re: BJörn, I think selecting a GPL license will increase the number of usable packages, since using Python license with GPL is perfectly fine as long as the whole software is licensed under GPL [I am not really sure it is a must to license the whole package under GPL]
re: farksimm; I'd put (in nor particular order) - Python Imaging Library : http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ - wxPython : http://www.wxpython.org/ - ipython : http://ipython.scipy.org/moin/ - pycrypto : http://www.amk.ca/python/code/crypto - sqlalchemy : http://www.sqlalchemy.org/ - psycopg : http://www.initd.org/tracker/psycopg - docutils : http://docutils.sourceforge.net/ - NumPy/Numeric : http://numpy.scipy.org/ - if it's for Win32 also pywin32 : http://www.python.net/crew/mhammond/win32/ Yuce -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list