1 This directory contains a number of Python programs that are useful 2 while building or extending Python. 3 4 bgen Generate complete extension modules from a 5 description. Still under development! 6 WARNING: bgen has been removed in 3.0. 7 8 compiler Tools used to maintain the compiler package in the 9 standard library. 10 11 faqwiz FAQ Wizard. 12 See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw.py 13 for a live example. 14 15 freeze Create a stand-alone executable from a Python program. 16 17 gdb Python code to be run inside gdb, to make it easier to 18 debug Python itself (by David Malcolm). 19 20 i18n Tools for internationalization. pygettext.py 21 parses Python source code and generates .pot files, 22 and msgfmt.py generates a binary message catalog 23 from a catalog in text format. 24 25 scripts A number of useful single-file programs, e.g. tabnanny.py 26 by Tim Peters, which checks for inconsistent mixing of 27 tabs and spaces, and 2to3, which converts Python 2 code 28 to Python 3 code. 29 30 unicode Tools used to generate unicode database files for 31 Python 2.0 (by Fredrik Lundh). 32 33 versioncheck A tool to automate checking whether you have the latest 34 version of a package (by Jack Jansen). 35 36 webchecker A link checker for web sites. 37 38 world Script to take a list of Internet addresses and print 39 out where in the world those addresses originate from, 40 based on the top-level domain country code found in 41 the address. 42
