What's the equivalent in Python for Perl's CPAN?

[A.M. Kuchling]

In article <mailman.1013193915.2932.python-list at python.org>, 
	Skip Montanaro wrote:
> People are working on stuff.  Search the list archives for Ciphon.  There
> was a lightning talk presented yesterday about a server called Gideon that's
> supposed to serve up package metadata to tools like Ciphon I think.

Gideon's Web page is at
http://www.zope.org/Members/k_vertigo/Stories/Gideon/FrontPage ; I
don't think there's a running installation on-line.  Kapil demoed it
to David Ascher while I eavesdropped, and it looked quite nice.

--amk                                                  (www.amk.ca)
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