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A new version of the ZIP file has been created on 13-MAY-1999, because the
"-V" option was ommitted inadvertently during creation of the first one on
01-MAY-1999. If you have downloaded the old version you should be able to
fix the saveset after it was extracted from the ".ZIP" archive.
See 'restore the Python distribution'
in the 'installing and building' section.
The BACKUP saveset contains the complete source of the core interpreter and
the Python library. Unpacking this file on OpenVMS creates about 1516 files
with 19221 blocks. On a disk with cluster size 4 this allocates 21908 blocks.
Even if you download precompiled object code
(described later) for OpenVMS, you still need the library files from
'python1_5_2.zip'.
Start at:
Note that the
'Python for OpenVMS documentation' only
describes OpenVMS specifics. You should download the Python documentation, too.
A new version of the documentation was made available shortly before the release
of Python for OpenVMS V1.5.2-V004. This is usually announced in the newsgroups
comp.lang.python and
comp.lang.python.announce.
You might check the addresses mentioned above from time to time if you can't
follow the newsgroups.
the Python core files
Beginning with 'Python for OpenVMS' version 1.5.2-V001 the Python
distribution is available in a repacked format which should make the
installation process easier.
the Python documentation
The Python documentation is decoupled from the interpreter distribution.