(LOGO.JPG) Python for OpenVMS

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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.
You always need to download the file 'python1_5_2.zip' from: Note that the '.ZIP' archive contains an OpenVMS BACKUP saveset (20601 blocks). The reason is that this gave a better compression factor - a 'ZIP' of the subdirectory resulted in a 6118 blocks '.ZIP' archive.

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'.

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For your information: the original files were downloaded from: (4948 blocks)


the Python documentation

The Python documentation is decoupled from the interpreter distribution.

Start at:

(This is the most recent documentation for Python V1.5.2 I am aware of)

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.


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08-OCT-1999 ZE.