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README

-This is Python release 1.5.1
-============================
-
-This version is officially released on Tuesday, April 14, 1998.  It is
-mostly a bugfix release on Python 1.5.
+This is Python release 1.5.2a1
+==============================
 
 
 What's new in this release?
 ---------------------------
 
-See the Misc/NEWS file.  Nothing spectacular this time, only small
-changes (as you would expect from a release called "1.5.1").
-
-One big organizational change: the documentation sources have been
-unbundled.  We will release a version of the Doc subtree separately,
-but probably not simultaneously with the source release.
+See the Misc/NEWS file.  Nothing spectacular this time.  The BeOS port 
+is now integrated, courtesy Chris Herborth (see below).
 
 
 If you don't read instructions
@@ -258,11 +251,12 @@ QNX:	Chris Herborth (chrish@qnx.com) writes:
 	   activate everything that makes sense for your system... tested
 	   here at QNX with the following modules:
 
-		array, audioop, binascii, cPickle, cStringIO, cmath, crypt, curses,
-		errno, fcntl, gdbm, grp, imageop, _locale, math, md5, new, operator,
-		parser, pcre, posix, pwd, readline, regex, reop, rgbimg, rotor,
-		select, signal, socket, soundex, strop, struct, syslog, termios,
-		time, timing, zlib
+		array, audioop, binascii, cPickle, cStringIO, cmath,
+		crypt, curses, errno, fcntl, gdbm, grp, imageop,
+		_locale, math, md5, new, operator, parser, pcre,
+		posix, pwd, readline, regex, reop, rgbimg, rotor,
+		select, signal, socket, soundex, strop, struct,
+		syslog, termios, time, timing, zlib
 
 		Newly compiled/tested in 1.5.1:
 
@@ -276,34 +270,38 @@ QNX:	Chris Herborth (chrish@qnx.com) writes:
 
 	4) make SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash test
 
-	   The socket test might fail in the test harness; going through it by 
-	   hand shows that they work.
+	   The socket test might fail in the test harness; going
+	   through it by hand shows that they work.
 
-	   A good exercise for the reader: make this work "out of the box".
-	   
-	   Using GNU readline 2.2 seems to behave strangely, but I think that's
-	   a problem with my readline 2.2 port.  :-\
+	   A good exercise for the reader: make this work "out of the
+	   box".
+
+	   Using GNU readline 2.2 seems to behave strangely, but I
+	   think that's a problem with my readline 2.2 port.  :-\
 
 	5) make SHELL=/usr/local/bin/bash install
 
-	If you get SIGSEGVs while running Python (I haven't yet, but I've
-	only run small programs and the test cases), you're probably running
-	out of stack; the default 32k could be a little tight.  To increase
-	the stack size, edit the Makefile in the Modules directory to read:
-	LDFLAGS = -N 48k
+	If you get SIGSEGVs while running Python (I haven't yet, but
+	I've only run small programs and the test cases), you're
+	probably running out of stack; the default 32k could be a
+	little tight.  To increase the stack size, edit the Makefile
+	in the Modules directory to read: LDFLAGS = -N 48k
 
 BeOS:	Chris Herborth (chrish@qnx.com) writes:
 	See BeOS/README for notes about compiling/installing Python on
-	BeOS R3 or later.  Note that only the PowerPC platform is supported
-	at this time, but feel free to try building it on x86.
+	BeOS R3 or later.  Note that only the PowerPC platform is
+	supported at this time, but feel free to try building it on
+	x86.
 
 Cray T3E: Konrad Hinsen writes:
-	1) Don't use gcc. It compiles Python/graminit.c into something that
-	   the Cray assembler doesn't like. Cray's cc seems to work fine.
-	2) Uncomment modules md5 (won't compile) and audioop (will crash
-	   the interpreter during the test suite).
-	If you run the test suite, two tests will fail (rotate and binascii),
-	but these are not the modules you'd expect to need on a Cray.
+	1) Don't use gcc. It compiles Python/graminit.c into something
+	   that the Cray assembler doesn't like. Cray's cc seems to work
+	   fine.
+	2) Uncomment modules md5 (won't compile) and audioop (will
+	   crash the interpreter during the test suite).
+	If you run the test suite, two tests will fail (rotate and
+	binascii), but these are not the modules you'd expect to need
+	on a Cray.
 
 SGI:	SGI's standard "make" utility (/bin/make or /usr/bin/make)
 	does not check whether a command actually changed the file it