1This directory contains a number of Python programs that are useful
2while building or extending Python.
3
4audiopy		Audiopy is a program to control the Solaris audio
5		device, allowing you to choose both the input and
6		output devices, and to set the output volume, that can
7		be run either as a command-line script, or as a
8		Tkinter application.
9
10bgen		Generate complete extension modules from a
11		description.  Still under development!
12		WARNING: bgen has been removed in 3.0.
13
14compiler	Tools used to maintain the compiler package in the
15		standard library.
16
17faqwiz		FAQ Wizard.
18		See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw.py
19		for a live example.
20
21freeze		Create a stand-alone executable from a Python program.
22
23gdb             Python code to be run inside gdb, to make it easier to
24                debug Python itself (by David Malcolm).
25
26i18n		Tools for internationalization. pygettext.py
27		parses Python source code and generates .pot files,
28		and msgfmt.py generates a binary message catalog
29		from a catalog in text format.
30
31pynche		A Tkinter-based color editor.
32
33scripts         A number of useful single-file programs, e.g. tabnanny.py
34                by Tim Peters, which checks for inconsistent mixing of
35                tabs and spaces, and 2to3, which converts Python 2 code
36                to Python 3 code.
37
38unicode		Tools used to generate unicode database files for
39		Python 2.0 (by Fredrik Lundh).
40
41versioncheck	A tool to automate checking whether you have the latest
42		version of a package (by Jack Jansen).
43
44webchecker	A link checker for web sites.
45
46world		Script to take a list of Internet addresses and print
47		out where in the world those addresses originate from,
48		based on the top-level domain country code found in
49		the address.
50
51A generic benchmark suite is maintained separately at https://github.com/python/performance
52