On Apr 14, 3:01 am, blahemailb...@gmail.com wrote: > > 1) Rake - is there an equivalent of Rake? I've seen a bit about SCons, > and it looks really nice, but it seems geared towards being a Make > replacement for C/C++ rather than something that's used to work with > Python itself. Is there anything like a Python build tool? (Or do I > even need something like that? I haven't worked with any large Python > systems, just little things here and there.)
If the things you need automated aren't *too* complex, you'd be remiss if you didn't at least have a 2nd look at good old GNU make. > 2) Gems - I've seen a bit about Eggs, but they don't seem to have > anywhere near the official status gems do for Ruby. Are there any > "package management" things like this for Python, or do you usually > just grab the code you need as-is? Go have a look at the [PyPI](http://pypi.python.org/pypi) for packages, download them, and install them using the standard distutils `python setup.py install` command. This puts packages into your python's `site-packages` dir. You can also use the whole eggs/easy_install/setuptools thing, but I prefer the simpler standard method just described. > 3) Web frameworks - yeah, I realize there are tons of these, but are > TurboGears, Django, and Zope still the big ones? I've seen a lot about > Pylons, is that a separate framework or is it a ... well, frame that > other things are built on? (TG seems to be related to Pylons at a > glance?) Django has a lot of steam. > 4) Unit Test frameworks - If there's a behavioral test suite like > RSpec that's be awesome, but I'd be happy to settle for a good, solid > unit testing system. I'd look at the standard doctest module: http://docs.python.org/library/doctest.html -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
