Unsung Python modules

[phil hunt]

On 14 Dec 2001 11:31:56 -0500, Andrew Kuchling <akuchlin at mems-exchange.org> wrote:
>There are some Python modules that deserve to be more widely known
>outside of the Python community, because they're such handy
>timesavers.  My list of modules that don't get enough publicity would
>include:
>
>* The Python Imaging Library, which reads and writes a large number of
>  different image formats and can perform a number of different
>  operations on images.  I find it indispensible for writing little
>  utility scripts that resize all the images in a directory or
>  generate an HTML image gallery.
>
>* Reportlab, for generating PDF files: I can't believe that people
>  would wrestle C code for pdflib when they could just write Python
>  code.
>
>* PyQt/PyKDE, which doesn't seem to get much respect in the KDE
>  community.  (Maybe my perception is wrong?)
>
>* Perhaps also the ZODB, as it's just so neat and convenient to use, 
>  but it's also quite Python-specific.  
>
>What's your favorite unsung module?

I quite like the SPARK parsing framework.

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