Python

General sites

• comp.lang.python newsgroup
• O'Reilly store: Python
• ONLamp: Python DevCenter
• Planet Python
• Python.org: official homepage
• Python documentation
• mail.python.org mailing list
• Python Brasil
• Python.it
• Python Eggs
• Python Papers: e-zine
• pygame
• PyZine

Tutorials

• Dive into Python
• How to Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python
• Learning Python
• Python challenge
• Python tutorial (Guido van Rossum)
• Python tutorials (Awaretek)
• Python wiki
• Tutorial de Python 'Python para todos' (SP)
• Tutorialized

Scripts and tools

• ActiveState: industry standard Python distribution
• Hotscripts: Python
• Python Desktop Server

Forums and resources

• Python programmers meetup

Development tools

• ActiveState Programmer Network
• Eric / Eric4 Python IDE
• PyInstaller
• pysta python GUI (Codeplex)
• Stani's Python Editor
• Wing IDE (free version available)

Components and tools

• ADOdb Database Abstraction Library for PHP (and Python)
• HAP Python Remote Debugger
• LDAP client API for Python
• Metakit for Python
• Mod_python: Apache/Python integration
• MySQL for Python
• PyGTK
• Python Imaging Library
• Python-LDAP
• PyUnit
• wxPython
• XML Package for Python

Python hosting

• A2Hosting
• Auriance
• Siteground
• WebFaction
• Westhost

Other

• Django: framework
• IronPython is an implementation of the Python programming language running on .NET.
• Jython: Python written in Java
• Other open source projects: desktop applications
  
  • feeds2imap
  • Freshmeat: list
  • eyeD3
  • Mobius Forensic Toolkit
  • PyKaraoke
  • Pynagram: anagram creator
  • PySolitaire
  • Python MP3 cutter
  • Python Sudoku
• Other open source projects: development
  • ActivePython is the industry-standard Python distribution, available for Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris, AIX, and HP-UX. It is 100% compatible with the reference distribution of Python. Code tested with ActivePython will run on any Python installation that has the appropriate extensions installed.
  • Aspyct is a Python module that implements AOP (aspect oriented programming). A wide panel of join points is already available, controlling execution, arguments, print, etc. You may also define your own. It is possible to define simple advice (functions) as well as aspect classes.
  • bitstring is a Python module that helps to make the creation and analysis of binary data as simple and natural as possible. BitString objects can be constructed from integers (big and little endian), floats, hex, octal, binary, byte data, or files. They can be sliced, joined, reversed, inserted into, overwritten, etc. with simple functions or slice notation. They can also be parsed, searched, and navigated in, similar to a file or stream. Internally the data is efficiently stored as byte arrays. The latest versions are available for Python 2.6 and Python 3 (earlier versions also supported Python 2.4 and 2.5).
  • blipapi is a set of libraries in Python and PHP for accessing the blip.pl microblogging service.
  • boodebr is a collection of Python modules from boodebr.org. boodebr.ion provides JSON and XML serialization with a common API (internal and external). boodebr.config provides flexible configuration file handling (similar to INI files, but using JSON/XML with full object pickling).
  • Camelot is a Python GUI framework for building desktop applications very quickly, simply by adding some additional information to your model definition. Camelot is built on top of Sqlalchemy and PyQt, and is inspired by the Django admin interface. The framework includes custom field types and editors for images, email addresses, rich text, and more.
  • cx_Freeze is a set of utilities for freezing Python scripts into executables in a cross platform way, using many of the techniques found in Thomas Heller's py2exe, Gordon McMillan's Installer, and the Freeze utility that ships with Python itself.
  • cx_Oracle is a Python extension module that allows access to Oracle, and conforms to the Python database API specifications.
  • Edile is intended to be a basic but useful text editor for system administration and scripting purposes. It requires Python and PyGTK, and if you have GTKSourceView, it will use that. It has been tested on XP and Ubuntu.
  • Eric5 is a Python IDE with integrated project management capabilities, an unlimited number of editors, an integrated Python shell, an integrated debugger, integrated interfaces to Mercurial and Subversion, integrated unit testing, and much more. It is extensible via an integrated plug-in system. It is the Python 3 variant of the well known eric4 development environment.
  • Exim-Python
  • Extended Python Debugger is a more complete debugger for Python than the stock pdb.py debugger. It supports, among numerous other things, debugging threads, non-interactive POSIX-like line tracing, command options, disassembly of instructions, and stack traces that give better information for exec statements. Stepping/nexting by default skips over method/function "defs". It tries to follow gdb's command set unless there is good reason not to.
  • eyeD3 is a Python program and module that provides the ability to read and write ID3 tags (v1.x and v2.3/v2.4). It also decodes MP3 headers (bit rate, sample frequency, play time, etc.).
  • GmtPy provides seamless integration of GMT plotting into Python programs. On top of that, it provides (in an opt-in fashion): autoscaling, automatic tick increment determination, layout management, and more.
  • gnome-python
  • Hypy is a full-text search interface for Python applications. It can be used to index and search your documents from Python code.
  • IMDbPY is a Python package useful to retrieve and manage the data of the IMDb movie database about movies, people, characters, and companies. It can retrieve data from both the IMDb's Web server and a local copy of the whole database. The IMDbPY package can be very easily used by programmers and developers to provide access to the IMDb's data to their programs. Some simple example scripts are included in the package.
  • Instant is a Python module that allows for instant inlining of C and C++ code in Python. It is a small Python module built on top of SWIG.
  • IPy is a Python class and tools for handling IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and networks. The IP class provides comfortable parsing and handling for most notations in use for IPv4 and IPv6 addresses and networks. It was greatly inspired by the interface of the RIPE Perl module NET::IP, but it doesn't share the implementation. It doesn't share non-CIDR netmasks, so funky stuff like a netmask of 0xffffff0f can't be done here.
  • itools is a collection of Python libraries which provides a wide range of capabilities, including an abstraction over directory and file resources, a search engine, type marshallers, datatype schemas, i18n support, URI handlers, a Web programming interface, a workflow interface, and support for data formats such as (X)HTML, XML, iCalendar, RSS 2.0, and XLIFF.
  • jHepWork is a full-featured multi-platform data analysis framework for scientists, engineers, and students. All numerical and graphical libraries written in Java are fully integrated with Jython. jHepWork comes with a powerful Python/Jython friendly IDE with a code assist.
  • LEPL is a recursive descent parser library written in Python. It is based on parser combinator libraries popular in functional programming, but also exploits Python language features. Operators provide a friendly syntax, and the consistent use of generators supports full backtracking and resource management. Backtracking implies that a wide variety of grammars are supported; appropriate memoisation ensures that even left-recursive grammars terminate.
  • LightBlue is a cross-platform Python Bluetooth API for Mac OS X, GNU/Linux, and Python For Series 60. It provides easy programmatic access to device and service discovery, RFCOMM sockets, L2CAP client sockets, sending and receiving files over OBEX, service advertising, and local device information.
  • listparser is a Python library that parses subscription lists (also called reading lists) and returns all of the feeds, subscription lists, and "opportunity" URLs that it finds. It supports OPML, RDF+FOAF, and the iGoogle exported settings format.
  • Localizer is a Zope product that provides a set of facilities to develop multilingual Web applications. It offers solutions to internationalize user interfaces and manage multilingual content.
  • Mother is a Python module that hides SQL syntax and gives you a set of intelligent classes and methods that can self-adapt and understand various situations. It could be considered as an Object Relational Mapper with strong introspection. In fact, configuration files, tables, fields, and keys declarations are not needed.
  • Mpmath is a pure-Python library for arbitrary-precision floating-point arithmetic. It implements the standard functions from Python's math and cmath modules (exp, log, sin, etc.), plus a few nonelementary special functions (gamma, zeta, etc.), and has utilities for arbitrary-precision numerical differentiation, integration, root-finding, and interval arithmetic. It supports unlimited exponent sizes, has full support for complex numbers, and offers better performance than Python's standard decimal library. Mpmath is lightweight and easy to install or include in other software due to being written entirely in Python with no additional dependencies.
  • Multilinux is a Django-based skeleton of a system for creating Internet and intranet sites. It includes a forum, a board, messages, user profiles, and a comment system.
  • Myro2 is a Python interface for robots developed by the Institute for Person Robots in Education for introducing computing.
  • MySQL Connector/Python implements the MySQL client/server protocol in pure Python. There is no need to compile or install any library or MySQL software. Work is underway to make it work under Python 3.1.
  • OOoPy is a Python library for modifying OpenOffice.org documents. It provides a set of transformations on the OOo XML format using the ElementTree XML Library. Transformations included are a mail merge application and the concatenation of documents with formatting intact. The framework supports easy creation of new transformations.
  • ovpn-py is a plugin embedding Python into OpenVPN using the V1 API. It is a bridge allowing developers to write OpenVPN plugins in Python.
  • phew is a simple Python framework for creating Web applications. It is built to be small and simple to use and provide commonly used functionality such as authentication, access control, and graphing in the framework.
  • PyCAM generates toolpaths (GCode) for CNC machines out of STL model files. The output of PyCAM can be imported into EMC2 or other machine controllers to direct the milling machine. PyCAM features different path generation strategies, cutter shapes, and postprocessing options.
  • Python Development Environment (Python IDE plugin for Eclipse). Features editor, code completion, refactoring, outline view, debugger, and other goodies.
  • Pyfig is a very small and simple configuration file parser. It is written in less than 100 lines, with support for comments and different config formats
  • PyICU is a Python extension wrapping IBM's International Components for Unicode C++ library (ICU).
  • Pyjamas is a Python-to-Javascript compiler and an AJAX widget set for Web application development (its sister project is pyjamas-desktop). It is a port of Google's Web Toolkit to Python.
  • PyLucene is a Python extension for accessing Java Lucene from Python. Its goal is to allow use of Lucene's text indexing and searching capabilities from Python. It is designed to be API compatible with the latest version of Java Lucene.
  • The Python Mixture Package (PyMix) is a freely available Python library implementing algorithms and data structures for a wide variety of data mining applications with basic and extended mixture models.
  • PyMultimethods is a library that enables users to create multimethods in Python. In other words, you can create multiple versions of the same function/method. The one that is invoked depends on the runtime parameters. This is similar to polymorphism in the sense that the object type determines which version of the function is invoked. Multimethods go beyond the polymorphism found in conventional object oriented languages, however, because all parameters are taken into account (as opposed to only the "implied this", as in C++ or Java). PyMultimethods can also be used to "overload" a function or method.
  • PyPE (Python Programmers Editor) is a lightweight but powerful editor. Tools for the new and seasoned user alike are included out of the box, including syntax coloring, multiple open documents with tabs, per-document browsable source trees, and many others.
  • PyQt is a comprehensive set of Python bindings for the Qt GUI toolkit.
  • Pyro: Powerful but easy to use Distributed Object Middleware for Python
  • py-setproctitle is a library that allows a Python process to change its title, as displayed by system tools such as ps and top. Changing the title is useful in multi-process systems, for example when a master process is forked: changing the child's title allows you to identify the task each process is busy with. It is based on PostgreSQL's multi-platform implementation.
  • Python Audio Tools
  • Python bsddb3 is a Python module that provides a nearly complete wrapping of the Oracle/Sleepycat C API for the database environment, database, cursor, and transaction objects, and each of these is exposed as a Python type in the bsddb3.db module. The database objects can use various access methods: btree, hash, recno, and queue. The goal is to mirror most of the real BerkeleyDB API.
  • Python call Graph: pycallgraph is a Python library that creates call graphs for Python programs.
  • python-chrono is a Python module for simple and convenient date/time handling, including parsing, arithmetic, comparison, formatting, and calendar functionality.
  • python-colormath is a Python module which abstracts common color math operations. (For example, converting from CIE L*a*b to XYZ, or from RGB to CMYK.) Other operations, such as calculating ANSI and ISO density from spectral data or taking the delta E of two colors, are also covered.
  • Python-crack
  • Python Google Chart is a complete wrapper for the Google Chart API.
  • Python-GPSBabel is a Python wrapper around GPSBabel. It is a complete interface for Python, allowing easy mechanisms for the developer to control GPSBabel from within a Python application.
  • The Python IRC library is intended to encapsulate the IRC protocol at a quite low level. It provides an event-driven IRC client framework. It has a fairly thorough support for the basic IRC protocol, CTCP, and DCC connections.
  • python-ldap provides an object-oriented API to access LDAP directory servers from Python programs. Mainly, it wraps the OpenLDAP 2.3+ libs for that purpose. Additionally, the package contains modules for other LDAP-related stuff (such as processing LDIF, LDAPURLs, and LDAPv3 schema).
  • python-musicbrainz2
  • python-nmap is a Python library which helps in using the nmap port scanner. It allows users to easily manipulate nmap scan results and automate scanning tasks and reports. It supports nmap script outputs.
  • pythonOCC is a 3D CAD/PLM development library. It's built upon the OpenCASCADE 3D modeling kernel and the SalomeGEOM package. Some high level packages (for parametric modeling, topology, data exchange, Web services, etc.) extend the builtin features of those libraries to enable a highly dynamic and modular programming of your CAD applications, thanks to the magic of Python.
  • python-ptrace is a debugger using ptrace written in Python. It's able to control multiple processes, read/write bytes, perform breakpoint and step by step execution, use a disassembler, syscall tracer, and parser, explain why a signal is raised, dump registers, stack, and memory mappings, etc.
  • Python rope
  • Python-SIP
  • PySCGI is a 100% Python module implementing the SCGI protocol. It can be used to write Python-based application servers.
  • pysync
  • PyUseCase is an unconventional GUI testing tool for PyGTK. Instead of recording GUI mechanics directly, it asks the user for descriptive names and hence builds up a "domain language" along with a "UI map file" that translates it into the current GUI layout. The point is to reduce coupling, allow very expressive tests, and ensure that GUI changes mean changing the UI map file but not all the tests. Instead of an "assertion" mechanism, it auto-generates a log of the GUI appearance and changes to it. The point is then to use that as a baseline for text-based testing, using e.g. TextTest. It also includes support for instrumenting code so that "waits" can be recorded, making it far easier for a tester to record correctly synchronized tests without having to explicitly plan for this.
  • PyUt - UML tool
  • rmtoo is a requirement management tool. It is intended for programmers, as it has no GUI. Requirements are stored in plain text files. The tools allow such things as checking dependencies, creating LaTeX output, and a prioritization list for backlog and requirement elaboration.
  • Ropeide is a Python refactoring IDE that uses the rope library to provide features like refactoring and code assistance. It uses the Tkinter library.
  • SIP is a tool to generate C++ interface code for Python. It is similar to SWIG, but uses a different interface format. It was used to build PyQt and PyKDE, and has support for the Qt signal/slot mechanism.
  • SQLAlchemy is a SQL toolkit and object relational mapper for Python. It encourages "relational mapping" as opposed to "table mapping" and includes enterprise-level features such as eager loading, unit-of-work object commits, topological dependency sorting, and full usage of bind parameters. It supports MySQL, Postgres, Oracle, and SQLite.
  • SQLObject is an object-relational mapper, i.e., a library that will wrap your database tables in Python classes, and your rows in Python instances. It currently supports MySQL through the 'MySQLdb' package, PostgreSQL through the 'psycopg' package, SQLite, Firebird, MaxDB (SAP DB), MS SQL, and Sybase. It should support Python versions back to 2.2.
  • Stani's Python Editor
  • Sydebar is a browser sidebar generator for Python documentation pages. It can generate Python documentation sidebars for all Python versions. The documentation pages can be either local or on a remote Web server.
  • upoints is a collection of Python modules for working with points on Earth or other nearly spherical objects. It allows you to calculate the distance and bearings between points, mangle xearth/xplanet data files, and work with online UK trigpoint databases, NOAA's weather station database, and other such location databases.
  • Tracer is a package for ray-tracing in Python. Its main application area is solar energy, and the architecture focuses on extensibility and programmability, so it can be used as a part of other programs. For example, it could be used for optimization algorithms or annual performance simulations.
  • Urwid is a Python library for making text console applications. It has many features including fluid interface resizing, support for UTF-8 and CJK encodings, standard and custom text layout modes, simple markup for setting text attributes, and a powerful, dynamic list box that handles a mix of widget types. It is flexible, modular, and leaves the developer in control.
  • web2py is a Python full-stack enterprise Web framework for the agile development of fast, secure, and portable database-driven Web-based applications. It is compatible with the Google App Engine.
  • Webware for Python is a suite of Python packages and tools for developing object-oriented, Web-based applications. The suite uses well known design patterns and includes a fast Application Server, Servlets, Python Server Pages (PSP), Object-Relational Mapping, Task Scheduling, Session Management, and many other features. Webware is very modular and easily extended. It is well proven and platform-independent. It is compatible with multiple Web servers, database servers, and operating systems.
  • Winpdb is a platform-independent Python debugger with support for multiple threads, namespace modification, embedded debugging, and encrypted communication. It is up to 20 times faster than pdb.
  • xmpppy
  • xRope is an IDE for Python development and a graphical GUI builder that is similar to Visual Basic.
  • Yeanpypa is (yet another) framework to create recursive-descent parsers in Python. It is heavily inspired by frameworks like pyparsing or boost::Spirit. Parsers are created by writing an EBNF-like grammar as Python expressions.
• Zie ook:
• Tools for serverside programming
• Databases: MySQL
• Free web applications