README
1This directory contains a number of Python programs that are useful
2while building or extending Python.
3
4buildbot Batchfiles for running on Windows buildbot workers.
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6ccbench A Python threads-based concurrency benchmark. (*)
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8demo Several Python programming demos.
9
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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26peg_generator PEG-based parser generator (pegen) used for new parser.
27
28scripts A number of useful single-file programs, e.g. tabnanny.py
29 by Tim Peters, which checks for inconsistent mixing of
30 tabs and spaces, and 2to3, which converts Python 2 code
31 to Python 3 code.
32
33stringbench A suite of micro-benchmarks for various operations on
34 strings (both 8-bit and unicode). (*)
35
36unicode Tools for generating unicodedata and codecs from unicode.org
37 and other mapping files (by Fredrik Lundh, Marc-Andre Lemburg
38 and Martin von Loewis).
39
40unittestgui A Tkinter based GUI test runner for unittest, with test
41 discovery.
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44(*) A generic benchmark suite is maintained separately at https://github.com/python/performance
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46Note: The pynche color editor has moved to https://gitlab.com/warsaw/pynche
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