GeneralLibraries

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Basic and General Resources

• CmdModule - tool for creating command line oriented user interface

• VenomPackage - nonspecific functions useful for any project, with extensive docs and unit tests.

Visualization, Graphics and Games Stuff

• MayaVi A library and application for scientific visualization based on VTK.

• VPython - 3D programming for ordinary mortals

• Chess - a chess adjudicator module

• Soya - A high level 3d engine written mostly in pyrex

• spineless - Another high level 3d enginge but “Focus is on flexibility, clean design and ease of use, not pure speed.”

• togra - Another 3D high level 3D engine.

• Panda3D - 3D engine with short learning curve, rapid development.

Web, Security and Cryptography

• SSLCrypto - package for adding encryption to Python programs.

• PyCBC - A CBC module for python (comes with PyBlowfish). This module is compatible with Perl’s Crypt::CBC module.

• PyCrypto - A collection of cryptographic algorithms and protocols.

• Any good pointers to client-side web prog resources, anybody?

  • Grail: but where can I find it? –lwickjr

Data compression

• PyLZMA - Python bindings for the LZMA compression algorithm.

Documenting

• epydoc - API documentation generator for Python modules

• pydoctor - documentation generator reinvented by Twisted project
  
  See also DocumentationTools

Language Processing and Parsing

• mxTextTools - a fast text manipulation toolkit for Python

• SimpleParse - a parser generator for mxTextTools v2.0.0

• PLY - the lex and yacc compiler construction tools implemented in plain Python

• SPARK - Scanning, Parsing and Rewriting Kit

• NLTK - Natural Language ToolKit

• libextractor - meta-data extraction library with Python binding

  See LanguageParsing for more tools.