= python =

== Description ==

Python is a dynamic object-oriented programming language that can be used for many kinds of software development. It offers strong support for integration with other languages and tools, comes with extensive standard libraries, and can be learned in a few days. Many Python programmers report substantial productivity gains and feel the language encourages the development of higher quality, more maintainable code.

For more details see http://www.python.org

== License ==

Python is licensed under the PSF LICENSE. The Python license imposes very few restrictions on what you can do with Python. Most of the source code is copyrighted by the Python Software Foundation (PSF). A few files have a different copyright owner, but the same license applies to all of them. Python's licesning is GPL compatible.

For more details see http://www.python.org/psf/license/

== SPKG Maintainers ==
 * Michael Abshoff
 * William Stein
 * Mike Hansen

== Upstream Contact ==

There are a large number of cimmunity resources. For more details see http://www.python.org/community/

== Dependencies ==
 * None

== Special Update/Build Instructions ==

 * Remove src/Lib/distutils/command/wininst-6.exe and src/Lib/distutils/command/wininst-7.1.exe. Once we support Windows we will likely need to add them back in.
 * We used to block parallel MAKE, but extensive testing [make -j64] showed that there is no longer any problem. The problem was the a parallel make install causes trouble
 * Patch ctypes__init__.patch: Disable pre-Python 2.5 problem workaround on OSX.
 * Patch locale.py: Work around import failures for locals
 * Patch pkgutil.patch: Make Python's help command work in Sage, work around failures for locals.
 * Patch readline-Itanium-fix.patch: Fix Itanium specific readline extension problem.
 * Patch sdist.py: Make sure that sdist copies over the .hg directory.

== Changelog ==

=== python-2.6.2.p0 (Robert Miller June 25th, 2009) ===
 * Fixed issue with "import _ssl"
 * Help from Martin Albrecht and William Stein

=== python-2.6.2 (Mike Hansen June 19th, 2009) ===
 * Updated to Python 2.6.2.
 * Removed the patches to posixmodule.c and pymactoolbox.h since they
    had been fixed upstream.

=== python-2.5.4.p0 (Mike Hansen, May 28th, 2009) ===
 * Fixed issue with distutils's sdist command not copying over our .hg repository.  This change that caused this was http://bugs.python.org/issue1725737.
 * Included a fix by Michael Abshoff: patch posixmodule.c to avoid an incorrectly detected out of memory error - see http://bugs.python.org/issue1608818

=== python-2.5.4 (Michael Abshoff, February 15th, 2008) ===
 * rebase to latest upstream 2.5.4 release

=== python-2.5.2.p8 (Michael Abshoff, September 24th, 2008) ===
 * disable parallel make install 

=== python-2.5.2.p7 (Robert Miller, International Talk Like a Pirate Day, 2008) ===
 * 'oist th' fwrapv option on itanium, ya landlubber what deserves the black spot!

=== python-2.5.2.p6 (Michael Abshoff, September 14th, 2008) ===
 * disable pymalloc if SAGE_VALGRIND is set to "yes"
 * since we now support parallel building of python sleep three seconds before testing for a working python

=== python-2.5.2.p5 (Michael Abshoff, August 30th, 2008) ===
 * also disabled OSX extensions on 32 bit Darwin
 
=== python-2.5.2.p4 (Michael Abshoff, August 25th, 2008) ===
 * Set LDFLAGS and CPPFLAGS to pick up Sage's readline (#3947)  

=== python-2.5.2.p3 (Michael Abshoff, July 9th, 2008) ===
 * remove -fwrapv from the build flags for Itanium

=== python-2.5.2.p2 (Michael Abshoff, May 28th, 2008) ===
 * reenable parallel make again (Gary Furnish, #3322)

=== python-2.5.2.p1 (Michael Abshoff, May 28th, 2008) ===
 * Improve OSX 64 bit support even more (#3318)

=== python-2.5.2.p0 (Michael Abshoff, May 18th, 2008) ===
 * Improve OSX 64 but build support

=== python-2.5.2 (Michael Abshoff, March 26th, 2008) ===
 * upgrade to the 2.5.2 release
 * clean up SPKG.txt
 * add 64 bit OSX 10.5 build support
 * make sure SAGE_LOCAL is set (#633)

=== python-2.5.1.p14 (Michael Abshoff, March. 28th, 2008) ===
  * Fix OSX 10.5 detection code to handle 10.5.2 and higher (#2672)

=== python-2.5.1.p13 (Michael Abshoff, Jan. 22st, 2008) ===
 * remove executables from tarball

=== python-2.5.1.p12 (Michael Abshoff, Jan. 21st, 2008) ===
 * update patches/local.py (fixes #1604, fixed by William Stein)

=== python-2.5.1.p11 (Michael Abshoff) ===
 * enable ucs4 per default
 * add .hgignore

=== python-2.5.1.p10 ===
 * Details of this and prior releases are lost to history.