python

Description

Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days. Many Python programmers report substantial productivity gains and feel the language encourages the development of higher quality, more maintainable code.

For more details see http://www.python.org

License

Python is licensed under the PSF LICENSE. The Python license imposes very few restrictions on what you can do with Python. Most of the source code is copyrighted by the Python Software Foundation (PSF). A few files have a different copyright owner, but the same license applies to all of them. Python's licesning is GPL compatible.

For more details see http://www.python.org/psf/license/

SPKG Maintainers

• Michael Abshoff
• William Stein

Upstream Contact

There are a large number of cimmunity resources. For more details see http://www.python.org/community/

Dependencies

• None

Special Update/Build Instructions

• Remove src/Lib/distutils/command/wininst-6.exe and src/Lib/distutils/command/wininst-7.1.exe. Once we support Windows we will likely need to add them back in.

Changelog

python-2.5.1.p13 (Michael Abshoff, Jan. 22st, 2008)

• remove executables from tarball

python-2.5.1.p12 (Michael Abshoff, Jan. 21st, 2008)

• update patches/local.py (fixes #1604, fixed by William Stein)

python-2.5.1.p11 (Michael Abshoff)

• enable ucs4 per default
• add .hgignore

python-2.5.1.p10

• Details of this and prior releases are lost to history.