[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-16 Thread Guido van Rossum
Awesome, Skip! Was there a date somewhere? I can't recall if this would have been the first open source release (from just about 30 years ago, sometime in February 1991) or some time later in the same year? On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 1:57 PM Skip Montanaro wrote: > A note to webmas...@python.org f

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-16 Thread Senthil Kumaran
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 1:58 PM Skip Montanaro wrote: > > I then pushed the result to a Github repo: > > https://github.com/smontanaro/python-0.9.1 > Wow. Was white-space not significant in this release of Python? I see the lack of indentation in the first Python programs. __

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-16 Thread Mats Wichmann
On 2/16/21 3:44 PM, Guido van Rossum wrote: Awesome, Skip! Was there a date somewhere? I can't recall if this would have been the first open source release (from just about 30 years ago, sometime in February 1991) or some time later in the same year? Guido van Rossum unread, Python 0.9.1 part

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-16 Thread Guido van Rossum
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 2:59 PM Senthil Kumaran wrote: > On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 1:58 PM Skip Montanaro > wrote: > >> >> I then pushed the result to a Github repo: >> >> https://github.com/smontanaro/python-0.9.1 >> > > Wow. Was white-space not significant in this release of Python? I see the >

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-16 Thread Skip Montanaro
> > Wow. Was white-space not significant in this release of Python? I see the >> lack of indentation in the first Python programs. >> > > Indentation most certainly was significant from day 0. I suspect what > happened is that these files got busted somehow by the extraction process > used by Skip

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-16 Thread Skip Montanaro
> If someone knows how to get the original Usenet messages from what Google > published, let me know. Seems the original shar is there buried in a Javascript string toward the end of the file. I think I've got a handle on it, though it will take a Python script to massage back into correct format

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-16 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
Hello, On Tue, 16 Feb 2021 18:22:00 -0600 Skip Montanaro wrote: > > If someone knows how to get the original Usenet messages from what > > Google published, let me know. > > Seems the original shar is there buried in a Javascript string toward > the end of the file. I think I've got a handle

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-16 Thread Jonathan Goble
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 5:02 PM Skip Montanaro wrot > A note to webmas...@python.org from an astute user named Hiromi in Japan* > referred us to Guido's shell archives for the 0.9.1 release from 1991. Very interesting discovery! In my efforts to uncover the original plaintext usenet post, I stum

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-16 Thread Skip Montanaro
> Also mind > http://www.dalkescientific.com/writings/diary/archive/2009/03/27/python_0_9_1p1.html > for result comparison. Thanks, Paul. I had lost track of Andrew. Good to know he's still out there. I wonder why his tar file was never sucked up into the historical releases page. Whew! My stupid

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-16 Thread Steven D'Aprano
On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 05:49:49PM -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote: > If someone knows how to get the original Usenet messages from what Google > published, let me know. I don't have those, but I do have a copy of Python 0.9.1 with unmangled scripts. $ ls -lh Python-0.9.1.tar.gz -rwxr-xr-x 1 steve

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-16 Thread Stefan Ring
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 7:33 AM Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 05:49:49PM -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > > If someone knows how to get the original Usenet messages from what Google > > published, let me know. > > I don't have those, but I do have a copy of Python 0.9.1 with u

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-16 Thread Stefan Ring
> When I see diffs like this (your git vs. the unshar result) I tend to > trust unshar more: Sorry, it was not you. I meant the github repo from this e-mail thread. ___ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to pyth

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-16 Thread Stefan Ring
It was not that bad, though: https://github.com/smontanaro/python-0.9.1/compare/main...Ringdingcoder:original ___ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-dev@python.org To unsubscribe send an email to python-dev-le...@python.org https://mail.python.org/mailman3

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-17 Thread Stefan Ring
On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 7:33 AM Steven D'Aprano wrote: > > On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 05:49:49PM -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote: > > > If someone knows how to get the original Usenet messages from what Google > > published, let me know. > > I don't have those, but I do have a copy of Python 0.9.1 with u

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-17 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 17.02.2021 08:00, Stefan Ring wrote: > On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 7:33 AM Steven D'Aprano wrote: >> >> On Tue, Feb 16, 2021 at 05:49:49PM -0600, Skip Montanaro wrote: >> >>> If someone knows how to get the original Usenet messages from what Google >>> published, let me know. >> >> I don't have

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-17 Thread Skip Montanaro
This is getting a bit more off-topic for python-dev than I'd like. I will make a couple comments though, then hopefully be done with this thread. > The original ones are here: > http://ftp.fi.netbsd.org/pub/misc/archive/alt.sources/volume91/Feb/ > Look at http://ftp.fi.netbsd.org/pub/misc/archive/

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-17 Thread Brett Cannon
If we can get a clean copy of the original sources I think we should put them up under the Python org on GitHub for posterity. On Wed, Feb 17, 2021 at 6:10 AM Skip Montanaro wrote: > This is getting a bit more off-topic for python-dev than I'd like. I > will make a couple comments though, then h

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-17 Thread Skip Montanaro
> If we can get a clean copy of the original sources I think we should put them > up under the Python org on GitHub for posterity. Did that earlier today: https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues/1734 Skip ___ Python-Dev mailing list -- python-de

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-18 Thread Paul Sokolovsky
Hello, On Wed, 17 Feb 2021 18:53:46 -0600 Skip Montanaro wrote: > > If we can get a clean copy of the original sources I think we > > should put them up under the Python org on GitHub for posterity. > > Did that earlier today: > > https://github.com/python/pythondotorg/issues/1734 I think t

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-18 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 18.02.2021 01:45, Brett Cannon wrote: > If we can get a clean copy of the original sources I think we should put them > up > under the Python org on GitHub for posterity. There is already a page with Andrew's build on python.org: https://www.python.org/download/releases/early/ but it's not l

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-18 Thread M.-A. Lemburg
On 18.02.2021 09:16, M.-A. Lemburg wrote: > On 18.02.2021 01:45, Brett Cannon wrote: >> If we can get a clean copy of the original sources I think we should put >> them up >> under the Python org on GitHub for posterity. > > There is already a page with Andrew's build on python.org: > > https://

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-18 Thread Larry Hastings
On 2/17/21 4:45 PM, Brett Cannon wrote: If we can get a clean copy of the original sources I think we should put them up under the Python org on GitHub for posterity. Call me crazy, but... shouldn't they be checked in?  I thought we literally had every revision going back to day zero.  It /s

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-18 Thread Stefan Ring
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 10:10 AM Larry Hastings wrote: > Call me crazy, but... shouldn't they be checked in? I thought we literally > had every revision going back to day zero. It should be duck soup to > recreate the original sources--all you need is the correct revision number. It seems to

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-18 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 12:02 AM Paul Sokolovsky wrote: > I think to resolve this issue to the completion, and avoid possibility > of an intermediary to add any unexpected changes/mistakes to the > original sources, instead of "someone making a tarball", someone should > make a script, which repr

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-18 Thread David Mertz
Will someone publish an manylinux build to conda-forge (or their own channel)? On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 9:15 PM Dan Stromberg wrote: > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 12:02 AM Paul Sokolovsky > wrote: > >> I think to resolve this issue to the completion, and avoid possibility >> of an intermediary to

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-18 Thread David Mertz
I've provided this excellent language interpreter as a conda package. For users of conda, you can install it (on Linux) with: conda install -c davidmertz python=0.9 (perhaps put it in a different environment than base). I'm embarrassed by how much effort that took me. I used to teach conda-

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-18 Thread Dan Stromberg
On Thu, Feb 18, 2021 at 9:39 PM David Mertz wrote: > As Skip pointed out to me privately, there are some minor limitations with > this version. E.g.: > > % python > >>> import glob > >>> import sys > >>> print 'hello' > hello > >>> print 2+2 > 4 > >>> print 2*2 > Unhandled exception: run-time er

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-19 Thread David Mertz
In conversation with Dan, I have fixed my conda package (but overwritten the same version). I needed to add this to the build: # sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib CC='gcc -m32' make python I don't have 32-bit headers by default anymore on my distro. With that change, I can run: % conda install

[Python-Dev] Re: Python 0.9.1

2021-02-19 Thread Skip Montanaro
> In conversation with Dan, I have fixed my conda package (but overwritten the same version). I needed to add this to the build: > > # sudo apt-get install gcc-multilib > CC='gcc -m32' make python Thanks. That fixes it for me as well. I never even looked at intobject.c, since it compiled out of t