Hi Olly, I'd recommend http://www.python.org/pypi and http://www.vex.net/parnassus/
Regards, Liam Clarke On 10/3/05, Oliver Maunder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi all > > I'm pretty new to Python - I've worked through Dive Into Python, but not > done a lot else. One thing I have realised is that pretty much whatever you > want to do in Python, someone else has already done it and stuck it in a > library. My question is, how do you find these libraries. > > Here's an example - I want to write a program that downloads large files > from a website and stores them in a specified directory - preferably with > some kind of progress indicator. I'm pretty sure I can do this with urllib, > sgmllib (or just regular expressions to extract the links), basic python > file handling, and maybe some threading so I can download more than one file > at a time. Should be straightforward, but I don't want to do it only to find > there's a module with a get_file_from_web(url, destination, > progress_callback) function in it. > > So, what ways are there to find out which modules are out there (other than > reading this list, which I'm already doing)? Also, does anyone have specific > suggestions for the program I'm working on? > > Thanks for your help > > Olly > > > _______________________________________________ > Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org > http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor > > > _______________________________________________ Tutor maillist - Tutor@python.org http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/tutor
