> 1) Rake - is there an equivalent of Rake? I've seen a bit about SCons, > and it looks really nice, but it seems geared towards being a Make > replacement for C/C++ rather than something that's used to work with > Python itself. Is there anything like a Python build tool?
Depends on what you want the build process to do. For Python packages themselves, distutils/setuptools should be sufficient (and it's extensible if you find it insufficient). It's the defacto standard - nearly every Python package comes with a setup.py. Use setup.py build, setup.py install, setup.py bdist_wininst, etc. > 4) Unit Test frameworks - If there's a behavioral test suite like > RSpec that's be awesome, but I'd be happy to settle for a good, solid > unit testing system. The unittest module is in the standard library. Regards, Martin -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list