Broken link in documentation

[Lyle Johnson]

> One of the instructions in section 3.1 ("A Cookbook Approach")  of
> Guido's "Extending and Embedding the Python Interpreter" says
>
>      "Get David Ascher's compile.py script from
>      http://starship.python.net/crew/da/compile/."
>
> but that link is broken.
> ...
> Is this as much in limbo as it appears to have been last summer?

I think it's fair to say that the functionality of David's "compile.py"
script is now covered by the Distutils package (a.k.a. the "setup.py"
script), which has been a part of the Python standard library since Python
1.6. It is also available as a separate download for Python versions < 1.6.
Please see the information on the Distutils-SIG home page:

    http://www.python.org/sigs/distutils-sig/

for more information.

There is no question that the Python documentation about "Extending and
Embedding the Python Interpreter" needs to be updated. If you're
volunteering I'm sure Fred would love to hear from you ;)

Hope this helps,

Lyle