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##          This is the Python VCL Generator project        ##
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AUTHORS:
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Dr. Dietmar Budelsky
    budelsky@ibs.bm.uunet.de
    IBS Schillings GmbH & Co KG
    Ein Unternehmen der KROHNE-Gruppe
    Heisenbergstr. 18
    50169 Kerpen-Türnich
    Phone: (49)22 37/97 44-0

Morgan Martinet
    23 rue du 14 juillet
    94270 le Kremlin-Bicetre
    Phone (Work): 01 47 25 70 77
    e-mail: morgan.martinet@altavista.net
            mmm@mcom.fr
            mmm@free.fr
            marat@multimania.com

This project is the result of the merging of their two separate projects.

PURPOSE:
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  Provide an interface to the Python language in Delphi.

COPYRIGHT:
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  This source code is distributed with no WARRANTY, for no reason or use.
  Everyone is allowed to use and change this code free for his own tasks
  and projects, as long as this header and its copyright text is intact.
  For changed versions of this code, which are public distributed the
  following additional conditions have to be fullfilled:
  1) The header has to contain a comment on the change and the author of it.
  2) A copy of the changed source has to be sent to one of the above E-Mail
     addresses or our then valid address, if this is possible to the
     author.
  The second condition has the target to maintain an up to date central
  version of the components. If this condition is not acceptable for
  confidential or legal reasons, everyone is free to derive components
  or to generate a diff file to our or other original sources.

FILES:
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  Readme.txt                   This file.
  To do.txt                    A to do list.
  Components\Python.*          The "Python for Delphi" package for Delphi 3.
  Components\Sources\Vcl       The source folder of the experimental VCL use
                               inside Python.
  Lib                          Library of Python modules.
  PyDelphi                     A Python developpment environment
                               written in Delphi.
  VCL Generator                An application that generates Delphi and Python
                               source code in order to embed Delphi components into
                               Python. This is still experimental.

INSTALLATION:
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  For Delphi 3, install the "Python_d3" package located in the Components folder
  and add the folder "...\Components\Sources\VCL\D3" to the Delphi path.

  For Delphi 4, install the "Python_d4" package located in the Components folder
  and add the folder "...\Components\Sources\VCL\D4" to the Delphi path.

  For Delphi 5, install the "Python_d5" package located in the Components folder
  and add the folder "...\Components\Sources\VCL\D4" to the Delphi path.


NOTE:
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  For the VCL project, look at the file ReadMe.txt in the "VCL generator" folder.


UPDATE:
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  You'll find the latest version at http://www.multimania.com/marat

DISTRIBUTION:
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  You are free to distribute your applications built with Python for Delphi,
  but don't forget to install the python15.dll in the window\system folder of
  your client, or install the Python for windows distribution (it needs more
  space on the harddisk, but it's better because there are all Python modules
  and the help).