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@@ -159,12 +159,12 @@ calling python interactively. You need to configure build the GNU readline library before running the configure script. Its sources are not distributed with Python; you can ftp them from any GNU mirror site, or from its home site: -ftp://slc2.ins.cwru.edu/pub/dist/readline-2.0.tar.gz (or a higher -version number -- using version 1.x is not recommended). +<URL:ftp://slc2.ins.cwru.edu/pub/dist/readline-2.0.tar.gz> (or a +higher version number -- using version 1.x is not recommended). A GPL-free version was posted to comp.sources.misc in volume 31 and is -widely available from FTP archive sites. One URL for it is: -ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/.b/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume31/editline/part01.Z +widely available from FTP archive sites, e.g. +<URL:ftp://gatekeeper.dec.com/.b/usenet/comp.sources.misc/volume31/editline/part01.Z> Pass the Python configure script the option --with-readline=DIRECTORY where DIRECTORY is the absolute pathname of the directory where you've @@ -209,8 +209,8 @@ Setup.irix4 file to it). - On SGI IRIX 4, dynamic loading of extension modules is supported by the "dl" library by Jack Jansen, which is ftp'able from -ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/dynload/dl-1.6.tar.Z. This is enabled (after -you've ftp'ed and compiled the dl library!) by passing +<URL:ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/dynload/dl-1.6.tar.Z>. This is enabled +(after you've ftp'ed and compiled the dl library!) by passing --with-sgi-dl=DIRECTORY where DIRECTORY is the absolute pathname of the dl library. (Don't bother on IRIX 5, it already has dynamic linking using SunOS style shared libraries.) Support for this feature @@ -219,9 +219,9 @@ is deprecated. - Dynamic loading of modules is rumoured to be supported on some other systems: VAX (Ultrix), Sun3 (SunOS 3.4), Sequent Symmetry (Dynix), and Atari ST. This is done using a combination of the GNU dynamic loading -package (ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/dynload/dl-dld-1.1.tar.Z) and an +package (<URL:ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/dynload/dl-dld-1.1.tar.Z>) and an emulation of the SGI dl library mentioned above (the emulation can be -found at ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/dynload/dld-3.2.3.tar.Z). To enable +found at <URL:ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/dynload/dld-3.2.3.tar.Z>). To enable this, ftp and compile both libraries, then call the configure passing it the option --with-dl-dld=DL_DIRECTORY,DLD_DIRECTORY where DL_DIRECTORY is the absolute pathname of the dl emulation library and @@ -242,6 +242,44 @@ a separate tar file (currently extensions.tar.Z). See the README file there. +The Tk extension +---------------- + +Tk (the user interface component of John Ousterhout's Tcl language) is +also usable from Python. Since this requires that you first build and +install Tcl/Tk, the Tk interface is not enabled by default. It +requires Tcl 7.3 and Tk 3.6. For more info about Tk, including +pointers to the source, see John Ousterhout's home page at +<URL:http://playground.sun.com/~ouster/>. + +To enable the Python/Tk interface, once you've built and installed +Tcl/Tk, all you need to do is edit two lines in Modules/Setup; search +for the string "Tk". Un-comment one (normally the first) of the lines +beginning with "#tkinter" and un-comment the line beginning with +"#TKPATH". (If you have installed Tcl/Tk in unusual places you will +have to edit the first line as well to fix the -I and -L options.) +See the Build Instructions above for more details. + +There is little documentation. Begin with fetching the "Tk Lifesaver" +document, e.g. <URL:ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/python/tkinter-doc.tar.gz> (a +gzipped tar file containing a PostScript file). There are demos in +the Demo/tkinter directory, in the subdirectories guido, matt and www. + +Note that there's a Python module called "Tkinter" (capital T) which +lives in Lib/tkinter/Tkinter.py, and a C module called "tkinter" +(lower case t) which lives in Modules/tkintermodule.c. Demos and +normal Tk applications only import the Python Tkinter module -- only +the latter uses the C tkinter module directly. In order to find the C +tkinter module, it must be compiled and linked into the Python +interpreter -- the tkinter line in the Setup file does this. In order +to find the Python Tkinter module, sys.path must be set correctly -- +the TKPATH assignment in the Setup file takes care of this, but only +if you install Python properly ("make install libinstall"). (You can +also use dynamic loading for the C tkinter module, in which case you +must manually fix up sys.path or set $PYTHONPATH for the Python +Tkinter module.) + + Building for multiple architectures (using the VPATH feature) ------------------------------------------------------------- @@ -351,11 +389,11 @@ Ftp access ---------- The latest Python source distribution can be ftp'ed from -ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/python/python<version>.tar.gz. You can also find -PostScript of the main Python documentation there, Macintosh and PC -binaries, and the latest STDWIN source distribution (in directory -/pub/stdwin). oFr mirror sites, see the list in the FAQ (Misc/FAQ -this directory). +<URL:ftp://ftp.cwi.nl/pub/python/>. See the INDEX or index.html file +for more information. You can also find PostScript of the main Python +documentation there, Macintosh and PC binaries, and the latest STDWIN +source distribution (in directory /pub/stdwin). oFr mirror sites, see +the list in the FAQ (Misc/FAQ this directory). Mailing list and Newsgroup @@ -386,8 +424,8 @@ Copyright Notice The Python source is copyrighted, but you can freely use and copy it as long as you don't change or remove the copyright: -Copyright 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 by Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, -Amsterdam, The Netherlands. +Copyright 1991-1995 by Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, +The Netherlands. All Rights Reserved |