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Ongoing Python-Based Projects
Here is an informal collection of links to ongoing
Python-related projects going on around the net. By spreading
the word of ongoing projects, we hope to reduce duplicated
effort and promote cross-pollination of those efforts and the
ideas on which they're based. See also the PSA Special Interest Groups, formally
organized channels for ongoing Python development projects in
specific topic areas.
If you have a project that you would like to see listed here,
please drop us a line at webmaster@python.org.
(You probably also want to check the Contributed resources doc, for
clues to in-process efforts that have not specifically been
mentioned to us as ongoing projects.)
- Mailman
(last update 11-Feb-2000)
- Mailman is a mailing list manager, written primarily in
Python, providing all the usual list management features.
Most interactions with Mailman can be performed over the Web
by both users and list administrators.
- ILU (ongoing)
- ILU (it's spelled Inter-Language Unification but it's
pronounced eye-loo) is a (very) CORBA-ish multi-language
object interface system. It currently has bindings for Common
Lisp, C++, ANSI C, Modula-3 and Python.
- High performance threading
(Greg Stein,
last update 13-Jan-1997)
- Greg is working on a set of patches to make Python fully
reentrant in a threaded environment. In addition, this
removes the "global interpreter lock" that is present in the
standard distribution. The end result should be a version of
Python that is capable of much higher performance for threaded
applications.
The current set of patches are available for application
against Python 1.4 sources. Warning: they are not for the
weak at heart! :-)
A README is also available for more information.
- Wily/Python
interface (Gary Capell, last
update: 4/4/96)
- Wily is a text editor/programming environment which
emulates Acme from
Plan 9. There is no extension language built into the editor,
but there is a messaging interface to allow other programs to
create and modify text windows and respond to events in those
windows. It is hoped that Wily and Python will be at least as
useful a combination as EMACS and Lisp.
- Python Imaging Library (Fredrik Lundh,
last Update: 4/11/96)
- The Python Imaging Library adds an image object to your Python
interpreter. You can load image objects from a variety of file
formats, and apply a rich set of image operations to them. See also
the Image-SIG.
- Ray Tracer Scene Definition Language (Paul Tuckfield, last
update: 4/10/96)
- Paul is hooking a ray tracer he's writing in C++ up with
Python.
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Molecular Modelling Toolkit (Konrad Hinsen, last
update: 2/13/97)
- The Molecular Modelling Toolkit (MMTK) is an ongoing
project aiming at the development of a code library for all
aspects of molecular modelling. It consists mainly of
Python modules, with a few C extension modules for
time-critical calculations (e.g. force field evaluation).
- Windows and DOS Ports (Mark Hammond, Jim
Ahlstrom, Last update: 4/11/96)
- For more information, see the PythonWin-SIG and the respective
pages maintained by Mark and Jim:
- Mark Hammond's PythonWin
(Windows only)
- Jim Ahlstrom's WPY
(Windows and DOS).
- Macintosh Port (Jack
Jansen, Guido van Rossum, Last update: 4/11/96)
- Jack is continuously improving the Python Macintosh port,
especially the PPC version. His latest work can generally be
found at ftp.cwi.nl in /pub/jack/python/mac,
although part of it is also mirrored on ftp.python.org. See also the pythonmac-SIG
(moderated by Jack). Guido occasionally helps out with the
68K port.
- X11 Motif/Xt Extension (Sjoerd Mullender, last update:
4/11/96)
- Sjoerd is maintaining an extension module that links
Python to the Motif toolkit, or (with a little work) to any
other X11 toolkit that uses the Xt Intrinsics library. The
latest release can be found on ftp.cwi.nl.
- Basic Universe Simulator (Joseph Strout, last update:
4/26/96)
- Joseph has provoked some attention to using python for
gaming, to stimulate the interest of kids and other playful
folk. He quickly developed a gaming engine to play with,
BUS.
- Extension
Classes - a mechanism for making Python extension
types more class-like (Jim
Fulton, Digital Creations, last update: 9/99)
- Using this mechanism, classes can be developed in an
extension language, such as C or C++, and the resulting
objects can be treated like other python classes:
- They can be subclassed in python,
- They provide access to method documentation strings, and
- They can be used to directly create new instances.
Extension classes provide support for extended method
binding protocols to support additional method types and
additional method call sematics.
- MESS Meta-Extension System Set -
reconciling Python objects and object types (Donald
Beaudry, David
Ascher, last update: 6/7/96)
- By establishing Python builtin types as abstract classes,
MESS enables you to inherit from and extend builtin types
within native Python. Ie, you can extend the
primitive Python types, like integers, strings, lists, etc.,
as well as any extension types you've created in C,
C++, etc.
This is a work-in-progress, with much of the coding effort
done, but much documentation to be done...
- BSCW Shared
Workspace System (Richard Bentley, last
update Nov-1996)
- The Basic Support for Cooperative Work group at GMD in Germany has implemented
a shared workspace server for the web as a collection of
Python CGI scripts.
- Python port to Novell NetWare
(Jim Duke, last update
18-Dec-1996)
- Jim is working on a port of Python to Novell NetWare,
which he intends to make available to the net. He's
interested in input, and is happy to provide info on request...
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Chautauqua
(Carlos Maltzahn,
last update 13-Oct-1996)
- Chautauqua is a client server workflow system implemented
almost entirely in Python. It uses Paos (Python active object server) as a server, a web
server extended by Python CGI programs and various
(interactive and non-interactive) Python clients.
- PyMaker
(Ulrich Herold,
last update 14-May-1997)
- Ulrich is developing a Python / FrameMaker Interface,
which embeds almost all FrameMaker-Api-Calls in a Python
interpreter. This Python interpreter is a FrameMaker-Api-client
called "PyMaker". The "brain work" is already done and some
FrameMaker-Api-clients are on their way to be developed and
released in june 1997. Some information can be seen at
http://home.t-online.de/home/PyMaker
- Alice
- Alice is an interactive 3D graphics package originally
developed at the University of Virginia, and under continuing
development at Carnegie Mellon University. The goal of Alice
is to make 3D graphics easy to learn and use. Python provides
interactivity and clean syntax so even novice computer users
can be successful and have fun with Alice. Alice for Windows
95 is available FREE from The Alice Home Page.
(It was originally
released at U.VA. in the Fall of 1996.)
- PythonWorks
- PythonWorks is the first commercially available IDE and
RAD tool
for Python containing a combined editor/browser with syntax
highlightning as well as a layout editor. Future versions will
contain version control support, uiToolkit etc. PythonWorks will be
available for Windows, Linux (Red Hat and Suse) and Solaris.
Interested developers may download a free, time
limited evaluation copy at
http://www.pythonware.com/products/works/testdrive.htm.
More information is available at
http://www.pythonware.com.
Contact information:
info@pythonware.com
- COAS
- Caldera, a prominent
Linux distribution and development company, is developing the
Caldera Open Administration
System (COAS), to provide a comprehensive and coherent
framework for implementation of Linux system administration
mechanisms. Among other things, COAS is designed to provide a
plug-in framework for administrative-task modules which are
written in Python or C++ (or both).
- Mnemonic
Mediator
- MMediator, a substantial GNU-styled freeware
project, "will be a powerful, portable groupware framework". It
is based out of an academic environment, and claims to integrate
Python "for Core Development".
- Adonthell
- Together with the RPG engine, a small demo game is available:
Waste's Edge. Due to the early state of the engine it resembles an
Adventure game rather than a RPG, but it is fully playable and should
keep you busy for an afternoon at least. Have a look at some screenshots
first, then download.
The main purpose of this release is to attract new programmers,
artists and writers in order to shorten the time until the next
version. So if you have experience in C++ (and optionally Python), or
if you are good at computer graphics or writing we would like to hear
from you. Please have a look at our development
site for further details.
- VPython
- VPython consists of Python, plus the Visual module created by
David Scherer, plus an enhanced version of IDLE for rapid edit/run
cycles. Even those who have never written a program before are able
after just an hour or two of instruction to produce navigable
real-time 3D animations under program control. Free download from http://vpython.org.
- radiusContext
- radiusContext is a system for generating reports on dial-in user
activity. It takes RADIUS accounting logs and generates per-user and
overall usage statistics including time on-line, number of sessions, data
transferred, reason for disconnect, and more... It is designed to be able
to handle multi-gigabyte or larger log-files on modest computers.
- imgSeek
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imgSeek is a photo collection manager and viewer with content-based search
and many other features. The query is expressed either as a rough sketch
painted by the user or as another image you supply (or an image in your
collection). The searching algorithm makes use of multiresolution wavelet
decomposition of the query and database images.
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