1 This directory contains various demonstrations of what you can do with

     2 Python.  They were all written by me except where explicitly stated

     3 otherwise -- in general, demos contributed by others ends up in the

     4 ../Contrib directory, unless I think they're of utmost general

     5 importance (like Matt Conway's Tk demos).

     6 

     7 A fair number of utilities that are useful when while developing

     8 Python code can be found in the ../Tools directory -- some of these

     9 can also be considered good examples of how to write Python code.

    10 

    11 Finally, in order to save disk space and net bandwidth, not all

    12 subdirectories listed here are distributed.  They are listed just

    13 in case I change my mind about them.

    14 

    15 

    16 cgi             CGI examples (see also ../Tools/faqwiz/.)

    17 

    18 classes		Some examples of how to use classes.

    19 

    20 comparisons	A set of responses to a really old language-comparison

    21 		challenge.

    22 

    23 curses		A set of curses demos.

    24 

    25 embed		An example of embedding Python in another application

    26 		(see also pysvr).

    27 

    28 imputil		Demonstration subclasses of imputil.Importer.

    29 

    30 md5test		Test program for the optional md5 module.

    31 

    32 metaclasses	The code from the 1.5 metaclasses paper on the web.

    33 

    34 parser		Example using the parser module.

    35 

    36 pdist		Old, unfinished code messing with CVS, RCS and remote

    37 		files.

    38 

    39 pysvr		An example of embedding Python in a threaded

    40 		application.

    41 

    42 rpc		A set of classes for building clients and servers for

    43 		Sun RPC.

    44 

    45 scripts		Some useful Python scripts that I put in my bin

    46 		directory.  No optional built-in modules needed.

    47 

    48 sockets		Examples for the new built-in module 'socket'.

    49 

    50 threads		Demos that use the 'thread' module.  (Currently these

    51 		only run on SGIs, but this may change in the future.)

    52 

    53 tix		Demos using the Tix widget set addition to Tkinter.

    54 

    55 tkinter		Demos using the Tk interface (including Matt Conway's

    56 		excellent set of demos).

    57 

    58 xml		Some XML demos.

    59 

    60 zlib		Some demos for the zlib module (see also the standard

    61 		library module gzip.py).