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authorGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1996-06-10 19:44:49 (GMT)
committerGuido van Rossum <guido@python.org>1996-06-10 19:44:49 (GMT)
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Note that EOF is ^Z on DOS. Spell Unix as \UNIX in some more places.
Note that .pyc files are platform independent.
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diff --git a/Doc/tut/tut.tex b/Doc/tut/tut.tex
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@@ -205,7 +205,8 @@ When commands are read from a tty, the interpreter is said to be in
with the {\em primary\ prompt}, usually three greater-than signs ({\tt
>>>}); for continuation lines it prompts with the
{\em secondary\ prompt},
-by default three dots ({\tt ...}). Typing an EOF (Control-D)
+by default three dots ({\tt ...}). Typing an EOF character
+(Control-D on {\UNIX}, Control-Z on DOS or Windows)
at the primary prompt causes the interpreter to exit with a zero exit
status.
@@ -275,7 +276,9 @@ Whenever {\tt spam.py} is successfully compiled, an attempt is made to
write the compiled version to {\tt spam.pyc}. It is not an error if
this attempt fails; if for any reason the file is not written
completely, the resulting {\tt spam.pyc} file will be recognized as
-invalid and thus ignored later.
+invalid and thus ignored later. The contents of the {\tt spam.pyc}
+file is platform independent, so a Python module directory can be
+shared by machines of different architectures.
\subsection{Executable Python scripts}
@@ -3205,9 +3208,9 @@ exactly as if \code{cmp(x, y)} were a binary operator like \code{+}
\section{Unix Signal Handling}
-On Unix, Python now supports signal handling. The module
+On {\UNIX}, Python now supports signal handling. The module
\code{signal} exports functions \code{signal}, \code{pause} and
-\code{alarm}, which act similar to their Unix counterparts. The
+\code{alarm}, which act similar to their {\UNIX} counterparts. The
module also exports the conventional names for the various signal
classes (also usable with \code{os.kill()}) and \code{SIG_IGN} and
\code{SIG_DFL}. See the section on \code{signal} in the Library