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TAUTHON(1)		    General Commands Manual		    TAUTHON(1)

NAME
       tauthon - an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented programming lan-
       guage

SYNOPSIS
       tauthon [ -B ] [	-d ] [ -E ] [ -h ] [ -i	] [ -m module-name ]
	      [	 -O ] [	-OO ] [	-R ] [ -Q argument ] [ -s ] [ -S ] [ -t	] [ -u
       ]
	      [	-v ] [ -V ] [ -W argument ] [ -x ] [ -3	] [ -?	]
	      [	-c command | script | -	] [ arguments ]

DESCRIPTION
       Tauthon is an  interpreted,  interactive,  object-oriented  programming
       language	that combines remarkable power with very clear syntax.	For an
       introduction  to	programming in Tauthon,	see the	Tauthon	Tutorial.  The
       Tauthon Library Reference documents built-in and	standard  types,  con-
       stants,	functions  and modules.	 Finally, the Tauthon Reference	Manual
       describes the syntax and	semantics of the  core	language  in  (perhaps
       too) much detail.  (These documents may be located via the INTERNET RE-
       SOURCES below; they may be installed on your system as well.)

       Tauthon's  basic	power can be extended with your	own modules written in
       C or C++.  On most systems such	modules	 may  be  dynamically  loaded.
       Tauthon	is also	adaptable as an	extension language for existing	appli-
       cations.	 See the internal documentation	for hints.

       Documentation for installed Tauthon modules and packages	can be	viewed
       by running the pydoc program.

COMMAND	LINE OPTIONS
       -B     Don't  write  .py[co] files on import. See also PYTHONDONTWRITE-
	      BYTECODE.

       -c command
	      Specify the command to execute (see next section).  This	termi-
	      nates the	option list (following options are passed as arguments
	      to the command).

       -d     Turn  on parser debugging	output (for wizards only, depending on
	      compilation options).

       -E     Ignore environment variables like	PYTHONPATH and PYTHONHOME that
	      modify the behavior of the interpreter.

       -h ,  -?	,  --help
	      Prints the usage for the interpreter executable and exits.

       -i     When a script is passed as first argument	or the	-c  option  is
	      used,  enter  interactive	mode after executing the script	or the
	      command.	It does	not read the $PYTHONSTARTUP file.  This	can be
	      useful to	inspect	global variables  or  a	 stack	trace  when  a
	      script raises an exception.

       -m module-name
	      Searches	sys.path for the named module and runs the correspond-
	      ing .py file as a	script.

       -O     Turn on basic optimizations.  This changes the  filename	exten-
	      sion  for	 compiled  (bytecode)  files from .pyc to .pyo.	 Given
	      twice, causes docstrings to be discarded.

       -OO    Discard docstrings in addition to	the -O optimizations.

       -R     Turn on "hash randomization", so that the	hash() values of  str,
	      bytes  and  datetime  objects are	"salted" with an unpredictable
	      pseudo-random value.  Although they remain  constant  within  an
	      individual Tauthon process, they are not predictable between re-
	      peated invocations of Python.

	      This  is intended	to provide protection against a	denial of ser-
	      vice caused by carefully-chosen inputs that  exploit  the	 worst
	      case performance of a dict construction, O(n^2) complexity.  See
	      http://www.ocert.org/advisories/ocert-2011-003.html for details.

       -Q argument
	      Division	control;  see  PEP  238.   The argument	must be	one of
	      "old" (the default, int/int  and	long/long  return  an  int  or
	      long), "new" (new	division semantics, i.e. int/int and long/long
	      returns  a float), "warn"	(old division semantics	with a warning
	      for int/int and long/long), or "warnall" (old division semantics
	      with a warning for all use of the	division operator).  For a use
	      of "warnall", see	the Tools/scripts/fixdiv.py script.

       -s     Don't add	user site directory to sys.path.

       -S     Disable the import of the	module site and	the site-dependent ma-
	      nipulations of sys.path that it entails.

       -t     Issue a warning when a source file mixes tabs and	spaces for in-
	      dentation	in a way that makes it depend on the worth  of	a  tab
	      expressed	 in  spaces.   Issue an	error when the option is given
	      twice.

       -u     Force stdin, stdout and stderr to	 be  totally  unbuffered.   On
	      systems  where  it matters, also put stdin, stdout and stderr in
	      binary mode.  Note that there is internal	 buffering  in	xread-
	      lines(),	readlines()  and  file-object  iterators ("for line in
	      sys.stdin") which	is not influenced by  this  option.   To  work
	      around  this, you	will want to use "sys.stdin.readline()"	inside
	      a	"while 1:" loop.

       -v     Print a message each time	a module is initialized,  showing  the
	      place  (filename	or  built-in  module) from which it is loaded.
	      When given twice,	print a	message	for each file that is  checked
	      for  when	 searching for a module.  Also provides	information on
	      module cleanup at	exit.

       -V ,  --version
	      Prints the Tauthon version number	of the executable and exits.

       -W argument
	      Warning control.	Tauthon	sometimes prints  warning  message  to
	      sys.stderr.   A  typical warning message has the following form:
	      file:line: category:  message.   By  default,  each  warning  is
	      printed  once for	each source line where it occurs.  This	option
	      controls how often warnings are printed.	 Multiple  -W  options
	      may  be  given; when a warning matches more than one option, the
	      action for the last matching option is  performed.   Invalid  -W
	      options  are ignored (a warning message is printed about invalid
	      options when the first warning is	issued).  Warnings can also be
	      controlled from within a Tauthon program using the warnings mod-
	      ule.

	      The simplest form	of argument is one  of	the  following	action
	      strings  (or  a unique abbreviation): ignore to ignore all warn-
	      ings; default to explicitly request the default behavior (print-
	      ing each warning once per	source line); all to print  a  warning
	      each  time it occurs (this may generate many messages if a warn-
	      ing is triggered repeatedly for the same source  line,  such  as
	      inside a loop); module to	print each warning only	the first time
	      it  occurs  in  each module; once	to print each warning only the
	      first time it occurs in the program; or error to raise an	excep-
	      tion instead of printing a warning message.

	      The  full	 form  of  argument  is	  action:message:category:mod-
	      ule:line.	  Here,	 action	is as explained	above but only applies
	      to messages that match the remaining fields.  Empty fields match
	      all values; trailing empty fields	may be omitted.	  The  message
	      field  matches  the  start  of the warning message printed; this
	      match is case-insensitive.  The category field matches the warn-
	      ing category.  This must be a class name;	the match test whether
	      the actual warning category of the message is a subclass of  the
	      specified	 warning category.  The	full class name	must be	given.
	      The module field matches the (fully-qualified) module name; this
	      match is case-sensitive.	The line field matches the  line  num-
	      ber,  where zero matches all line	numbers	and is thus equivalent
	      to an omitted line number.

       -x     Skip the first line of the source.  This is intended for	a  DOS
	      specific hack only.  Warning: the	line numbers in	error messages
	      will be off by one!

       -3     Warn  about  Python 3.x incompatibilities	that 2to3 cannot triv-
	      ially fix.

INTERPRETER INTERFACE
       The interpreter interface resembles that	of the UNIX shell: when	called
       with standard input connected to	a tty device, it prompts for  commands
       and  executes  them  until an EOF is read; when called with a file name
       argument	or with	a file as standard input,  it  reads  and  executes  a
       script  from  that  file;  when called with -c command, it executes the
       Tauthon statement(s) given as command.  Here command may	contain	multi-
       ple statements separated	by newlines.  Leading whitespace  is  signifi-
       cant  in	Tauthon	statements!  In	non-interactive	mode, the entire input
       is parsed before	it is executed.

       If available, the script	name and additional arguments  thereafter  are
       passed  to the script in	the Tauthon variable sys.argv, which is	a list
       of strings (you must first import sys to	be able	to access it).	If  no
       script  name  is	 given,	sys.argv[0] is an empty	string;	if -c is used,
       sys.argv[0] contains the	string '-c'.  Note that	options	interpreted by
       the Tauthon interpreter itself are not placed in	sys.argv.

       In interactive mode, the	primary	prompt is  `>>>';  the	second	prompt
       (which  appears	when a command is not complete)	is `...'.  The prompts
       can be changed by assignment to sys.ps1 or  sys.ps2.   The  interpreter
       quits  when  it	reads an EOF at	a prompt.  When	an unhandled exception
       occurs, a stack trace is	printed	and control  returns  to  the  primary
       prompt;	in  non-interactive mode, the interpreter exits	after printing
       the stack trace.	 The interrupt signal raises the KeyboardInterrupt ex-
       ception;	other UNIX signals are not  caught  (except  that  SIGPIPE  is
       sometimes  ignored, in favor of the IOError exception).	Error messages
       are written to stderr.

FILES AND DIRECTORIES
       These are subject to difference depending on local installation conven-
       tions; ${prefix}	 and  ${exec_prefix}  are  installation-dependent  and
       should  be  interpreted as for GNU software; they may be	the same.  The
       default for both	is /usr/local.

       ${exec_prefix}/bin/tauthon
	      Recommended location of the interpreter.

       ${prefix}/lib/tauthon<version>
       ${exec_prefix}/lib/tauthon<version>
	      Recommended locations of the directories containing the standard
	      modules.

       ${prefix}/include/tauthon<version>
       ${exec_prefix}/include/tauthon<version>
	      Recommended locations of the directories containing the  include
	      files needed for developing Tauthon extensions and embedding the
	      interpreter.

       ~/.pythonrc.py
	      User-specific initialization file	loaded by the user module; not
	      used by default or by most applications.

ENVIRONMENT VARIABLES
       PYTHONHOME
	      Change  the  location of the standard Tauthon libraries.	By de-
	      fault, the libraries are searched	in  ${prefix}/lib/tauthon<ver-
	      sion>  and  ${exec_prefix}/lib/tauthon<version>, where ${prefix}
	      and ${exec_prefix} are installation-dependent directories,  both
	      defaulting  to  /usr/local.  When	$PYTHONHOME is set to a	single
	      directory, its value replaces both ${prefix} and ${exec_prefix}.
	      To specify different values for these, set $PYTHONHOME to	${pre-
	      fix}:${exec_prefix}.

       PYTHONPATH
	      Augments the default search path for module files.   The	format
	      is  the  same  as	the shell's $PATH: one or more directory path-
	      names  separated	by  colons.   Non-existent   directories   are
	      silently	ignored.   The default search path is installation de-
	      pendent, but generally  begins  with  ${prefix}/lib/tauthon<ver-
	      sion> (see PYTHONHOME above).  The default search	path is	always
	      appended to $PYTHONPATH.	If a script argument is	given, the di-
	      rectory  containing  the script is inserted in the path in front
	      of $PYTHONPATH.  The search path can be manipulated from	within
	      a	Tauthon	program	as the variable	sys.path.

       PYTHONSTARTUP
	      If  this is the name of a	readable file, the Tauthon commands in
	      that file	are executed before the	first prompt is	 displayed  in
	      interactive  mode.   The file is executed	in the same name space
	      where interactive	commands are executed so that objects  defined
	      or  imported  in it can be used without qualification in the in-
	      teractive	session.  You can also change the prompts sys.ps1  and
	      sys.ps2 in this file.

       PYTHONY2K
	      Set  this	 to a non-empty	string to cause	the time module	to re-
	      quire dates specified as strings to include 4-digit years,  oth-
	      erwise  2-digit  years are converted based on rules described in
	      the time module documentation.

       PYTHONOPTIMIZE
	      If this is set to	a non-empty string it is equivalent to	speci-
	      fying  the  -O option. If	set to an integer, it is equivalent to
	      specifying -O multiple times.

       PYTHONDEBUG
	      If this is set to	a non-empty string it is equivalent to	speci-
	      fying  the  -d option. If	set to an integer, it is equivalent to
	      specifying -d multiple times.

       PYTHONDONTWRITEBYTECODE
	      If this is set to	a non-empty string it is equivalent to	speci-
	      fying the	-B option (don't try to	write .py[co] files).

       PYTHONINSPECT
	      If  this is set to a non-empty string it is equivalent to	speci-
	      fying the	-i option.

       PYTHONIOENCODING
	      If this is set before running the	interpreter, it	overrides  the
	      encoding	used  for stdin/stdout/stderr, in the syntax encoding-
	      name:errorhandler	The errorhandler part is optional and has  the
	      same meaning as in str.encode. For stderr, the errorhandler
	       part is ignored;	the handler will always	be 'backslashreplace'.

       PYTHONNOUSERSITE
	      If  this is set to a non-empty string it is equivalent to	speci-
	      fying the	-s option  (Don't  add	the  user  site	 directory  to
	      sys.path).

       PYTHONUNBUFFERED
	      If  this is set to a non-empty string it is equivalent to	speci-
	      fying the	-u option.

       PYTHONVERBOSE
	      If this is set to	a non-empty string it is equivalent to	speci-
	      fying  the  -v option. If	set to an integer, it is equivalent to
	      specifying -v multiple times.

       PYTHONWARNINGS
	      If this is set to	a comma-separated string it is	equivalent  to
	      specifying the -W	option for each	separate value.

       PYTHONHASHSEED
	      If  this	variable is set	to "random", the effect	is the same as
	      specifying the -R	option:	a random value is  used	 to  seed  the
	      hashes of	str, bytes and datetime	objects.

	      If  PYTHONHASHSEED  is  set to an	integer	value, it is used as a
	      fixed seed for generating	the hash() of the types	covered	by the
	      hash randomization.  Its purpose is to allow repeatable hashing,
	      such as for selftests for	the interpreter	itself,	or to allow  a
	      cluster of tauthon processes to share hash values.

	      The   integer   must   be	  a   decimal	number	in  the	 range
	      [0,4294967295].  Specifying the value 0 will lead	 to  the  same
	      hash values as when hash randomization is	disabled.

AUTHOR
       The Python Software Foundation: https://www.python.org/psf/

INTERNET RESOURCES
       Main website:  https://github.com/naftaliharris/tauthon/
       Original	website:  https://www.python.org/
       Documentation:  https://docs.python.org/2/
       Developer resources:  https://docs.python.org/devguide/
       Module repository:  https://pypi.python.org/
       Newsgroups:  comp.lang.python, comp.lang.python.announce

LICENSING
       Tauthon is distributed under an Open Source license.  See the file "LI-
       CENSE"  in  the	Tauthon	source distribution for	information on terms &
       conditions for accessing	and otherwise using Tauthon  and  for  a  DIS-
       CLAIMER OF ALL WARRANTIES.

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