1This directory contains a number of Python programs that are useful
2while building or extending Python.
3
4buildbot        Batchfiles for running on Windows buildslaves.
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6ccbench         A Python threads-based concurrency benchmark. (*)
7
8demo            Several Python programming demos.
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10freeze          Create a stand-alone executable from a Python program.
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12gdb             Python code to be run inside gdb, to make it easier to
13                debug Python itself (by David Malcolm).
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15i18n            Tools for internationalization. pygettext.py
16                parses Python source code and generates .pot files,
17                and msgfmt.py generates a binary message catalog
18                from a catalog in text format.
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20iobench         Benchmark for the new Python I/O system. (*)
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22msi             Support for packaging Python as an MSI package on Windows.
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24parser          Un-parsing tool to generate code from an AST.
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26pybench         Low-level benchmarking for the Python evaluation loop. (*)
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28pynche          A Tkinter-based color editor.
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30scripts         A number of useful single-file programs, e.g. tabnanny.py
31                by Tim Peters, which checks for inconsistent mixing of
32                tabs and spaces, and 2to3, which converts Python 2 code
33                to Python 3 code.
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35stringbench     A suite of micro-benchmarks for various operations on
36                strings (both 8-bit and unicode). (*)
37
38test2to3        A demonstration of how to use 2to3 transparently in setup.py.
39
40unicode         Tools for generating unicodedata and codecs from unicode.org
41                and other mapping files (by Fredrik Lundh, Marc-Andre Lemburg
42                and Martin von Loewis).
43
44unittestgui     A Tkinter based GUI test runner for unittest, with test
45                discovery.
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48(*) A generic benchmark suite is maintained separately at https://github.com/python/performance
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