Python CE 1.0b1
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This is the 1.0b1 release of Python CE. If you are new to Python,
I *highly* suggest that you download a desktop version from the 
Python website (www.python.org) and become familiar with it before 
using it on your HPC. For memory reasons, Python CE installs no docs, 
and there are very few readable source files - it is *not* the way
to start learning Python.

The bare beginnings of Python CE documentation are available online
at http://www.digicool.com/~brian/PythonCE/index.html. Questions, 
comments and bug reports can be emailed to me at brian@digicool.com.


Installation
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  o Create the directory \Program Files\Python on your HPC

  o Copy the files python.exe and python15.dll to the \Windows
    directory on your HPC

  o Copy everything else to the \Program Files\Python directory 
    on your HPC

  o Make a shortcut to \Windows\Python.exe
    on your desktop, if desired


New in this release
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  o The bug that prevented Python CE from running from a flash
    card on CE 2.0 devices has been fixed.

  o Fixed a bug in os.listdir

  o Support for a number of new modules: socket, re, httplib, 
    ftplib, smtplib


Caveats
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  o There is still a mysterious dll loading problem on
    HP devices.

  o No python command-line options are recognized.

  o Floats are not printable ;(

  o Errors raised by the win32* modules tend to be pretty 
    cryptic - CE (1.0 at least) doesn't support FormatMessage.


Copyright 
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Copyright 1998 Brian Lloyd. All rights reserved. 


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