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@@ -6,7 +6,7 @@ Reply-to: guido@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum) 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 |