Re: Best Python packages?

2008-07-22 Thread Ben Sizer
On Jul 19, 5:59 pm, Kay Schluehr [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: In the original post you asked for hidden gems and now it seems you just want to know about Madonna or Justin Timberlake. Not really, and I don't see why you'd say that. Maybe a look on this collection helps

Re: Best Python packages?

2008-07-19 Thread Stefan Behnel
Iain King wrote: Well, if you're looking for a list of excellent 3rd party Python libraries, then I can give you the ones I like and use a lot: [...] BeautifulSoup : for real-world (i.e. not-at-all-recommendation- compliant) HTML processing You forgot lxml.html, which is much faster, more

Re: Best Python packages?

2008-07-19 Thread Iain King
On Jul 19, 8:56 am, Stefan Behnel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Iain King wrote: Well, if you're looking for a list of excellent 3rd party Python libraries, then I can give you the ones I like and use a lot: [...] BeautifulSoup : for real-world (i.e. not-at-all-recommendation- compliant) HTML

Re: Best Python packages?

2008-07-19 Thread Kay Schluehr
On 18 Jul., 12:23, Ben Sizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 16, 3:31 pm, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Sizer wrote: make my development a lot easier. Knowing what kind of development you do might help, of course. Some libraries are excellent in some contexts and suck

Re: Best Python packages?

2008-07-19 Thread Python Nutter
I think the hidden gems in multimedia/game production are Pyglet and Rabbyt. Whereas PyGame is the older api, its large and bloated and has of course a heavy dependency on SDL. Pyglet and Rabbyt are lightweight, efficient, have some amazing functions and hit native OpenGL in all the major OS

Re: Best Python packages?

2008-07-19 Thread Kay Schluehr
On 20 Jul., 05:54, Python Nutter [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I think the hidden gems in multimedia/game production are Pyglet and Rabbyt. Whereas PyGame is the older api, its large and bloated and has of course a heavy dependency on SDL. Pyglet and Rabbyt are lightweight, efficient, have some

Re: Best Python packages?

2008-07-18 Thread Ben Sizer
On Jul 16, 3:31 pm, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Sizer wrote: make my development a lot easier. Knowing what kind of development you do might help, of course.  Some libraries are excellent in some contexts and suck badly in others... Sure. Mostly I'm just interested in what's

Re: Best Python packages?

2008-07-18 Thread Iain King
On Jul 18, 11:23 am, Ben Sizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Jul 16, 3:31 pm, Fredrik Lundh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ben Sizer wrote: make my development a lot easier. Knowing what kind of development you do might help, of course.  Some libraries are excellent in some contexts and suck

Best Python packages?

2008-07-16 Thread Ben Sizer
Although the standard library in Python is great, there are undoubtedly some great packages available from 3rd parties, and I've encountered a few almost by accident. However, I don't know how a user would become aware of many of these. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ presumably lists most of the

Re: Best Python packages?

2008-07-16 Thread Fredrik Lundh
Ben Sizer wrote: make my development a lot easier. Knowing what kind of development you do might help, of course. Some libraries are excellent in some contexts and suck badly in others... Looking at things that larger projects and distributions use can also be a good idea. For example,

Re: Best Python packages?

2008-07-16 Thread Dennis Cote
Ben Sizer wrote: I'd love to have some way of finding out what hidden gems are out there in the Python world If they were easy to find, they wouldn't be hidden gems. :-) Dennis Cote -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Best Python packages?

2008-07-16 Thread Larry Bates
Ben Sizer wrote: Although the standard library in Python is great, there are undoubtedly some great packages available from 3rd parties, and I've encountered a few almost by accident. However, I don't know how a user would become aware of many of these. http://pypi.python.org/pypi/ presumably

Re: Best Python packages?

2008-07-16 Thread Russ P.
On Jul 16, 7:16 am, Ben Sizer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Although the standard library in Python is great, there are undoubtedly some great packages available from 3rd parties, and I've encountered a few almost by accident. However, I don't know how a user would become aware of many of