On 18 Jul., 12:23, Ben Sizer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Jul 16, 3:31 pm, Fredrik Lundh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > Ben Sizer wrote: > > > make my development a lot easier. > > > Knowing what kind of development you do might help, of course. Some > > libraries are excellent in some contexts and suck badly in others... > > Sure. Mostly I'm just interested in what's out there though. In C++ > you have Boost which everybody knows are a source of high quality > libraries, covering a fairly wide set of applications. Obviously > that's more low-level and less application specific, and the Python > standard libs do pretty much everything that is in Boost, but it's > that sort of peer-reviewed and widely-applicable list that I'd like to > see. > > I (attempt to) use TurboGears for web development and that depends on > a whole bunch of libraries - SQLObject, PyProtocols, RuleDispatch, > SimpleJson, FormEncode, etc - and I would never have heard of these if > TurboGears' exposure of its internals wasn't so common. Some of these > are web-specific but some are not. And I'd never know to look for them > specificially, because in many cases it wouldn't occur to me that they > exist. (eg. Object-Relational Mappers like SQLObject may be obvious if > you come from certain areas of IT, but I'd never heard of them before > I started with TurboGears.) > > For what it's worth, my main areas of interest are gaming, multimedia, > and web development. But I just like to hear about anything that > people might use which makes their life a lot easier and which perhaps > is not application specific - like ORMs or something similar. > > > Looking at things that larger projects and distributions use can also be > > a good idea. For example, if you're doing scientific stuff, go directly > > to enthought.com. If you're doing web stuff, look at the libraries big > > Django applications use. Etc. > > Sadly, I know just as little about what major applications are out > there as I do about what libraries are out there! > > -- > Ben Sizer
In the original post you asked for "hidden gems" and now it seems you just want to know about Madonna or Justin Timberlake. Maybe a look on this collection helps http://wiki.python.org/moin/UsefulModules -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
