README
1This directory contains a number of Python programs that are useful
2while building or extending Python.
3
4buildbot Batchfiles for running on Windows buildslaves.
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6ccbench A Python threads-based concurrency benchmark. (*)
7
8demo Several Python programming demos.
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10freeze Create a stand-alone executable from a Python program.
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12gdb Python code to be run inside gdb, to make it easier to
13 debug Python itself (by David Malcolm).
14
15i18n Tools for internationalization. pygettext.py
16 parses Python source code and generates .pot files,
17 and msgfmt.py generates a binary message catalog
18 from a catalog in text format.
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20iobench Benchmark for the new Python I/O system. (*)
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22msi Support for packaging Python as an MSI package on Windows.
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24parser Un-parsing tool to generate code from an AST.
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26pybench Low-level benchmarking for the Python evaluation loop. (*)
27
28pynche A Tkinter-based color editor.
29
30scripts A number of useful single-file programs, e.g. tabnanny.py
31 by Tim Peters, which checks for inconsistent mixing of
32 tabs and spaces, and 2to3, which converts Python 2 code
33 to Python 3 code.
34
35stringbench A suite of micro-benchmarks for various operations on
36 strings (both 8-bit and unicode). (*)
37
38test2to3 A demonstration of how to use 2to3 transparently in setup.py.
39
40unicode Tools for generating unicodedata and codecs from unicode.org
41 and other mapping files (by Fredrik Lundh, Marc-Andre Lemburg
42 and Martin von Loewis).
43
44unittestgui A Tkinter based GUI test runner for unittest, with test
45 discovery.
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48(*) A generic benchmark suite is maintained separately at https://github.com/python/performance
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