Tom Loredo's Python Bookmarks

Tom Loredo's Python Bookmarks

General:

• Python Home Page
• Pythonlabs.com
• Python HOWTOs at SourceForge
• New Mexico Tech Python Quick Reference - Paginated PS/PDF
• NMTech Python Materials - Alternate links
• Python Quick Reference
• Python Quick Reference - Various formats (HTML, PDF...)
• Whole Python FAQ
• Python glossary
• Python IAQ
• Python for Beginners
• JPython - Java implementation of Python
• Python Library Reference Module Index
• Guide to the Standard Python Library - eBook
• Python Library Reference Search
• Python Contributed Modules
• ActivePython - Binary dist'n for Linux/Solaris/Win
• Dr. Dobbs Python-URL - Posted weekly to comp.lang.python
• Python-URL Google groups search
• Python Weekly URL Archive - To mid-2000
• The Daily Python-URL!
• Pythonology - Helping developers and managers evaluate and adopt Python
• The Python Cookbook - Reviewed recipes
• PyPI - Python Package Index
• Vaults of Parnassus: Python Resources
• Parnassus channel at Userland - 15 latest submissions
• Parnassus channel at O'Reilly
• Cetus Objects/Components Links: Python
• python.faqts: Python Knowledge Base
• O'Reilly's Python DevCenter
• Python-Dev Archives - Discussion of new Python features/bugs
• Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)
• Software Carpentry - Scientific software dev. w/ python
• SNiFF++ for Python - Commercial large project management (browser...)
• Python Topic Guides
• ASPN Python Lists Index
• Python Education SIG
• Python varieties
• mxCGIPython - Easy binary installations of Python
• ActivePython - Binaries for Win, Linux, Solaris
• Python Journal
• Python & Linux
• Zope.org list of Python books
• Thinking in Python - Includes "The Python Way"
• Green Tea Press - "How To Think Like a Computer Scientist: Learning with Python"
• EasyTut - Nonprogrammer's intro to Python
• How to think like a computer scientist: Python version
• Python 101 cheat sheet
• Python for Lisp Programmers
• Dive Into Python
• Text Processing in Python - Book
• Python FAQ Module Search
• Links2Go Python Link Query
• Instant Python - 6pp tutorial with examples
• SpinDocZine's Python Tutorial - Book in Word97 format
• Python Snippets
• Python/Perl Phrasebook - Side-by-side examples/idioms
• Pippy: Python for PalmOS
• Mark Lutz's Home Page - With updates to Programming Python
• How to write a Python Extension
• Pyrex - Language for writing Python extension modules
• IDLE - Obsolete
• IDLE fork at SourceForge
• Deeply Embedded Python - Minimal Python for embedded systems
• Python Warts - Weaknesses of Python
• FPIG - Fortran to Python Interface Generator
• Python for Windows CE
• Python's Future
• Linux Journal Python Supplement (May 2000)
• CXX - Wrapper for C++ extensions
• SIP - a "small SWIG", part of PyQT, wraps C++ libraries
• Boost - For wrapping C++
• PyObjC - Message Obj-C objects from Python
• Python Short Course - Caltech
• Martijn Faassen's Python course outline
• PythonWorks for Windows - $395 development environment
• Regular expression how-to
• Python-aware IDEs and Editors
• Dossier - Printed versions of Python docs
• PyContract - Doctest-inspired contracts for Python
• Aspects module - Aspects for Python via docstrings
• Prothon - Classless prototype-based programming similar to Python
• PythonSpeed Wiki
• The Simplest Possible Metaclasses - Override class __str__; control truth value of class

Python on the Mac

• MacPython
• MacPython Help
• Pythonmac-SIG Archives
• Russell Owen's Mac OS X Python Tips
• ODP MacPython directory
• Tip for using tkinter with MacPython

Numerical/Graphics/Scientific:

• Python and Scientific Computing
• Python in Science
• Python.org Numerical/Scientific/Parsing/Data Structures links
• python-numerics discussion - Python's numerical model (not NumPy!)
• numarray home page at STScI
• LLNL Python Extensions (NumPy) at SourceForge
• Numerical Python - Numeric, numarray, and Numeric3
• NumPy discussion list at SourceForge
• Pyfort at SourceForge
• LLNL Python Extensions - NumPy, RNG, PyGraphics, PyHistory, CXX_Objects
• LLNL NumPy FTP Site
• LLNL Python Extensions - NumPy, NumTut, Pyfort...
• DIII-D Python Packages - Index of computing/grpahics resources
• CGI Mathematical Python - Numerical & statistical resource pointers
• MatPy - Matlab-like matrices and plotting via NumPy and Gnuplot
• Writing NumPy Extensions
• NumPy arrays in C extension modules
• Extending Python for Numerical Computation - Origin of NumPy
• SciPy.org
• SciPy CVS snapshot via ftp
• PyGSL - Wrapper for GSL
• Python for Science - With ScientificPython and Python/NumPy dist'n
• NAGpy - i/f to the NAG library
• Probability And Statistics Utils for Python - Permutations, combinations...
• PAIDA - Implenentation of Abstract Interface for Data Analysis (i/f to common analysis objects in physics)
• AstroPy: Astronomical Python Home Page
• BOTEC - Orbital mechanics calculator with solar system database
• Numerically Python - Articles at O'Reilly
• PyTables - Hierarchical database for table and array data from Numeric/numarray via HDF5
• PyFITS - Object-oriented FITS i/f for python; FTP
• PyFITS 0.3 - Later version of Dec 1999
• pCFITSIO - SWIG wrap of cfitsio FITS interface
• ISO/IEC 8211 home page - Geographic info transfer format
• Global Arrays Python Interface - C global arrays, parallel computing
• PyEphem - Astronomical ephemeris; based on XEphem
• ppgplot (also by ftp from Harvard) - pgplot i/f
• PLplot - Public domain, interfaces to Fortran, C/C++, Python, Tcl; Unix/Mac/Dos
• UBC Python page - PLplot and pgplot interfaces
• GnuPlot console for MacPython - Simple plotting with MacPython
• Some Python Modules - Special functions, signal processing, quadrature, FFT, *pack, binary i/o, opt'n
• PyDAS: Python Data Analysis Servant
• SalStat Statistics - GPL statistical data analysis in wxPython
• PIL: The Python Imaging Library
• PIL: The Python Imaging Library Handbook
• Plotting with Python
• Chaco - STScI-sponsored 2D plotting package
• Gnuplot.py
• Gnuplot.py at SourceForge
• Piddle - Graphics API for Python
• Graphite - Scientific plotting using Piddle
• Biggles - Scientific plotting
• gracePlot.py - Interactive plotting with Grace
• kmatplot - gnuplot/Matlab-like plotting capability; rqrs KDE or Qt
• MatPlotLib - Matlab-inspired plotting package
• Sparkplot - Word-sized graphics via Matplotlib
• Veusz - OO scientific plotting, PS output, OO GUI via PyQt
• PyX - Graphics with PS output and TeX text processing
• WxPyPlot - Lightweight classes for wxPython plotting
• DISLIN - Plotting library; Win/Unix binaries
• pxDislin - Python wrappers for DISLIN
• disipyl - OO wrappers for DISLIN
• Py-OpenDX
• cgkit: Computer Graphics Kit - 3-D graphics, largely based on Pixar's RenderMan
• PyOSG - Interface to OpenSceneGraph; real-time 3D vis'n
• Ygl_script - Bindings to Ygl implementation of SGI's GL routines; fast 2D drawing
• PyVTK
• The MayaVi Data Visualizer
• Visual Python - Easy 3D animation; Win/Linux/Mac
• Magnus' Python Page - PS backend for Piddle; tutorials
• Snow - Plotting framework (development on hold)
• pyGDChart2
• PyX - EPS drawing with TeX/LaTeX interface
• Python plots with GMT (General Mapping Tools)
• Matplotlib - Python/pygtk plotting with Matlab style i/f
• Python paint module - 2D PNG rendering with TrueType fonts
• User's guide to Pmw.Blt - i/f to BLT Graph 2D plotting library in Tcl
• PyVTK - Manipulate Vis'n ToolKit files
• BBLimage/Pyvox - Volumetric imaging
• PyStripchart widget library - Display time-sampled data in an interactive "strip chart"
• PyGimp
• Sketch - Vector drawing; Unix
• Konrad Hinsen's Scientific Modules
• Gary Strangman's Python Modules - Stats, i/o
• Numerical Recipes in Python - a limited selection
• Sparse Linear Eqn Solver - tarball
• sparsemodule - Sparse linear systems
• Skip Montanero's Python Performance Tips
• Mike Miller's Python Stuff- HTMLTableParser.py, ASCII TableIO, physics modules, DataGrabber, GNU plotutils
• General Graphics Interface - For Linux; Python wrapper available
• XAssist - Analysis of extragalactic X-ray data
• Python Hacks - Includes PyAstro, Zpdf, Webftp
• Cassowary Constraint Solving Toolkit - C++ with Python i/f
• Modules by Rob Hooft - Display numeric arrays via PIL...
• Gato - Graph animation toolbox, with Gred graph editor
• Python i/f to GDChart - GIF/PNG charts & graphs
• gdmodule - Create PNG/JPEG images
• PythonMagick - Python i/f to GraphicsMagick image manipulation library
• PyGIMP - Python scripting of GIMP
• SILOON: Scripting Interface Languages for Object-Oriented Numerics
• PythonPoint - PDF slides
• Biggles -
• Pythonica - Symbolic math with Python
• PyGiNaC - Python binding to GiNaC computer algebra library
• PYDL: Python Data Language - Linux IDL clone, using dislin
• Misc Python-isms - Includes TableIO for ASCII/NumPy, some graphics & physics
• Using Python for parallel computing using MPI
• GMPY - General Multiprecision PYthon
• PyClimate - Atmospheric & ocean data analysis; eignes, SVD, diff'l ops on sphere...
• QuantLib - C++ quant. finance library w/ Python bindings; PDEs, Monte Carlo...
• OpenGLContext - Learning Environment for PyOpenGL
• The Omega Project for Statistical Computing - With Omegahat R-Python i/f
• XR - exact real arithmetic
• Vision Egg - Visual stimulus creation and control; "kitchen sink" dist'n, LabView i/f...
• SciParam - Parameter entry with wxPython GUIs
• ESML: Earth Science data Markup Language - With Python i/f; formats incl. ASCII, binary, HDF-EOS, netCDF, GRIB
• Unum - Units-handling module
• RSOAP - Access to R via SOAP
• mlabwrap - Call Matlab from Python
• DateUtil - Powerful extensions to the standard datetime module
• CVXOPT - Convex optimization
• NetworkX - Analysis of complex networks/graphs (nodes+edges)

Web-Related:

• Python-Friendly ISPs
• Python and the Web
• Zope
• ZODB3 - Most recent beta of StandaloneZODB
• StandaloneZODB (CVS instructions)
• Alternate version of standalone ZODB - Has some extra modules
• ZODB Wiki
• ZODB for Python Programmers
• ZODB for Beginners
• IndexedCatalog extension to ZODB
• Dejavu ORM - Object-Relational Mapper; persistancy for objects
• Durus - Persistent object system
• ZopeNewbies
• Zope Case Study and ZBook
• Xen - Web-based project management via Zope
• PMZ - Poor Man's Zope
• ASPy - Server-side HTML scripting via JPython
• LinBot - Link/image analysis of HTML documents
• LinkCheck - Smart, multithreaded link checker
• Kevin Dahlhausen's Python Stuff - Gallery; database CGI; G2 2D graphics; vi
• Gallery - Scripting of HTML for photo galleries
• pix - Simple web-based image gallery system
• Bookmarks Database (and here) - Python parsing of bookmarks files
• Tools for parsing XML with Python - Also HTML parsing
• Beautiful Soup - Quick-turnaround HTML/XML parser
• PILGraph - Various graphs for use in log file analysis
• Alice - Easy interactive 3D graphics for WWW; Windows
• Jeff's Starship Site - htmlTableParse.py
• Mike Miller's Python Stuff- HTMLTableParser.py, ASCII TableIO, physics modules, DataGrabber
• Python Bits - Includes genpix.py (HTML photo indexer), other web utils
• Jeremy Hylton's Python Goodies - urllib2 (more customizable than urllib); other net stuff
• Dan Larsson's Python Projects - pythondoc, auto documentation in HTML
• pybibliographer - Manages biblio databases, including BibTeX
• Nightmare's Python Wares - Medusa server; parsers, balanced trees, matrices
• urllib2.py - Extensible URL library
• Webware's WebKit
• Python Template Systems
• Web Frameworks Overview - Produced by the Python web modules e-group
• night2html - HTML templates via DTML
• xmlt - HTML templates via DTML
• EmPy - Templating system for Python with any type of text
• Zope Page Templates
• SimpleTAL - Stand-alone impl. of Zope Page Templates
• JOTWeb - Dynamic web programming via HTML & TAL/TALES/METAL templating
• simpleTAL - Standalone implementation of Zope's TAL
• PubTal - Templating for small web sites via SimpleTAL
• AHTS - A HTML Template System - Python version of ACS
• Spyce - Python Server Pages (PSP) similar to PHP, JSP, ASP
• Yats: Yet Another Template System
• htmltmpl - HTML templates for Python/PHP/Perl
• Albatross - Web application toolkit; templates, etc.
• Mailman - Mailing list management with web interface
• Manipulating HTML using 4DOM
• XIST - HTML/XML generator & DOM parser with tree API
• cgipm.py - Perl CGI.pm workalike
• Zebra: a web tool - XML-based preprocessor with Python capability
• Webware for Python - Suite of tools for CGI, PSP...
• Weblib - For interactive websites, manages CGI, cookies, persistance...
• CGIgen
• Ransacker - Double-indexed search engine for text files
• RAX: Record API for XML
• Oedipus - Classes for maintaining a directory of web links
• CCQ Enterprises - Open-source web code; BBS implementation
• Mod_Python - Python module for Apache web server
• XIST 0.3 - XML based extensible HTML generator
• Quixote - Web app framework, Python Template Language
• ZODB documentation
• ZODB Development Wiki - Zope Object DataBase info
• py2html.py - Colorize for web (script)
• Python HTML resources - For putting source on web
• PyXR - Cross-referenced HTML from Python source
• JAXML - Generate human-readable XML
• MapIt! - Navigate raster-maps using PIL via a browser
• MoinMoin - Wiki clone for Python
• PikiePikie - Wiki clone for Python
• OSE - Application framework with HTTP/SOAP/XML support
• mxTidy - Interface to HTML Tidy
• crypto - Basic crypto for *nix systems
• Ming - Produces Flash/SWF output
• ftputil - Simpler ftplib i/f
• Papercut - Python news server
• Mark Pilgrim's Python Projects - PyGoogle, PySiteStats...
• mimedecode.py
• webval - URL scanner, maintainer, validator
• Puffin - Automated testing of dynamic web apps
• Pexpect - Control child apps for automated interaction
• SpamBayes - Bayesian anti-spam classifier
• Custom - Small/medium-scale e-commerce solution
• PythonMagick - Python i/f to GraphicsMagick image manipulation library
• EClass.net - E-learning & media authorship toolkit
• Web server in Python for local sites & web-GUIs
• Naja - Download manager, website grabber
• cwm - Data processor for the Semantic Web
• itools - API to manage URIs/URLs in XML; virtual file system
• PyGoogle - i/f to Google Web APIs
• Amara - XML processing with Pythonic idioms; uses 4Suite
• Naja - Download manager with newsreader, editor etc. plugins; adware
• Tahchee - Static website build system using Cheetah

GUI:

• Python GUIs
• AnyGUI
• Python X Extension
• Tkinter:
  • Tkinter 3000
  • Intro to Tkinter
  • Thinking in Tkinter
  • Tkinter reference - Also Python & PIL quick refs
  • PAGE - RAD for Tk/Tix
  • Pmw: Python Mega Widgets - Nice collection of Tkinter widgets
  • TkLook - Configurable look for Tkinter
  • The Parrot GUI builder - HTML/XML/Tkinter backends
  • Mac Tkinter intro
  • Page - Automatic Tk GUI builder
  • Tkinter Widget Construction Kit
  • Tkinspect - Inspect contents of a separate, running Tk app
  • Venster - Win32 GUIs in Python
• wxPython:
  • wxPython - Cross-platform GUI
  • Boa Constructor - RAD GUI constructor for wxPython
  • wxPython for newbies
  • wxPyWiki: wxPython Mac
  • wxPyWiki: Macho Python
  • wxPython Pit - Sample scripts
• PyUI - GUI in pure Python built on PyGame/SDL (Unix, Mac, Win)
• Scripting Language Support - Python bindings for Qt/KDE ($1k)
• GTK Language Bindings - Open source Unix/Win GUI
• PyGTK for Win32
• GladeBase - Glade/GTK i/f designer
• Python + KDE Tutorial - GUI with KDE & Qt widgets
• Python GUI API Proposal - With X implementaiton
• pyFLTK - Fast Light Toolkit, Win/Linux/Mac
• Python Bindings for Qt/KDE
• PyQwt - FAST and EASY data plotting for Python and (Py)Qt
• Python + KDE Tutorial
• FOX - Crossplatform GUI with Python wrappers (Unix/Win)
• FXPy - Python bindings for FOX
• Parrot - Text-based GUI builder
• pyFLTK: Python wrapper for Fast Light Tool Kit - X/OpenGL/Win32
• Pthon + KDE tutorial - KDE & Qat
• SpecPython - SpecTcl (Tk/Java graphical i/f gen) for Python
• FXPy - i/f to FOX GUI library
• BlackAdder - QT-based Python IDE/RAD environment for Win/Linux
• Anygui - Python front end to various GUI back ends
• PythonCard
• PAGE - Drag-n-drop GUI generator for Linux/Win using vTcl
• SpecTix - GUI dev environment using Tix/Tk

Miscellany:

• JPI: Java Python Interface
• JPE: Java-Python Extension
• Marc's Python Pages - Text, date/time, CGI, colorizing, doc strings...
• mxTools - Various useful new builtins for python
• eGenix.com Python software - mx extensions (mxDateTime, mxTextTools, mxTools...)
• Meta language for mxTextTools
• MxTextTools - Fast text manipulation in python
• SPARK: Compiler framework classes for Python
• TRAP - Python prototyping system for translators/compilers
• John Aycock's Python Stuff - Little languages to Python...
• PLY: Python Lex-Yacc
• Chordate Solutions - S/w & database resources; kwParsing, Gadfly SQL for python
• nascheme/python directory - LParser, pyQuickRef, looping, sparse matrices...
• McMillan Enterprises Python Info - Tutorials on GUI, sockets, graphs...
• Sketch: Drawing Program for Python/Linux
• fortran.i - SWIG module for wrapping fortran (alpha!)
• Python2C
• Dabo - Database application development framework (via SQL, wxPython)
• xsdb - eXtra Simple DataBase; server uses Stackless Python
• Gadfly - SQL database for Python
• MkSQL - SQL front end for MetaKit
• dbObj - dynamic object-oriented repository using Python DB-API spec
• OOPS - Object-Oriented Persistent Storage
• KirbyBase - Small-footprint, Pythonic flat-file database
• CSV - Comma-Separated Value db for Python
• CSV module for Python - CSV parsing via a C extension
• Python-DSV - Parse delimiter-separated values
• Python mode for Emacs
• Compiling little languages in Python
• PyParsing - OO text parsing
• Resistor.py - RLC circuit analysis
• Python Bytecode Optimizer
• Michael Hudson's Bytecode Optimization Hacks
• plumbo.py - Detects circular refs (memory leaks)
• PST: PythonWare Sound Toolkit - Win/Sun
• ThougtStream - Information storage/organization
• List Comprehensions Patch
• CDDB.py - Fetch audio CD info from CDDB servers
• Ping's Python Things - Includes string interpolation, regex compilation
• interpolate.py - String interpolation
• reverb.py - regex compiler
• Some Open-Source Software Hacks - File object wrapper, DejaGrabber, Multimethods
• datetime.py - Pure python time/date utilities
• OB's Python Software - Includes time/date utils, progress bar...
• Garbage Collector patch - Catches some cyclic references
• David Ascher: Constrained Variables
• David Ascher: Paren-less Commands
• HP Python Business Libraries: pysol - Utilities
• Tabs vs. Spaces
• Stackless Python
• Python Microthreads - Using stackless Python
• AT&T's omniORB CORBA i/f
• PyUnit - Python unit testing framework
• OmPyUnit - Python unit testing framework
• DataTest - unittest-compatible unit testing, with params
• Sancho - Quixote's unit test framework
• cmdline - Command line parsing/typechecking
• Pointrel Data Repository System - Triad-based database
• Distributing Python Apps - Small distributions of Python
• Learning to program - Intro to Python and OOP
• Harry George's Python Projects - mkpythonproj, cgipm, POD...
• Scintilla/SciTE - Editor with outlining and HTML facilities for Python
• BBEdit Python Language Module - For the MacOS text editor
• py2tex - Python to TeX
• PySgrep (tarfile) - Python i/f to sgrep
• Narval - Personal network assistant
• PyChecker - Finds common bugs
• PyLint - A pychecker-like bug finder; can also check vs. code standards
• typo.py - Finds variable misspellings in code
• C++ Standard Library for Python
• Python documentation tricks & tips
• Using pydoc
• LazyPython - Exception hook with shell escapes, auto parens...
• Article on LazyPython and other interactive mods
• IPython - Interactive shell for scientific comp'n
• pyrepl - A readline replacement, enhancing interactive mode
• Python for Lisp Programmers
• Decompyle
• PdfSearch - Text searching in PDF archives
• A logging system for Python
• Logilab's constraint solving package
• leo.py - Python/Tk outlining editor for programmers
• omniORB - C++/Python CORBA ORB
• SCons - A build tool, a modern substitute for "make"
• A-A-P - "recipe"-based build tool
• gerber2pdf.py
• PythonCAD
• Docutils - Process plaintext into HTML, XML, TeX
• EpyDoc - Generate API docs in HTML from docstrings
• hYPerSonic - Framework for sound processing pipelines; linux/OS X
• Drawing inheritance diagrams with "Dot"
• hashtar - Encrypted archiving, robust to byte errors
• DocIndexer - Index & search directories of text, RTF, DOC and HTML (Win)
• save_session.py - Save interactive session state
• CGKit - 3D Computer graphics kit: matrices, quaternions, RenderMan
• Rekall - Database front end using Qt; Win/Linux, OS X planned
• Pexpect - Spawn a child application and control it as if typing commands
• PyNSource - Instant UML class diagrams from Python source
• PyLinda - Simple API for distributed computing
• PyProtocols - Interfaces and component adaptation
• WordTech Software Python Apps for OS X - LeoOSX, PearsOSX, PyUnitOSX, wxGladeOSX
• Elements and Element Trees - Docs for ElementTree hierarchical container for XML
• Generating Python module dependency graphs
• Axon - Concurrency via pipe-like interface
• Task Coach - Hierarchical task manager/todo list
• athenaCL - Polyphonic, poly-paradign algorithmic music composition
• Documancer - wxPython-based documentation reader (HTML, info, man, pydoc...)
• Namespace - Containers for named items

Audio/Music-Related:

• PyPortAudio and fastaudio
• PortAudio downloads - Includes Python bindings
• hYPerSonic - Real-time processing pipelines; Linux/OS X
• OpenAL for OS X
• ALPY - 3D sound kit based on OpenAL
• dsptools - Python i/f to portaudio, ladspa and libsndfile