On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 9:39 PM David Mertz wrote:
> As Skip pointed out to me privately, there are some minor limitations with
> this version. E.g.:
>
> % python
> >>> import glob
> >>> import sys
> >>> print 'hello'
> hello
> >>> print 2+2
> 4
> >>> print 2*2
> Unhandled exception: run-time er
> Also mind
> http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2009/03/27/python_0_9_1p1.html
> for result comparison.
Thanks, Paul. I had lost track of Andrew. Good to know he's still out
there. I wonder why his tar file was never sucked up into the
historical releases page.
Whew! My stupid
> If someone knows how to get the original Usenet messages from what Google
> published, let me know.
Seems the original shar is there buried in a Javascript string toward
the end of the file. I think I've got a handle on it, though it will
take a Python script to massage back into correct format
>
> Wow. Was white-space not significant in this release of Python? I see the
>> lack of indentation in the first Python programs.
>>
>
> Indentation most certainly was significant from day 0. I suspect what
> happened is that these files got busted somehow by the extraction process
> used by Skip
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 2:59 PM Senthil Kumaran wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 1:58 PM Skip Montanaro
> wrote:
>
>>
>> I then pushed the result to a Github repo:
>>
>> https://github.com/smontanaro/python-0.9.1
>>
>
> Wow. Was white-space not significant in this release of Python? I see the
>
