python-tutorials/21-revision-history.md

Revision History

• 2.0
  • 20 Oct 2012
  • Rewritten in 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 MediaWiki (again)
• 1.20
  • 13 Jan 2005
  • Complete rewrite using Quanta+ on 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. 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 with XEmacs.
• 0.10
  • 14 Nov 2003
  • Initial draft using KWord.