old python

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, 22 Jun 2014 13:18:09 -0700, arbautjc wrote:

> If anybody is interested...
> 
> I think it's the same as the version unearthed recently [1], but here is
> a rather old version of Python on ftp:
> 
> ftp://ftp.uni-duisburg.de/local/systems/unix/old_stuff/
> 
> 
> [1] http://legacy.python.org/download/releases/early/

It claims to be the same version, 0.9.1.

Among other differences, Python 0.9 doesn't accept "" as string 
delimiters!

steve at runes:~/personal/python/python-0.9.1$ ./python0.9.1
>>> x = "hello"
Parsing error: file <stdin>, line 1:
x = "hello"
     ^
Unhandled exception: run-time error: syntax error
>>> x = 'hello'
>>> 

The exception system was primitive:

>>> 1/0
Unhandled exception: run-time error: integer division by zero
Stack backtrace (innermost last):
  File "<stdin>", line 1
>>>


There's no lambda built-in, but there is a version in the standard 
library!

def lambda(args, expr):
       if '\n' in args or '\n' in expr:
               raise RuntimeError, 'lambda: no cheating!'
       stmt = 'def func(' + args + '): return ' + expr + '\n'
       print 'lambda:', stmt,
       exec(stmt)
       return func


-- 
Steven