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CPAN for Python?

Tres Seaver tseaver at aftershock.neosoft.com
Tue Jan 4 12:30:50 EST 2000 
In article <84t52c$1gg$1 at nntp9.atl.mindspring.net>,
Aahz Maruch <aahz at netcom.com> wrote:
>In article <38720F70.A5DC6F33 at ttm.com>,
>Scott Anderson  <sanderson at ttm.com> wrote:
>>
>>Is there an equivalent of Perl's CPAN for Python?
>
>Well, there's Parnassus (http://www.vex.net/parnassus/), but there's not
>yet an overarching authority.

www.python.org blesses it, which is probably about as close as we'll see.
I may misrecall (blessedly little Perl experience) but doesn't CPAN allow
for browsing from the interpreter prompt, and downloading?  That would be
a cool extension of a wonderful resource.

>OTOH, Python's "built-in" libraries are
>more extensive than Perl's; see the Library Reference for details.

parnassus.py,-anyone?'ly

Tres.
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