A note to webmas...@python.org from an astute user named Hiromi in Japan* referred us to Guido's shell archives for the 0.9.1 release from 1991. As that wasn't listed in the historical releases README file:
https://legacy.python.org/download/releases/src/README I pulled the shar files (and a patch), then made a few tweaks to get it to build: % ./python >>> print 'hello world!' hello world! >>> import sys >>> dir(sys) ['argv', 'exit', 'modules', 'path', 'ps1', 'ps2', 'stderr', 'stdin', 'stdout'] >>> sys.modules {'builtin': <module 'builtin'>; 'sys': <module 'sys'>; '__main__': <module '__main__'>} >>> sys.exit(0) I then pushed the result to a Github repo: https://github.com/smontanaro/python-0.9.1 There is a new directory named "shar" with the original files, a small README file and a compile.patch file between the original code and the runnable code. It was a pleasant diversion for a couple hours. I was tired of shovelling snow anyway... Thank you, Hiromi. Skip * Hiromi is bcc'd on this note in case he cares to comment. I didn't want to publish his email beyond the bounds of the webmaster alias without his permission. -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
