Python CD

Python CD is a bootable CD based on Debian GNU/Linux and KNOPPIX.

The special thing about it is that it has lots of Python stuff!

Installable Python packages

In the top level directory of the CD is a directory python/, containing several packages of Python:

· Python for Linux - most Linux distributions include Python, so we don't provide it for them
· Python for Mac OS X
· Python for Windows, win32all extension
· Python for DOS - no maintainer yet, so we only provide an URL
· Python source code, if you want to compile it yourself
Ready-to-Use Python
On the bootable Linux system, Python is already installed and ready to run:
· Python 2.3.4 (latest and greatest, use this!)
· Python 2.2.3
· Python 2.1.3

Python CD Packages

Here is an overview of popular packages installed on the PythonCd.

PythonCdRawPackageList has a complete raw list of installed debian packages.

IDEs (Integrated Development Environments)
· eric3 - a very nice and powerful GUI IDE
· IDLE - a simpler, but also popular GUI IDE
· DrPython - another GUI IDE
· IPython - an extended interactive Python command interpreter

GUI Builders

· BoaConstructor
· PythonCard
· ? WxGlade

GUI Toolkit bindings

· PyGtk
· PyQt
· WxPython

Graphics libs

· PIL
· PyGame
· PyOpenGL

Web/HTML/XML stuff

· MoinMoin wiki - you are using it right now
· TwistedMatrix AKA Twisted - a Python internet framework, very powerful
· Quixote
· PyXML, libxml2 and other XML packages
Scientific
· python-numeric and python-numarray - math extensions
· python-pyx - module for generating PostScript graphics, plotting

Database
· Gadfly
· python-mysqldb - interface for MySQL
· python-pgsql - DB-API 2.0 interface to PostgreSQL v7.x
· python-pygresql - PostgreSQL module
Misc
· PyChecker - checks your source code for common errors"