PythonCdPackages

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Python CD Packages

Here is an overview of popular packages installed on the PythonCd.

PythonCdRawPackageList has a complete raw list of installed debian packages.

IDEs (Integrated Development Environments)

eric3 - a very nice and powerful GUI IDE
IDLE - a simpler, but also popular GUI IDE
DrPython - another GUI IDE
IPython - an extended interactive Python command interpreter

GUI Builders

Graphics libs

PIL
PyGame
PyOpenGL

Web/HTML/XML stuff

MoinMoin wiki - you are using it right now
TwistedMatrix AKA Twisted - a Python internet framework, very powerful
Quixote
PyXML, libxml2 and other XML packages

Scientific

python-numeric and python-numarray - math extensions
python-pyx - module for generating PostScript graphics, plotting

Database

Gadfly
python-mysqldb - interface for MySQL
python-pgsql - DB-API 2.0 interface to PostgreSQL v7.x
python-pygresql - PostgreSQL module

Misc

PyChecker - checks your source code for common errors

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