The Pythonware site doesn’t look all that interesting until you start clicking the links. It provides you with access to a number of third-party libraries that help you perform additional tasks using Python. Although all the links provide you with useful resources, the “Downloads (
downloads.effbot.org)” link is the one you should look at first. This download site provides you with access to
- aggdraw: A library that helps you create anti-aliased drawings.
- celementtree: An add-on to the elementtree library that makes working with XML data more efficient and faster.
- console: An interface for Windows that makes it possible to create better console applications.
- effbot: A collection of useful add-ons and utilities, including the EffNews RSS news reader.
- elementsoap: A library that helps you create Simple Object Access Protocol (SOAP) connections to web services providers.
- elementtidy: An add-on to the elementtree library that helps you create nicer-looking and more functional XML tree displays than the standard ones in Python.
- elementtree: A library that helps you interact with XML data more efficiently than standard Python allows.
- exemaker: A utility that creates an executable program from your Python script so that you can execute the script just as you would any other application on your machine.
- ftpparse: A library for working with FTP sites.
- grabscreen: A library for performing screen captures.
- imaging: Provides the source distribution to the Python Imaging Library (PIL) that lets you add image-processing capabilities to the Python interpreter. Having the source lets you customize PIL to meet specific needs.
- pil: Binary installers for PIL, which make obtaining a good installation for your system easier. (There are other PIL-based libraries as well, such as pilfont — a library for adding enhanced font functionality to a PIL-based application.)
- pythondoc: A utility for creating documentation from the comments in your Python code that works much like JavaDoc.
- squeeze: A utility for converting your Python application contained in multiple files into a one- or two-file distribution that will execute as normal with the Python interpreter.
- tkinter3000: A widget-building library for Python that includes a number of subproducts. Widgets are essentially bits of code that create controls, such as buttons, to use in GUI applications. There are a number of add-ons for the tkinter3000 library, such as wckgraph, which helps you add graphing support to an application.
