On Sun, 05 Aug 2007 21:31:23 +1000, Campbell Barton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>O.R.Senthil Kumaran wrote: >> * Franz Steinh?usler <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [2007-08-05 12:14:38]: >> >>> 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? > >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 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. -- Franz Steinhaeusler -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list