On 2010-03-02 13:14:50 -0800, R Fritz <rfr...@u.washington.edu> said:

On 2010-02-28 06:31:56 -0800, sstein...@gmail.com said:

On Feb 28, 2010, at 9:28 AM, Someone Something wrote:

Is there something like cpan for python? I like python's syntax, but Iuse perl because of cpan and the tremendous modules that it has. --

Please search the mailing list archives.

This subject has been discussed to absolute death.

But somehow the question is not in the FAQ, though the answer is. See:
<http://www.python.org/doc/faq/library/#how-do-i-find-a-module-or-application-to-perform-task-x>

There

is also a program called cpan, distributed with Perl. It is used for searching, downloading, installing and testing modules from the CPAN repository. It's far more extensive than setuptools. AFAIK the python community has developed nothing like it.

-Tom

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