From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu Subject: Re: [9fans] python In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 03 Nov 2003 16:11:20." <8aacda0795a5fd3188bcc4c7dc57e75d@juice.thebigchoice.com> From: "Russ Cox" MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-ID: <64743.1067872859.1@t40.swtch.com> Message-Id: Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2003 10:20:59 -0500 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 7dd0f2ee-eacc-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 > Is there an active maintainer of python? no. > The Contrib one (2.2) is a year old now : Nov 13 2002 > > I remember reading that the plan9 version was built from the CVS of the time. > > I imagine it would be quicker for whoever did it last time to repeat the process. probably, but i have very little time, and it's not that important to me right now. > I wouldn't be too concerned but 2.2 doesn't have native generators so you have to add > > from __future__ import generators > > it also lacks the sum(), min(), and max() reduction functions > > for the full list see : > > http://www.python.org/2.3/highlights.html > > quite a few of the changes are to enable Unicode support. there was already unicode support, i thought. it certainly seemed that way. i think i was good about keeping all the relevant new files in the Plan9/ directory, so you should be able to start with a fresh tree, drop in the Plan9 directory, cd into it, run mk, and see what happens. i'll happily give you the scripts that generate the cd image too.