+\section{Obsolete \label{obsolete-modules}}
+
+These modules are not normally available for import; additional work
+must be done to make them available.
+
+Those which are written in Python will be installed into the directory
+\file{lib-old/} installed as part of the standard library. To use
+these, the directory must be added to \code{sys.path}, possibly using
+\envvar{PYTHONPATH}.
+
+Obsolete extension modules written in C are not built by default.
+Under \UNIX, these must be enabled by uncommenting the appropriate
+lines in \file{Modules/Setup} in the build tree and either rebuilding
+Python if the modules are statically linked, or building and
+installing the shared object if using dynamically-loaded extensions.
-These modules are not on the standard module search path;
-\indexiii{module}{search}{path}
-but are available in the directory \file{lib-old/} installed under
-\file{\textrm{\$prefix}/lib/python1.5/}. % $ <-- bow to font lock
-To use any of these modules, add that directory to \code{sys.path},
-possibly using \envvar{PYTHONPATH}.
+% XXX need Windows instructions!
\begin{description}
\item[\module{addpack}]