[[revision_history]]
== Appendix: Revision History

* 3.0
  ** 31 Mar 2014
  ** Rewritten using http://asciidoctor.org/docs/what-is-asciidoc/[AsciiDoc] and
     https://github.com/sensorflo/adoc-mode/wiki[adoc-mode].
* 2.1
  ** 03 Aug 2013
  ** Rewritten using Markdown and http://jblevins.org/projects/markdown-mode/[Jason Blevins'
     Markdown Mode]
* 2.0
  ** 20 Oct 2012
  ** Rewritten in http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html[Pandoc format], thanks to my wife
     who did most of the conversion from the Mediawiki format
  ** Simplifying text, removing non-essential sections such as `nonlocal` and metaclasses
* 1.90
  ** 04 Sep 2008 and still in progress
  ** Revival after a gap of 3.5 years!
  ** Rewriting for Python 3.0
  ** Rewrite using http://www.mediawiki.org[MediaWiki] (again)
* 1.20
  ** 13 Jan 2005
  ** Complete rewrite using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanta_Plus[Quanta+] on
     http://fedoraproject.org/[Fedora] Core 3 with lot of corrections and updates. Many new
     examples. Rewrote my DocBook setup from scratch.
* 1.15
  ** 28 Mar 2004
  ** Minor revisions
* 1.12
  ** 16 Mar 2004
  ** Additions and corrections
* 1.10
  ** 09 Mar 2004
  ** More typo corrections, thanks to many enthusiastic and helpful readers.
* 1.00
  ** 08 Mar 2004
  ** After tremendous feedback and suggestions from readers, I have made significant revisions to
     the content along with typo corrections.
* 0.99
  ** 22 Feb 2004
  ** Added a new chapter on modules. Added details about variable number of arguments in functions.
* 0.98
  ** 16 Feb 2004
  ** Wrote a Python script and CSS stylesheet to improve XHTML output, including a
     crude-yet-functional lexical analyzer for automatic VIM-like syntax highlighting of the
     program listings.
* 0.97
  ** 13 Feb 2004
  ** Another completely rewritten draft, in DocBook XML (again). Book has improved a lot - it is
     more coherent and readable.
* 0.93
  ** 25 Jan 2004
  ** Added IDLE talk and more Windows-specific stuff
* 0.92
  ** 05 Jan 2004
  ** Changes to few examples.
* 0.91
  ** 30 Dec 2003
  ** Corrected typos. Improvised many topics.
* 0.90
  ** 18 Dec 2003
  ** Added 2 more chapters. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/OpenOffice[OpenOffice] format with
     revisions.
* 0.60
  ** 21 Nov 2003
  ** Fully rewritten and expanded.
* 0.20
  ** 20 Nov 2003
  ** Corrected some typos and errors.
* 0.15
  ** 20 Nov 2003
  ** Converted to https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook[DocBook XML] with XEmacs.
* 0.10
  ** 14 Nov 2003
  ** Initial draft using https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kword[KWord].