1This directory contains a number of Python programs that are useful
2while building or extending Python.
3
4buildbot        Batchfiles for running on Windows buildbot workers.
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6ccbench         A Python threads-based concurrency benchmark. (*)
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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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26peg_generator   PEG-based parser generator (pegen) used for new parser.
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28scripts         A number of useful single-file programs, e.g. tabnanny.py
29                by Tim Peters, which checks for inconsistent mixing of
30                tabs and spaces, and 2to3, which converts Python 2 code
31                to Python 3 code.
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33stringbench     A suite of micro-benchmarks for various operations on
34                strings (both 8-bit and unicode). (*)
35
36unicode         Tools for generating unicodedata and codecs from unicode.org
37                and other mapping files (by Fredrik Lundh, Marc-Andre Lemburg
38                and Martin von Loewis).
39
40unittestgui     A Tkinter based GUI test runner for unittest, with test
41                discovery.
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44(*) A generic benchmark suite is maintained separately at https://github.com/python/performance
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46Note: The pynche color editor has moved to https://gitlab.com/warsaw/pynche
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