= 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 licensing is GPL compatible.

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

== Upstream Contact ==

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

== Dependencies ==

 * GNU patch
 * readline
 * libpng
 * SQLite

== Special Update/Build Instructions ==

 * Remove src/Lib/distutils/command/wininst-*.exe when building a
   new spkg. 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 is with
   parallel 'make install', which remains disabled.
 * Spaces in SAGE_ROOT aren't yet fully supported by this package,
   since we put $SAGE_LOCAL/... into CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS, which
   wouldn't work then.

=== Patches ===

 * socket.patch: Work around an SSL issue.
 * permissions.patch: Changes the permission of installed libraries
   to 0755 (like any other library) instead of 0555.
 * sys_path_security-issue_16202.patch: ensure that the current working
   directory or the script directory is prepended to sys.path only if
   there is no security risk in doing so.
 * ncurses-issue_9665.patch: Fixes Python issue #9665 (by patching configure
   and configure.in after running autotools).
 * ncurses-issue_14438.patch: Fixes Python issue #14438 (ncurses)
 * disable_print_refs_debug.patch: Remove some unused debug output
   that breaks doctests.
 * no_strict_proto-issue_5755.patch: don't add -Wstrict-prototypes compiler
   flag, which isn't valid for C++ (but Python uses the same compiler flags
   for C and C++). See http://bugs.python.org/issue5755.
 * hashlibfallbacks-issue_18000.patch: Fixed Python issue #18000.
 * tinfo.patch: make sure tinfo is correctly linked in when needed on Cygwin.
 * uuid-issue_11063.patch: patch from Python issue 11063; reduce uuid
   module import side effects and fix thread related issues.
 * getcallargs-issue_20108.patch: fix inspect.getcallargs() when the
   function has a "func" keyword argument. Needed for @interact from
   ipywidgets.
