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...Software Foundation today announced the final release of Python 2.1, a new version of the popular object-oriented programming language. Python 2.1 is the first release under the auspices of the Python Software Foundation (PSF). <p>"After months of work and many pre-releases, closely coordinated with the Python developer community, Python 2.1 is ready for the world," said Guido van Rossum, Python's creator and director of PythonLabs at Digital Creations. <p>Python 2.1 contai...
...software/tar/tar.html">GNU tar</a> should allow for untarring on Solaris and HP/UX. </ul> <a name="test"><h4>Test suite bugs</h4></a> <p>Some tests may unexpectedly fail on certain platforms. Here are failures that we know (something) about and intend to fix in a following patch release. These bugs may simply be in the test suite, but they may indicate bugs in Python. <ul> <li>The test for the ossaudiodev module hangs o...
...software/tar/tar.html">GNU tar</a> should allow for untarring on Solaris and HP/UX. <li>A bug in the /usr/include/ncurses.h header file on FreeBSD and MacOS X 10.2 means that the cursesmodule will fail to build. Edit the configure.in file and remove the line <pre> AC_DEFINE(_XOPEN_SOURCE_EXTENDED, 1, Define to activate Unix95-and-earlier features) </pre> and then run 'autoconf' to rebuild the configure file. This bug is fixed in OS X 10.3, and will hopefully be f...
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