This directory contains a number of Python programs that are useful
while building or extending Python.
audiopy Audiopy is a program to control the Solaris audio
device, allowing you to choose both the input and
output devices, and to set the output volume, that can
be run either as a command-line script, or as a
Tkinter application.
bgen Generate complete extension modules from a
description. Still under development!
WARNING: bgen has been removed in 3.0.
compiler Tools used to maintain the compiler package in the
standard library.
faqwiz FAQ Wizard.
See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw.py
for a live example.
freeze Create a stand-alone executable from a Python program.
gdb Python code to be run inside gdb, to make it easier to
debug Python itself (by David Malcolm).
i18n Tools for internationalization. pygettext.py
parses Python source code and generates .pot files,
and msgfmt.py generates a binary message catalog
from a catalog in text format.
pynche A Tkinter-based color editor.
scripts A number of useful single-file programs, e.g. tabnanny.py
by Tim Peters, which checks for inconsistent mixing of
tabs and spaces, and 2to3, which converts Python 2 code
to Python 3 code.
unicode Tools used to generate unicode database files for
Python 2.0 (by Fredrik Lundh).
versioncheck A tool to automate checking whether you have the latest
version of a package (by Jack Jansen).
webchecker A link checker for web sites.
world Script to take a list of Internet addresses and print
out where in the world those addresses originate from,
based on the top-level domain country code found in
the address.
A generic benchmark suite is maintained separately at https://github.com/python/performance
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