wWhat are the best programs in your opinion, written entirly
in pyhton, divided into categories like:
a) Games
b) Utilities/System
c) Office
d) Web/Newsreader/Mail/Browser
...
I don't want to start a long thread, if a site of such
an discussion already exists, a link will be enough.
Many thanks in advance!
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Franz Steinhaeusler
> wWhat are the best programs in your opinion, written entirly
> in pyhton, divided into categories like:
> a) Games
> b) Utilities/System
> c) Office
> d) Web/Newsreader/Mail/Browser
Its a difficult question to answer as the software are aplenty and there is no
judgement basis as this one is the best.
Head on to www.python.org and see for yourself for programs under each
category.
And moreover, "written entirely in python" is a constrain to find the
programs. Why do you need such a list for?
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O.R.Senthil Kumaran
http://uthcode.sarovar.org
For b; trac: http://trac.edgewall.org/ There actually isn't that many
widespread programs written in Python.
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mvh Björn
Of course this is totally objective, but that dosnt mean its not a valid
question.
If you were starting out a project were thinking of writing it in
python, you might want to look at whats out there - maybe python has
limitations which stops it being a good choice in some situations (for
instance?)- on the other hand you might want to see some shining
examples that prove the capabilities of python ;)
'Being written entirely in python' - is a bit tricky, often these
applications rely on some specific extension or make heavy use of a
backend that dosnt come with python (like pygame, pygtk, or py-gstreamer).
Games - See Pygame http://www.pygame.org/projects/6
Utilities/System
* meld is a really nice diffing tool for linux - http://meld.sourceforge.net
* ubuntu have some of their install tools in python.
* txt2tags - a great markup language for doc writing. -
http://txt2tags.sourceforge.net/
* sound recording/editing - http://www.jokosher.org
Office?? - no idea, openoffice can be scripted in python.
Web - * isnt bit torrent python?, probably lots of stuff but I dont know
of them ;)
>Hello NG,
>
>wWhat are the best programs in your opinion, written entirly
>in pyhton, divided into categories like:
Many thanks,
The restriction, I want, is to comply the programs written in pygame,
pygtk, wxPython, tkinter or console programs.
There are really "high sophisticated" programs, if you don't mind my
naming it so, as:
XPN newsreader, Boa Constructor, many pygame programs,
gtkrawgallery, cornice graphics viewer, ...
I'm only interested to have a list, or even help to
extend an existing one.
On wxPython, there also exist such a list:
http://wiki.wxpython.org/wxPythonPit_Apps
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Franz Steinhaeusler
> I see. It is interesting (and not surprisingly) that recursion or
> yield are required. Thanks for everyone's help.
Why not use both recursion and generators?
def f2(n):
if n > 0:
n2, x = divmod(n, 26)
yield x
for next in f2(n2):
yield next
Could this be considered functional?
Anyway, I wonder if there is a more elegant way to do the "yield x... yield
next" part. Any ideas?
arnau
> I'm only interested to have a list, or even help to
> extend an existing one.
If the main criterion is that the programs are written in Python then
surely the PythonInfo Wiki is the place for such a list:
http://wiki.python.org/moin/Applications
May I suggest that you extend this one?
David
David, thank you very much, perfect! :)
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Franz Steinhaeusler
Thank you for that interesting applications.
They are surely interesting as example of learning pyhton
and convince some people to choose/switch to pyhton.
>
>Office?? - no idea, openoffice can be scripted in python.
>
>Web - * isnt bit torrent python?, probably lots of stuff but I dont know
>of them ;)
That purpose also a good list could fulfill, to show the capabilities
of pyhton not only on a theoretical way of showing sample code.
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Franz Steinhaeusler
I might be a little biased, but surely Yelp.com is the best "program"
written entirely in Python ;-)
Other really cool Python projects are Launchpad
(https://launchpad.net/) and Trac (http://trac.edgewall.org/). And of
course most Linux desktop distributions (especially Ubuntu and
Redhat/Fedora) have a huge number of small components that rely on
Python entirely or to put together the frontend. Great examples of
this are Bazaar VCS and the Anaconda installer.
The Twisted project isn't a program per se, but it's written in Python
and is really incredible as well.
Google's Mondrian code review system is written in Python and looks
really amazing. I just wish I could try it out :-)
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Evan Klitzke <ev...@yelp.com>
I guess, that gentoo's portage is (almost?) entirely written in
python. The same is with Zope/Plone (Web category), though I know,
that Zope has some parts of code written in C. Django?
Big part's of google "tools" are written in python as well. Matplotlib
is said to be written entirely in python.
These are examples from the top of my head. If I'll came up with
something else, I will let You know :-)
Cheers,
Marek
Ah yes of course,
One or I, often see only programs, which is "closed in itself",
like an editor, viewer, newsreader, and oversee, that big parts
of "invisible" software is written in python.
Thank you for mentioning that pieces of software!
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Franz Steinhaeusler
IIRC, yes (or perahps does it use a couple bash scripts too).
> The same is with Zope/Plone
"Zope/Plone" makes two distinct applications : the web application
server Zope, and the CMS Plone.
> (Web category), though I know,
> that Zope has some parts of code written in C.
Yes. Mostly for low-level parts that couldn't be done in pure Python, at
least by the time they were written.
> Django?
Then mention CherryPy, Turbogears and Pylons (and *quite* a lot of web
frameworks FWIW) too !-)
Oh, and yes, there's Twisted too...
Gentoo Linux's "Portage" package management tool is written in Python.
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Ant...
> wWhat are the best programs in your opinion, written entirly
> in pyhton, divided into categories like:
> a) Games
> b) Utilities/System
> c) Office
> d) Web/Newsreader/Mail/Browser
BitTorrent. It may not seem much but it's a really cool package.
Especially you don't have to use the standard frontends, but can
also use BitTorrent modules in your own Python programs.
Wolfgang Draxinger
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E-Mail address works, Jabber: hexa...@jabber.org, ICQ: 134682867
I'm not sure if anyone has mentioned mercurial in this thread.
It's a distributed source control system, sort of the next generation
after systems like CVS/SVN. See www.selenic.com/mercurial
> d) Web/Newsreader/Mail/Browser
Mailman (mailing list manager)? I tend to use emacs for all the
client side stuff.
Well, I don't want to make an advertisement but Pardus project's (a
GNU/Linux distro) specific projects are completely written in Python.
You can check it out at http://www.pardus.org.tr/eng/index.html
Not mentioned so far, here or on the Applications wiki page, is
SpamBayes,
an excellent spam filter: <http://www.spambayes.org/>. It supports
POP3 and
IMAP, and has a plugin for Outlook. Another group has improved
SpamBayes
integration with Thunderbird by developing a TBird extension called
ThunderBayes.
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