Python CD 2004-07-02

Python CD is a bootable CD based on Debian GNU/Linux and KNOPPIX.
The special thing about it is that it has lots of Python stuff!
Installable Python packages
In the top level directory of the CD is a directory python/, containing several packages of Python:
- Python for Linux - most Linux distributions include Python, so we dont provide it for them
- Python for Mac OS X
- Python for Windows, win32all extension
- Python for DOS - no maintainer yet, so we only provide an URL
- Python source code, if you want to compile it yourself
Ready-to-Use Python
On the bootable Linux system, Python is already installed and ready to run:
- Python 2.3.4 (latest and greatest, use this!)
- Python 2.2.3
- Python 2.1.3
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
- BoaConstructor
- PythonCard
- ? WxGlade
GUI Toolkit bindings
- PyGtk
- PyQt
- WxPython
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"