I have released an update of my port of Python 2.0 to OS/2, using the EMX compiler/runtime tools. Significant changes since the 31 March, 2001 release: - dynamically loadable modules with module names longer than 8 characters are now handled by silently truncating the name to 8 characters during import. - I have implemented native popen[234]() interfaces, modelled very closely on the Win32 implementation. Redirecting Python's stdio & stderr no longer results in bizarreness with popen[234](). - DistUtils is now OS/2&EMX aware. I'm not sure whether I've covered all cases, but it is sufficiently functional to build and install NumPy v19.0.0, including the extra packages in the Numpy sourceball. - A variant of the port incorporating Christian Tismer's Stackless Python patches is now available. - I have written Python library modules that substitute for the standard extension modules pwd and grp, located in Lib/plat-os2emx. These replacement modules fully support Unix style passwd and group database files, and obey the interface documented in the Python Library reference for the pwd and grp modules. Binary installation archives for both standard (python-2.0-os2emx-bin-010425.zip) and Stackless Python (python-2.0-os2emx-slbin-010425.zip, accompanied by an archive containing source patches and makefiles (python-2.0-os2emx-src-010425.zip, have been uploaded to the incoming directories at the Hobbes (http://hobbes.nmsu.edu/) and LEO (http://archiv.leo.org/) OS/2 software archives, and will hopefully be available for download shortly. The complete README for this update can be accessed via http://www.pcug.org.au/~andymac/software.html, along with the above packages (please get the packages from Hobbes or LEO where possible). Getting 2.1 ported to OS/2 is now the objective. -- Andrew I MacIntyre "These thoughts are mine alone..." E-mail: andrew.macintyre@aba.gov.au (work) | Snail: PO Box 370 andymac@bullseye.apana.org.au (play) | Belconnen ACT 2616 andymac@pcug.org.au (play2) | Australia