This is Python release 1.5.1

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This version is officially released on Tuesday, April 14, 1998. It is

mostly a bugfix release on Python 1.5.

See the Misc/NEWS file. Nothing spectacular this time, only small

changes (as you would expect from a release called "1.5.1").

One big organizational change: the documentation sources have been

unbundled. We will release a version of the Doc subtree separately,

but probably not simultaneously with the source release.

array, audioop, binascii, cPickle, cStringIO, cmath, crypt, curses,

errno, fcntl, gdbm, grp, imageop, _locale, math, md5, new, operator,

parser, pcre, posix, pwd, readline, regex, reop, rgbimg, rotor,

select, signal, socket, soundex, strop, struct, syslog, termios,

time, timing, zlib

The socket test might fail in the test harness; going through it by

hand shows that they work.

A good exercise for the reader: make this work "out of the box".

Using GNU readline 2.2 seems to behave strangely, but I think that's

a problem with my readline 2.2 port. :-\

If you get SIGSEGVs while running Python (I haven't yet, but I've

only run small programs and the test cases), you're probably running

out of stack; the default 32k could be a little tight. To increase

the stack size, edit the Makefile in the Modules directory to read:

LDFLAGS = -N 48k

BeOS R3 or later. Note that only the PowerPC platform is supported

at this time, but feel free to try building it on x86.

1) Don't use gcc. It compiles Python/graminit.c into something that

the Cray assembler doesn't like. Cray's cc seems to work fine.

2) Uncomment modules md5 (won't compile) and audioop (will crash

the interpreter during the test suite).

If you run the test suite, two tests will fail (rotate and binascii),

but these are not the modules you'd expect to need on a Cray.