Python equivalent of CPAN (Was: ANY NEWS ON THE STARSHIP?)

[roger day]

I quite like the idea of CPAN for Python, but I find the perl CPAN difficult at
times to find the precise elements I needed to do something. Worse, the
modularisation of Perl had, for me, the unintended side-effect of splitting out
much needed modules. For example, the "old" lwp.pl package now consists of a
myriad of different modules which need hunting down if I just wanted to do
something simple, particularly on Unix. The ActiveState perl does a lot of this
already - batteries included.

It's not modularisation I dislike, I think it's the way of distributing the
modules which needs looking at - and not just for ease of installation.

I think there should be some way of grouping modules, so that, say, if one
module needed others to work, then the latter should be loaded and installed at
the same time. Or something like that :-)

"Roland Mas" <mas at echo.fr> wrote in message
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> Miles R. Fidelman (2000-10-24 13:34:12 +0000) :
>
> > it's even easier than that, if you have the cpan module installed:
> > perl -MCPAN -e shell

Roger.