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Authored by: Steve Martin on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 08:59 AM EST |
The following may not be of much help, given the time
window and the
specific need of the Python Foundation, but
here's what little I have
here.
I have a dead-tree copy here of "Core Python
Programming",
copyright date 2001 Prentice Hall PTR /
Prentice Hall Inc. in New Jersey. On
the copyrright page, it
lists other branches of Prentice-Hall, including
Prentice-Hall
International (UK) Limited in London. Perhaps someone can
confirm that this book was also published in London?
Also, here is an interview
(coincidentally, done
by the author of the above-cited book) with Guido Van
Rossem (the creator of Python) showing that the name was
in use for this
software package at least in 2002.
The earliest reference I can dig up at
the moment
(have to dash off to real life) is
he
re
-- this is an LSM entry for Python
1.5, dated January 1, 1998. This
doesn't necessarily indicate
anything about distribution in the UK,
though. --- "When I say something, I put my name next to it." -- Isaac
Jaffe, "Sports Night" [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 09:12 AM EST |
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 09:15 AM EST |
This google search locates pages mentioning the Python Software Foundation from
1995 through 1999.
https://www.google.com/search?q=Python+Software+Foundation&hl=en&sa=X&am
p;ei=mUIeUbWQJZSi8QTzrIH4Ag&ved=0CCEQpwUoBg&source=lnt&tbs=cdr%3A1%2
Ccd_min%3A1%2F1%2F1995%2Ccd_max%3A1%2F1%2F1999&tbm=[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 09:18 AM EST |
Could we cite European Linux distros that used Python in them?
OpenSUSE/SLES/SLED and their predecessors would be a good start, followed by
Mandrake/Mandriva and Knoppix.
Any more for the list?
We could also cite
non-European distributions that are widely used, such as Redhat.[ Reply to This | # ]
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- The Python Foundation Asks For Help Re PYTHON Trademark in EU ~pj - Authored by: PJ on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 09:42 AM EST
- The Python Foundation Asks For Help Re PYTHON Trademark in EU ~pj - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 04:47 PM EST
- Red Hat Linux - Authored by: Chromatix on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 08:28 PM EST
- Red Hat Linux - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 16 2013 @ 06:57 PM EST
- Caldera Open Linux 2.3, August 16, 1999 - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 08:45 PM EST
- Redhat 5.2 - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 16 2013 @ 01:59 AM EST
- RedHat Linux 4.2 - Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 18 2013 @ 10:37 AM EST
- The Python Foundation Asks For Help Re PYTHON Trademark in EU ~pj - Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 19 2013 @ 04:49 PM EST
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Authored by: PJ on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 09:46 AM EST |
H
ere's a question from a user in the UK to the Python mailing list, using
Python as found in Caldera 1.3, the year is 1999. [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 09:54 AM EST |
Lets hope this request for information has a better outcome.
I still wonder what it was that OSRM found that was so disastrous for Linux that
Grokline had to be taken down? [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: PJ on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 09:56 AM EST |
H
ere's a message to the Python list from 1999 from Christian Gafton at Red
Hat, about LORAX, Red Hat Linux Beta Release:
Red Hat, Inc. is
looking for a few brave hackers to try, test, break,
and experiment on our
latest beta release. Featuring Anaconda, a brand
new installation procedure
written in Python and featuring both text
and GTK+-based interfaces for your
installation pleasure. [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: hardmath on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 10:01 AM EST |
The Python name was stolen fair and square from that of
Flying Circus fame, which is one UK
connection however tenuous.
I
wonder if there does not exist "fan" correspondence in
Guido's files with
troupe members confirming his intended
homage?
Certainly any Python
trademark applied to software now would
be "source" for confusion, unless
approved by the fine folks
at python.org.
--- Recursion is the
opprobrium of the mathists. [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: vodad on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 10:05 AM EST |
http://groups.google.com/group/comp.lang.python/index/browse_frm/month/1998-09?_
done=%2Fgroup%2Fcomp.lang.python%2Fbrowse_frm%2Fmonth%2F1998-09%3F&
Several of these are from members in Europe.
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Authored by: jmc on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 10:27 AM EST |
Eons ago when I first started off running my own business, in 1987 or so there
was a series of computers in the UK based on National Semiconductor chips called
the Python series.
Alas the company went belly-up (owing me a fair bit for programming work). Maybe
because every computer they sold got given a hostname of "Monty".
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Authored by: PJ on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 10:33 AM EST |
Here's a message from 1999 announcing DISLIN 7.2:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-September/015041.html
[ANN] Data Plotting Library DISLIN 7.2
Helmut Michels michels at linax1.mpae.gwdg.de
Tue Sep 7 14:35:08 CEST 1999
Previous message: [Newbie] Win95 Python 1.5.2 with Tk, <Mousewheel>
not recognised
Next message: Suitability for games?
Messages sorted by: [ date ] [ thread ] [ subject ] [ author ]
DISLIN is a high-level and easy to use plotting library for
displaying data as curves, bar graphs, pie charts, 3D-colour plots,
surfaces, contours and maps. Several output formats are supported
such as X11, VGA, PostScript, CGM, HPGL, TIFF, PNG and Prescribe.
The library contains about 400 plotting and parameter setting routines
and is available for several C, Fortran 77 and Fortran 90 compilers.
Some DISLIN distributions contain also plotting extensions for the
languages Perl, Python and Java.
Version 7.2 of DISLIN is now released with the following new features
- PNG support as output format
- Calendar axes
- 3-D bar graphs / 3-D pie charts
- Cursor routines
- Quickplots
Precomplied DISLIN extensions for Python are available for Windows
95/98/NT,
Linux, FreeBSD, Solaris and Digital UNIX. They can be used freely.
DISLIN distributions and manuals in PDF, PostScript and HTML format are
available from the DISLIN Home Page
http://www.linmpi.mpg.de/dislin
and via FTP from the server
ftp://ftp.gwdg.de/pub/grafik/dislin
-------------------
Helmut Michels
Max-Planck-Institut fuer Aeronomie Phone: +49 5556 979-334
Max-Planck-Str. 2 Fax : +49 5556 979-240
D-37191 Katlenburg-Lindau Mail : michels at linmpi.mpg.de
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Authored by: PJ on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 10:36 AM EST |
Github has historic python materials from 1998. [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: PJ on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 10:46 AM EST |
Here's a paper, "Beyond: A Portable Virtual World Simulation
Framework" by Jason Asbahr, offered in connection with a 1998 conference on
using Python in simulation for games:
Abstract
This paper
presents a global survey of current work on a commercial system, the Beyond
Simulation Framework. Research and development of world simulation control code
for real-time 3D environments is described. General approach, motivations,
architecture, benefits, and the lessons learned are described, as well as future
direction for work in this area. The emphasis is that the dynamic scripting
approach described here has merit applied to the construction of entertainment
and educational virtual environments. ...
While many approaches are
possible, the Python language satisfies the majority of the practical criteria
for this project. The object orientated nature of Python, as well as its
elegant syntax and support for runtime dynamic binding, recommend it for a rapid
production environment. The existence of cross-platform support on Unix,
Macintosh, and Wintel allow for an amazing level of simulation portability,
which is of key importance for the reduction of development time and cost
necessary to reach the broadest audience. Debuggers and profilers are already
available for Python. Further, the high level of extensibility of Python allows
for quick integration of third party libraries for rendering, sound, and network
functionality.
The applicability of Python as a control layer in large-scale
projects is well documented [2, 6]. In addition, projects such as Alice and
PUB demonstrate the applicability of Python to gaming tasks such as virtual
reality, interactive fiction, and MUD systems [15, 21]. Alice in particular is
pivotal in demonstrating both the power of Python in a 3D animation environment
and the ease of scripting it makes possible.
[2] Beazley, D.M., Lomdahl,
P.S., “Feeding a Large Scale Physics Application to Python”, Proceedings of the
6th International Python Conference, San Jose, California, October 14-17, 1997.
[6] Hinsen, K., “The Molecular Modeling Toolkit: a Case Study of a Large
Scientific Application in Python”, Proceedings of the 6th International Python
Conference, San Jose, California, October 14-17, 1997.
[15] Pausch, R., et
al., “A Brief Architectural Overview of Alice, a Rapid Prototyping System for
Virtual Reality”, IEEE Computer Graphics and Applications, May 1995.
[21]
Strout, J., Python Universe Builder , http://www.strout.net/python/, June, 1996.
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Authored by: TiddlyPom on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 10:56 AM EST |
Snake wrangling for
kids (2007)
The
LiveWires Python Course (UK Children's Summer Camp 1999-2002)
Learning Python
(1999)
Introduction to Computer
Programming (using Python) (2005)
and many more of
course.
--- Support Software Freedom - use GPL licenced software
like Linux and LibreOffice instead of proprietary software like Microsoft
Windows/Office or Apple OS/X [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: alisonken1 on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 11:21 AM EST |
I have a mirror of slackware versions back to when it was
first
started.
For Slackware version 2.1, there's a package list showing
that
python support was included in Emacs version 19.10, and
according to
Wikipedia (link to english version)
, Slackware 2.1 was released around
1995.
slackware-2.1/usr/lib/lemacs-19.10/lisp/packages/func-
me
nu.el:;;; Python
support
slackware-2.1/usr/lib/lemacs-19.10/lisp/packages/func-
menu.el:;;;
Makefile, Maple, Modula2, Modula3, Pascal, Perl,
Postscript, PVS,
Python,
slackware-2.1/usr/lib/lemacs-19.10/lisp/packages/func-
menu.el:;;;
Python
support
slackware-2.1/usr/lib/lemacs-19.10/lisp/packages/func-
menu.el:(def
const
fume-function-name-regexp-python
slackware-2.1/usr/lib/lemacs-19.10/lisp/pa
ckages/func-
menu.el: "Expression to get Python class and function
names")
slackware-2.1/usr/lib/lemacs-19.10/lisp/packages/func-
menu.el:
;; Python
slackware-2.1/usr/lib/lemacs-19.10/lisp/packages/func-
menu.el:
(alice-mode .
fume-function-name-regexp-python)
slackware-2.1/usr/lib/lemacs-19.10/lisp/p
ackages/func-
menu.el: (python-mode .
fume-function-name-regexp-python)
slackware-2.1/usr/lib/lemacs-19.10/lisp/p
ackages/func-
menu.el:;;; Specialised routine to find the next Python
function
slackware-2.1/usr/lib/lemacs-19.10/lisp/packages/func-
menu.el:(d
efun fume-find-next-python-function-name
(buffer)
slackware-2.1/usr/lib/lemacs-19.10/lisp/packages/func-
menu.el:
"Searches for the next python function in
BUFFER."
slackware-2.1/usr/lib/lemacs-19.10/lisp/packages/func-
menu.el:
(alice-mode . fume-find-next-python-
function-name)
--- - Ken
-
import std_disclaimer.py
Registered John Doe^W^WLinux user #296561
Slackin' since 1993
http://www.slackware.com [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: PJ on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 11:25 AM EST |
There was a company called Caligari, which was
bought up by Microsoft, which
later decided not
to support it any longer (Wayback has the founder
of
Caligari's letter to users of its product, called
trueSpace, about it, dated 2009). trueSpace was for animation, and you could do
scripts written in Python, according to this Wikipedia article:
In 1993
Octree Software moved from New York to California and became known as Caligari
Corporation. In 1994 trueSpace 1.0 was introduced on the Windows platform. In
early 2008, the company was acquired by Microsoft and trueSpace 7.6 was released
for free.1
As of May 19, 2009, Ormandy announced that TrueSpace
had been discontinued...
One of the most distinctive features of trueSpace is
its interface, using mainly 3D widgets for most common editing operations.
trueSpace can also be scripted, using Python for creating custom scripts, tools
and plugins.... ___________
1 Emil Protalinski. "Result of the
Caligari acquisition: trueSpace 7.6 goes free". Ars Technica. Retrieved
2008-07-25.
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Authored by: artp on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 11:33 AM EST |
Waaaaaay down here....
"Eror" -> "Error" in Title Block, please.
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Authored by: artp on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 11:34 AM EST |
Perl, but no Python.
[No problem for me. I don't know Thing1 about Python.]
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Authored by: artp on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 11:35 AM EST |
URL, Please.
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Authored by: artp on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 11:37 AM EST |
See link above for "Comes v. MS".
Plain text transcriptions of Comes documents with HTML markup
for PJ.
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Userfriendly on WGA server outage:
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 11:55 AM EST |
This is not likely to be news to anybody, but one of the
earliest books about Python was first published in Germany:
Title Das Python-Buch
Authors Martin von Löwis, Nils Fischbeck
Publisher Addison Wesley Verlag, 1997
ISBN 3827311101, 9783827311108
Length 483 pages
I have a copy on my bookshelf that was imported to the US.
Other German Python books (including a new book by the same
authors) are listed here:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/GermanPythonBooks
German happens to be a good language to look in because it's
not widely spoken outside of Europe. Also, Germany had a
high penetration of computers compared, to, say, France at
the time. Might be worth checking Scandinavian languages
and Finnish too.[ Reply to This | # ]
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- Polish - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 11:59 AM EST
- French - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 12:02 PM EST
- SuSE? - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 16 2013 @ 04:56 AM EST
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Authored by: ThrPilgrim on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 12:05 PM EST |
A quick search from The Register website got me
http://www.theregister.co.uk/2005/10/20/support_apache/ from 2005
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Beware of him who would deny you access to information for in his heart he
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Authored by: scav on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 12:07 PM EST |
It's not as though this is likely to be even a close call.
Python was originally created in the Netherlands, in the early 1990's if I
remember correctly. I was using Python 1.5.1 in Scotland (for the Whisky
industry) in the late 90's. And I wasn't even an early adopter or anything.
It had been out there for a while before I noticed it and switched from Java
to Python.
Clearly, any and all kinds of intellectual property can spawn a troll.
I wouldn't have thought 20-year-old trademarks on single well-known words
of the English language would be very promising troll-fodder, but maybe the
company in question is failing due to incompetence and is pulling a SCO, out
of desperation? I'm going to guess: yes.
(Note: by quoting any part of this comment in any way or context, you accept
that I am subject to Scots rather than English libel laws.)
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- What Hubris? - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 16 2013 @ 10:12 PM EST
- What Hubris? - Authored by: lnuss on Sunday, February 17 2013 @ 08:12 AM EST
- What Hubris? - Authored by: PJ on Sunday, February 17 2013 @ 07:47 PM EST
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Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 12:17 PM EST |
I surprised someone would really try this. A Google of Python Programming
Language brings up 15,200,000 results. Googling "Python Programming
Language" brings up 749,000 results.
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Rsteinmetz - IANAL therefore my opinions are illegal.
"I could be wrong now, but I don't think so."
Randy Newman - The Title Theme from Monk
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- Try Python Cloud - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 02:05 PM EST
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 12:17 PM EST |
A quick search through PubMed shows an article titled:
Python: a programming
language for software integration and development.
The article was written by
MF Sanner. It was published in the Journal of Molecular Graphics and Modelling
in 1999 (volume 17, issue 1, pages 57-61).
The PubMed identification is PMID:
10660911.
It references an earlier article: Michel F. Sanner et al. (1998).
Integrating Computation and Visualization for Biomolecular Analysis: An example
using Python and AVS. Proc. Pacific Symposium in Biocomputing ‘99. p.401-412.
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- reference 6 - Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 12:33 PM EST
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 12:27 PM EST |
ABB - a fortune 500 comapany - developed the OMF middleware system in the
mind-90ites. It's mentioned in pythons own archives with an early writeup from
one of the developers of the system:
http://www.python.org/workshops/1996-06/papers/d.larsson-dist-objs.html
This is also a writeup of the system:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/login.jsp?tp=&arnumber=792056&url=http%3A
%2F%2Fieeexplore.ieee.org%2Fiel5%2F6433%2F17161%2F00792056.pdf%3Farnumber%3D7920
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The system had intefaces into many programming languanges one of them was
Python. I'm not sure if the ieee paper mentions python or not but I presume it
does.
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Authored by: capt.Hij on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 12:43 PM EST |
I did a quick search for academic citations for the numpy
library. This
python library was started in the late
nineties and has found widespread use
by academics in
science and math. It returned numerous citations for
published
papers.
For example, there was a whole issue on using Python and
numerical libraries in the IEEE Computing and Science
Journal which is an
international journal:
http://iee
explore.ieee.org/xpl/tocresult.j
sp?isnumber=4160244
For example,
here are some Norwegians who published in
the
issue:
http://ieeexplore.ieee.org/xpl/articleDetail
s.jsp?
tp=&arnumber=4160257&contentType=Journals+%26+Magazines&sort
Type%3Dasc_p_Sequence%26filter%3DAND%28p_IS_Number%3A4160244
%29
An
other example, an international journal with Danish
authors:
http://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007%2F978-3-
642-24449-0_16?LI=true
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 01:02 PM EST |
I'd have thought it worth mentioning the negative effect on the job market such
rebranding would cause. It's obvious from any eu job search site that
"python programmer" and "python developer" have well
understood meanings that are nothing to do with veber.
Didn't a hosting company lose a whole lot of business for paying SCO for Linux
licenses? I wonder if veber checked how many of their clients use python before
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 01:10 PM EST |
I know the Blender Foundation is based in Amsterdam and no
doubt several of the books sold through their store mention
the Python scripting backend it uses, not to mention just the
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 01:48 PM EST |
Not directly related to Python-the-Language, but the compiler of CMUCL
(a Common Lisp implementation) was called Python at least since
somewhere in the '80s.
Not sure about the predecessor project SPICE - but that would range
back even longer.
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Authored by: OpenSourceFTW on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 02:33 PM EST |
You might also search for Django, which I think is Python's answer to Ruby's
Ruby on Rails.
Find companies that use this framework, and you might find more good material.[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 02:50 PM EST |
An excerpt from the copyright notice for the file pysoltk.py follows:
## PySol -- a Python Solitaire game
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## Copyright (C) 2003 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
## Copyright (C) 2002 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
## Copyright (C) 2001 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
## Copyright (C) 2000 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
## Copyright (C) 1999 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
## Copyright (C) 1998 Markus Franz Xaver Johannes Oberhumer
## All Rights Reserved.
##
## This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
## it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
## the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
## (at your option) any later version.
(and more, of course)
The earliest date here is 1998.
Tkilgore, not logged in.[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 03:01 PM EST |
For anyone who doesn't know, it's a serious piece of engineering software now
owned by Dassault Systèmes, a suitably major European company.
Abaqus has
been using Python to allow users to write extensions since 2000, perhaps longer.
IIRC it had a fair chunk of manual devoted to it. This product page is the oldest reference I've found. They were
sufficiently active in the UK to hold their 1999 Users' Conference in Chester with speakers from Rolls Royce
and British Steel. [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: rhdunn on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 03:11 PM EST |
I sent them links to various PDFs of slides from ACCU conferences in the UK
(www.accu.org, only checked back to 2006) and various of their Overload
magazines (only checked #81 and later).
I was not able to find slides to the ACCU 2006 conference which had a track on
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Authored by: rhdunn on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 03:54 PM EST |
See also (year is for the first European release):
# Video Games using Python as a Scripting Engine
Freedom Force [2002] - Irrational Games
Eve Online [2003] - CCP Games
The Temple of Elemental Evil [2003] - Troika Games
Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines [2004] - Troika Games
Battlefield 2 [2005] - EA Games
Civilization IV [2005] - Firaxis Games
Freedom Force vs the 3rd Reich [2005] - Irrational Games
Vega Strike [2012]
# Software partially written in Python
See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Python_software
Of note:
GNU Bazaar [2005] - Canonical (based in the UK)
Mercurial [2005] - Used by Mozilla, W3C and others (including the MoinMoin wiki
software)
Calibre [2006]
Also, anyone using Ubuntu (e.g. via the Ubuntu Software Center), Gentoo (e.g.
via Portage) and RedHat (via the YUM package manager) are all dependent on
Python as those applications are written in it.
As are anyone who uses MoinMoin (wiki), Planet (feed aggregator), Plone (content
management system), Roundup and Trac (bug/issue trackers) or ViewVCS (CVS and
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 04:47 PM EST |
FWIW, List of Python Conferences:
http://ftp.ntua.gr/mirror/python/workshops/
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 06:02 PM EST |
Can nobody use whois? The python.org.uk domain was registered (by the
company
seeking the trademark) in October 1997.
Can nobody use the European
Trademark database? Multiple companies have a
trademark on "Python".
St
ory at the Guardian. [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 07:07 PM EST |
Well, it sounds like the python language along with python.org has been around
for a rather long time. Longer in fact than the pinched python.co.uk domain
name.
Wouldn't it be appropriate to go to the 'internet gods' and ask for this domain
name back, as by all accounts, the current owners were just squatting and
redirecting to their own active domain names while not using python mark in any
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- Flip the issue - Authored by: Wol on Saturday, February 16 2013 @ 04:58 AM EST
- Flip the issue - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 16 2013 @ 02:31 PM EST
- Flip the issue - Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 16 2013 @ 02:58 PM EST
- Flip the issue - Authored by: Wol on Saturday, February 16 2013 @ 04:33 PM EST
- Flip the issue - Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 17 2013 @ 01:57 PM EST
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 07:17 PM EST |
910220 Python distribution posted to alt.sources. Source
920408 Python 0.9.6. Source
930109 Python 0.9.8. Source
931102 An Introduction to Python. PDF 1 PDF 2
931226 Python FAQ. Source
940124 Python FAQ. Source
940128 Python 1.0.0. Source
940526 Draft Proposal for New Python Syntax. Source
941026 An Overview of Python. PDF 1 PDF 2
950102 Python FAQ. Source
950411 Python 1.2. Source
950918 Join the Python Software Activity. Source
960910 Python FAQ. Source
961025 Python 1.4. Source
970604 The official "Python Powered" logo. Source
9710xx Python and Java: The Best of Both Worlds. PDF
9710xx Python in a Commercial Environment. PDF
971231 Python 1.5. Source
980414 Python 1.5.1. Source
980515 Help me convince my boss. Source
981106 Python Interfaces. Source
981116 Python 2 ideas. Source
990206 Python and Ruby. Source
990414 Python 1.5.2. Source
991029 Comparison between Python and Ruby. Source
000302 Python advocacy. Source
000530 Python Development Team Moves to BeOpen.com. Source
000724 Open letter to Guido van Rossum. Source
000726 The State of Python. Source
000801 Still no new license but draft text available. Source More More
More
000905 Python 1.6. Source
001016 Python 2.0. Source
001027 PythonLabs Team Moves to Digital Creations. Source
010124 Python vs Ruby. Source
010227 Python 1.6.1 released towards GPL incompatibility. Source
010417 Python 2.1. Source
010614 Python 2.0.1c1 - GPL-compatible release candidate. Source
010831 Python descendant to Perl? Source
*********
Path: gmdzi!unido!mcsun!hp4nl!charon!guido
From: gu...@cwi.nl (Guido van Rossum)
Newsgroups: comp.sys.sgi
Subject: Python distribution posted to alt.sources
Message-ID: <2986@charon.cwi.nl>
Date: 19 Feb 91 17:56:47 GMT
Sender: n...@cwi.nl
Lines: 83
I have posted a beta releast of my Python language to alt.sources.
This language is particularly of interest to SGI users since it
contains an interactive interface to the *full* GL library.
Below is the README of that posting. Note that I cancelled part 02 of
the distribution since it contained a huge generated file -- not to
worry.
--
Guido van Rossum, CWI, Amsterdam <gu...@cwi.nl>
"He used to be a euphemism, now he's just a friend"
----- README follows -----
This is Python, an extensible interpreted programming language that
combines remarkable power with very clear syntax.
This is version 0.9 (the first beta release), patchlevel 1.
Python can be used instead of shell, Awk or Perl scripts, to write
prototypes of real applications, or as an extension language of large
systems, you name it. There are built-in modules that interface to
the operating system and to various window systems: X11, the Mac
window system (you need STDWIN for these two), and Silicon Graphics'
GL library. It runs on most modern versions of UNIX, on the Mac, and
I wouldn't be surprised if it ran on MS-DOS unchanged. I developed it
mostly on an SGI IRIS workstation (using IRIX 3.1 and 3.2) and on the
Mac, but have tested it also on SunOS (4.1) and BSD 4.3 (tahoe).
Building and installing Python is easy (but do read the Makefile).
A UNIX style manual page and extensive documentation (in LaTeX format)
are provided. (In the beta release, the documentation is still under
development.)
Please try it out and send me your comments (on anything -- the
language design, implementation, portability, installation,
documentation) and the modules you wrote for it, to make the first
real release better. If you needed to hack the source to get it to
compile and run on a particular machine, send me the fixes -- I'll try
to incorporate them into the next patch. If you can't get it to work
at all, send me a *detailed* description of the problem and I may look
into it.
If you want to profit of the X11 or Mac window interface, you'll need
STDWIN. This is a portable window system interface by the same
author. The versions of STDWIN floating around on some archives are
not sufficiently up-to-date for use with Python. I will distribute
the latest and greatest STDWIN version at about the same time as Python.
I am the author of Python:
Guido van Rossum
CWI, dept. CST
Kruislaan 413
1098 SJ Amsterdam
The Netherlands
E-mail: gu...@cwi.nl
The Python source is copyrighted, but you can freely use and copy it
as long as you don't change or remove the copyright:
/***********************************************************
Copyright 1991 by Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands.
All Rights Reserved
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted,
provided that the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that
both that copyright notice and this permission notice appear in
supporting documentation, and that the names of Stichting Mathematisch
Centrum or CWI not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining to
distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission.
STICHTING MATHEMATISCH CENTRUM DISCLAIMS ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO
THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND
FITNESS, IN NO EVENT SHALL STICHTING MATHEMATISCH CENTRUM BE LIABLE
FOR ANY SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES
WHATSOEVER RESULTING FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN
ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT
OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
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Authored by: PJ on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 07:45 PM EST |
Guido van Rossum's 1994 World Tour:
http://www.python.org/workshops/1994-11/pictures/Guido3.gif
NIST Workshop:
http://www.python.org/workshops/1994-11/sftwr-mgmt-report.html
Attendees:
http://www.python.org/workshops/1994-11/attendees.pics.html
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Authored by: Chromatix on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 08:44 PM EST |
CCP, the publisher of the very successful MMORPG EVE Online, is based in
Iceland - which is a member of the European Economic Area and has applied for
membership of the EU.
EVE Online is largely implemented in Stackless
Python, a version of the Python
language that omits the standard library.
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Authored by: Chromatix on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 08:48 PM EST |
The hilariously successful Raspberry Pi, a low-cost computer intended for early
computer science education (but finding many other uses too) takes part of it's
name from an abbreviation of "Python".
The entire concept of the machine
was based around having a low-cost
computer capable of running the Python
language, which is considered relatively
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Authored by: Anonymous on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 09:13 PM EST |
Python Tutorial
Guido van Rossum
Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI)
1895 Preston White Drive, Reston, Va 20191, USA
E-mail: guido@CNRI.Reston.Va.US, guido@python.org
October 25, 1996
Release 1.4
Copyright © 1991-1995 by Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, The
Netherlands.
All Rights Reserved
Permission to use, copy, modify, and distribute this software and its
documentation for any purpose and without fee is hereby granted, provided that
the above copyright notice appear in all copies and that both that copyright
notice and this permission notice appear in supporting documentation, and that
the names of Stichting Mathematisch Centrum or CWI or Corporation for National
Research Initiatives or CNRI not be used in advertising or publicity pertaining
to distribution of the software without specific, written prior permission.
While CWI is the initial source for this software, a modified version is made
available by the Corporation for National Research Initiatives (CNRI) at the
Internet address ftp://ftp.python.org.
STICHTING MATHEMATISCH CENTRUM AND CNRI DISCLAIM ALL WARRANTIES WITH REGARD TO
THIS SOFTWARE, INCLUDING ALL IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS,
IN NO EVENT SHALL STICHTING MATHEMATISCH CENTRUM OR CNRI BE LIABLE FOR ANY
SPECIAL, INDIRECT OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES OR ANY DAMAGES WHATSOEVER RESULTING
FROM LOSS OF USE, DATA OR PROFITS, WHETHER IN AN ACTION OF CONTRACT, NEGLIGENCE
OR OTHER TORTIOUS ACTION, ARISING OUT OF OR IN CONNECTION WITH THE USE OR
PERFORMANCE OF THIS SOFTWARE.
Abstract:
Python is a simple, yet powerful programming language that bridges the gap
between C and shell programming, and is thus ideally suited for ``throw-away
programming'' and rapid prototyping. Its syntax is put together from constructs
borrowed from a variety of other languages; most prominent are influences from
ABC, C, Modula-3 and Icon.
The Python interpreter is easily extended with new functions and data types
implemented in C. Python is also suitable as an extension language for highly
customizable C applications such as editors or window managers.
Python is available for various operating systems, amongst which several flavors
of Unix, the Apple Macintosh, MS-DOS, Windows (3.1(1), '95 and NT flavors),
OS/2, and others.
This tutorial introduces the reader informally to the basic concepts and
features of the Python language and system. It helps to have a Python
interpreter handy for hands-on experience, but as the examples are
self-contained, the tutorial can be read off-line as well.
For a description of standard objects and modules, see the Python Library
Reference document. The Python Reference Manual gives a more formal definition
of the language.
Contents
1 Whetting Your Appetite
1.1 Disclaimer
1.2 Introduction
1.3 Where From Here
2 Using the Python Interpreter
2.1 Invoking the Interpreter
2.1.1 Argument Passing
2.1.2 Interactive Mode
2.2 The Interpreter and its Environment
2.2.1 Error Handling
2.2.2 The Module Search Path
2.2.3 ``Compiled'' Python files
2.2.4 Executable Python scripts
2.2.5 The Interactive Startup File
2.3 Interactive Input Editing and History Substitution
2.3.1 Line Editing
2.3.2 History Substitution
2.3.3 Key Bindings
2.3.4 Commentary
3 An Informal Introduction to Python
3.1 Using Python as a Calculator
3.1.1 Numbers
3.1.2 Strings
3.1.3 Lists
3.2 First Steps Towards Programming
4 More Control Flow Tools
4.1 If Statements
4.2 For Statements
4.3 The range() Function
4.4 Break and Continue Statements, and Else Clauses on Loops
4.5 Pass Statements
4.6 Defining Functions
5 Odds and Ends
5.1 More on Lists
5.2 The del statement
5.3 Tuples and Sequences
5.4 Dictionaries
5.5 More on Conditions
5.6 Comparing Sequences and Other Types
6 Modules
6.1 More on Modules
6.2 Standard Modules
6.3 The dir() function
7 Output Formatting
8 Errors and Exceptions
8.1 Syntax Errors
8.2 Exceptions
8.3 Handling Exceptions
8.4 Raising Exceptions
8.5 User-defined Exceptions
8.6 Defining Clean-up Actions
9 Classes
9.1 A word about terminology
9.2 Python scopes and name spaces
9.3 A first look at classes
9.3.1 Class definition syntax
9.3.2 Class objects
9.3.3 Instance objects
9.3.4 Method objects
9.4 Random remarks
9.5 Inheritance
9.5.1 Multiple inheritance
9.6 Odds and ends
10 Recent Additions as of Release 1.1
10.1 The Last Printed Expression
10.2 String Literals
10.2.1 Double Quotes
10.2.2 Continuation Of String Literals
10.2.3 Triple-quoted strings
10.2.4 String Literal Juxtaposition
10.3 The Formatting Operator
10.3.1 Basic Usage
10.3.2 Referencing Variables By Name
10.4 Optional Function Arguments
10.4.1 Default Argument Values
10.4.2 Arbitrary Argument Lists
10.5 Lambda And Functional Programming Tools
10.5.1 Lambda Forms
10.5.2 Map, Reduce and Filter
10.6 Continuation Lines Without Backslashes
10.7 Regular Expressions
10.8 Generalized Dictionaries
10.9 Miscellaneous New Built-in Functions
10.10 Else Clause For Try Statement
10.11 New Class Features in Release 1.1
10.11.1 New Operator Overloading
10.11.2 Trapping Attribute Access
10.11.3 Calling a Class Instance
11 New in Release 1.2
11.1 New Class Features
11.2 Unix Signal Handling
11.3 Exceptions Can Be Classes
11.4 Object Persistency and Object Copying
11.4.1 Persistent Objects
11.4.2 Copying Objects
11.5 Documentation Strings
11.6 Customizing Import and Built-Ins
11.7 Python and the World-Wide Web
11.8 Miscellaneous
12 New in Release 1.3
12.1 Keyword Arguments
12.2 Changes to the WWW and Internet tools
12.3 Other Language Changes
12.4 Changes to Built-in Operations
12.5 Library Changes
12.6 Other Changes
13 New in Release 1.4
13.1 Language Changes
13.2 Run-time Changes
13.3 New or Updated Modules
13.4 Configuration and Installation
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Authored by: cjk fossman on Friday, February 15 2013 @ 10:58 PM EST |
SuSE was a German distro back in the day.
I had one of the green Suse 4.2 boxes, but it's gone now.
I'm pretty sure Python was part of it.
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Authored by: bugstomper on Saturday, February 16 2013 @ 07:13 AM EST |
Université Bordeaux 1
Licence MISMI MIS 102 : Initiation à
l'informatique
Dernière mise à jour effectuée le 10 Octobre 2003 Documentations - Le langage de programmation
Python
Université Paris 13 - IUT Villetaneuse Enseignement Python en GTR 2001 - 2002 archived Feb
2002, contains historical exams from Python course in 2000.
Pasteur
Institute Introduction to Programming using Python Programming Course
for Biologists at the Pasteur Institute Copyright © 2003 Pasteur Institute,
January, 6 2003
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 16 2013 @ 10:01 AM EST |
Python was used with Mandrake (then a French distro) in 1999. Here's a link:
http://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/1999-November.tx
I did a google search using: "mandrake python
daterange:2447938-2451590"
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 16 2013 @ 01:14 PM EST |
Check Dr Dobb's Journal. It covered most emerging technologies! [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Saturday, February 16 2013 @ 03:35 PM EST |
The British Library (http://www.bl.uk/) receives a copy of every book published
in the UK and has a nice on-line catalogue. It may also receive copies of some
books not actually published in the UK so lets be cautious.
Assuming this canned query works, it should show all their books on Python
(specifically just the programming language, no snakes or comedians) in date
order:
http://explore.bl.uk/primo_library/libweb/action/search.do?srt=lso01&dscnt=0
&fctN=facet_topic&fctN=facet_rtype&fctV=Python%20%28Computer%20progr
am%20language%29&fctV=books&tab=local_tab&dstmp=1361045265376&ct
=facet&mode=Basic&indx=1&fromLogin=true&vl%28freeText0%29=python
&fn=search&vid=BLVU1
The first hit seems to be from 1996:
Title: Internet programming with Python / Aaron Watters, Guido van Rossum,
James C. Ahlstrom.
Publication Details: New York ; [Great Britain] : M&T Books, c1996.
So what does that "Great Britain" in square brackets mean? Does it
imply that the book was published in the UK or just that it was imported to the
UK? What about the "c" on "c1996"? Are they not sure of the
actual year of publication?
The next hit is still unambiguously in the 20th century:
Title: Programming with Python / Tim Altom with Mitch Chapman.
Publication Details: [Rocklin, Calif. ; Great Britain] : Prima Tech, 1999.
Surely that insicates a UK publication, right?
Just in case, lets look at the next hit:
Title: Python and Tkinter programming.
Publication Details: Greenwich, Conn. : Manning ; London : Financial Times
Management, 1999.
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Authored by: AMc on Sunday, February 17 2013 @ 03:42 AM EST |
Try looking for university abstracts or government reports making use of
ArcView/ArcInfo GIS software from 1996 on. Python scripting has been a staple
of the ArcView (now ArcGIS) product line since at least the version 3.x series.
I'm not sure if evidence introduced in the SCO trial would be acceptable, but it
might be another source for citations. I think early versions of OpenServer ran
GNU Mailman, which made use of Python as well. That would have been 1998-1999
timeframe I think, the days of their Skunkworks project.
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Authored by: The Cornishman on Sunday, February 17 2013 @ 10:08 AM EST |
I have a cover CD from LINUXformat magazine (ref LXF03/07/00 dated July
2000), produced by Future Publishing and helpfully having the words "Made in the
EU" on the face of the disc.
Included on the CD is
Essentials/python/python152.tgz, being a source tarball for Python, marked
within Python-1.5.2/README as Copyright 1991-1995 by Stichting
Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. All Rights
Reserved
Future Publishing is still extant as Future plc.
Reg No 3757874 England. 30 Monmouth Street, Bath, BA1 2BW, UK; http://www.futureplc.com/ --- (c)
assigned to PJ
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Authored by: The Cornishman on Sunday, February 17 2013 @ 11:30 AM EST |
I see several references to publications in English which may or may not
have been published from within European countries.
The README file for
Python 1.5.2 referencesDas Python-Buch which was published in Bonn in
1997 (Source:
Buchpreis-Suche
I have also found:
Mit Python
programmieren (in German)
By Tobias Himstedt and Klaus
Mänzel
dpunkt.verlag, 1999, 271 pages
ISBN:
3-920993-85-3
dpunkt.verlag are at an address in
Heidelberg, see http://www.dpunkt.de/kontakt_adr
esse.php --- (c) assigned to PJ
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 17 2013 @ 03:13 PM EST |
is how
IPKat thinks a python could be described. More seriously they ponder
on the
lack of formal methods for getting public input to the
system.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 17 2013 @ 07:15 PM EST |
Trademark doesn't work like that.
It is to protect a NEW brand, on a certain market segment.
The fact that the brand is not new and is in the wild just makes the trademark
useless.
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Authored by: Anonymous on Sunday, February 17 2013 @ 11:47 PM EST |
look up the various european Wikipedia entries for Python.
The change history
is especially useful, as it would
indicate both when the entry was created, and
how the page
has been updated over time.
(I only read English, and a wee
bit of French, so I wouldn't
be the best candidate).
Also: googling for 'python
programmer leeds' found
and that's
just Leeds (I picked as a random British city,
knowing that I'd be able to read
any of the pages that
popped up). Pick a
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 18 2013 @ 09:11 AM EST |
I wonder if there is M$ connction here? This seems like an
attemp to dilute FLOSS. Also, Raspberry Pi is heavy on Python
and has become quite popular and I have been concerned that
M$ might try to sabatage it somehow. I don't mean to be
paranoid, but as long as M$ and FLOSS exist there will be no
peace in the FLOSS world.
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Authored by: JamesK on Monday, February 18 2013 @ 12:28 PM EST |
Here's an article in Linux
Journal from January 1996.
"An Introduction to Python
Jan 01, 1996
By Jeff Bauer
in
Software
Python is an extensible, high-level,
interpreted, object-oriented programming language. Ready for use in the real
world, it's also free.
$ python
Python 1.2 (Jun 3, 1995) [GCC
2.6.3]
Copyright 1991-1995 Sitchting Mathematisch Centrum,
Amsterdam
>> print "hello, bruce"
hello, bruce
>>
[CONTROL]-D"
Hope this helps.
--- The following program
contains immature subject matter.
Viewer discretion is advised. [ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, February 18 2013 @ 01:50 PM EST |
Some of the following companies may be intereseted in helping fight against the
trademark registration.
Python Limited, Company Number: 07359966. Inc. Date: 27 Aug 2010
Reg. Add.: 7 Birkenhead House,Liverpool Road,London,N7 8QD,United Kingdom
Trading Add: Flat 7, Birkenhead House, Liverpool Road, London, N7 8QD
SIC Code: 7210, Hardware Consultancy
Python Systems Ltd, Company Number: 07551995. Inc. Date: 04 Mar 2011
Reg. Add.: Carpenter Court 1 Maple Road,Bramhall,Stockport,Cheshire,SK7 2DH
Trading Add: Carpenter Court, 1 Maple Road, Bramhall, Stockport, Cheshire, SK7
2DH
SIC Code: 7222, Other Software Consultancy & Supply
Python Technology Limited, Company Number: 03657532. Inc. Date: 28 Oct 1998
Reg. Add.: 6 North Quay,Abingdon,Oxfordshire,OX14 5RY,United Kingdom
Trading Add: 6 North Quay, Abingdon, Oxfordshire, OX14 5RY,
SIC Code: 7210, Hardware Consultancy
Python Technical Services Limited, Company Number: 07619754. Inc. Date: 03 May
2011
Reg. Add.: Lupins Business Centre,1-3 Greenhill,Weymouth,Dorset,DT4 7SP
Trading Add: Lupins Business Centre, 1-3 Greenhill, Weymouth, Dorset, DT4 7SP
SIC Code: 7222, Other Software Consultancy & Supply
Python Computing Limited, Company Number: 03385861. Inc. Date: 12 Jun 1997
Reg. Add.: 27 Crofthead Drive,Cramlington,Northumberland,NE23 6LG,United
Kingdom
Trading Add: 27 Crofthead Drive, Cramlington, Northumberland, NE23 6LG,
SIC Code: 7210, Hardware Consultancy
Python Networking Limited, Company Number: 03759614. Inc. Date: 27 Apr 1999
Reg. Add.: 5 Greenfields Close,Hindley,Wigan,Lancashire,WN2 4EL
Trading Add: 5 Greenfields Close, Hindley, Wigan, Lancashire, WN2 4EL
SIC Code: 7260, Other Computer Related Activities
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Authored by: veatnik on Monday, February 18 2013 @ 07:02 PM EST |
The fact that there are many job postings asking for Python experience shows
that the term python as referring to software experience is in general talking
about python programming rather than some new product by this company might be
sufficient grounds to toss the application. I believe that in the US a term
being trademarked cannot have a known meaning within the area of the application
(in this case software trademarks). I think in the US this by itself would be
enough to have the application denied.
So would EU job postings for python programmers help to demonstrate a current
usage for the term python in software that would bar the application?[ Reply to This | # ]
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 19 2013 @ 12:39 AM EST |
AFAIK, The first digit of an ISBN (10 digit, not the 13 digit ones which all
start 978; in which case it's the fourth digit) is the country code.
All ISBNs starting with a 1 are USA. As such, their publication may not
necessarily indicate usage of Python in Europe. The usage of the Dollar in USA
does NOT indicate usage of it in Europe; Europe mainly uses either the Euro or
Pound.
ISBNs starting with a 0 are UK and so should indicate awareness of the language
and suggest usage thereof.
ISBNs (IIRC) were originally set up by WH Smiths (as SBNs) to handle referencing
their inventory of books with 8 digits and a check digit. When adopted
nationally and internationally, the first digit was 0 for the UK to avoid
changing all the SBNs so issued. They are 10 digits long - the first 9 uniquely
reference the publication and the last digit (or X) is a check digit based the
other 9 digits mod 11. The 13 digit version is a standard UPC-A bar code for
the publication: first 3 digits are 978, then the next 9 are the original ISBN
digits and the last digit is the standard UPC-A check digit (for all the
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 19 2013 @ 08:56 AM EST |
Chinese Army Unit Is Seen as Tied to Hacking Against U.S.
On the outskirts of Shanghai, in a run-down neighborhood dominated by a 12-story
white office tower, sits a People’s Liberation Army base for China’s growing
corps of cyberwarriors.
The building off Datong Road, surrounded by restaurants, massage parlors and a
wine importer, is the headquarters of P.L.A. Unit 61398. A growing body of
digital forensic evidence — confirmed by American intelligence officials who say
they have tapped into the activity of the army unit for years — leaves little
doubt that an overwhelming percentage of the attacks on American corporations,
organizations and government agencies originate in and around the white tower.
An unusually detailed 60-page study, to be released Tuesday by Mandiant, an
American computer security firm, tracks for the first time individual members of
the most sophisticated of the Chinese hacking groups — known to many of its
victims in the United States as “Comment Crew” or “Shanghai Group” — to the
doorstep of the military unit’s headquarters. The firm was
More
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/19/technology/chinas-army-is-seen-as-tied-to-hack
ing-against-us.html?_r=0
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Authored by: Anonymous on Tuesday, February 19 2013 @ 11:27 AM EST |
https://www.studentlitteratur.se/#32256-01 (Book on Python
programming 2006)
http://libris.kb.se/hitlist?f=&q=AMNE%3a%28PYTHON+programspr%C3%A5k+%29&
r=&m=10&s=r&t=v&d=libris&p=1 (various books on Python)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_%28programming_language%29 (Nokia among many
other users of Python)
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Authored by: Anonymous on Thursday, February 21 2013 @ 06:09 PM EST |
Would this help? It's the first edition of Programming
Python" dated 1996.
The only library that I could find
(through Google Books) that contains it, is
in Denmark.
Here's the link from worldcat:
Link
to Programming
Python
If someone can get a copy of it from the
library, you
could scan it and send it in maybe.
Have a great
day.:)
Patrick. [ Reply to This | # ]
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