# Revision History

- 2.0
    - 20 Oct 2012
    - Rewritten in [Pandoc format](http://johnmacfarlane.net/pandoc/README.html), 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 [MediaWiki](http://www.mediawiki.org) (again) 
- 1.20 
    - 13 Jan 2005
    - Complete rewrite using [Quanta+](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quanta_Plus) on [Fedora](http://fedoraproject.org/) 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. [OpenOffice](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/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 [DocBook XML](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DocBook) with XEmacs. 
- 0.10 
    - 14 Nov 2003
    - Initial draft using [KWord](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kword).