On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Bob Miller wrote: > Q1. Perl has CPAN, a hugeamongous repository of useful libraries. > What's the Python equivalent? > Sourceforge ;-) There are ongoing projects to do something of this sort, but mostly if it's not in the standard library and it's not in debian, it's on a path that leads through a google search. > Q2. I need a function/object to do fu. What's the Python way to > search the documentation for things that do fu? (Aka, WTFM, "Where's > the manual?")
http://python.org/doc/ > > Current values of fu: > > make a query of MySQL > several modules available, you probably want a DB-api2.0 one > traverse a directory tree > os.path.walk() is part of the standard library > extract id3 tags from a .mp3 file > > transliterate a string (tr/ab/cd/ in Perl) > in the string module of the standard lib there is a function called translate it's somewhat more verbose than the eqivalent perl. Horses/courses etc.
