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OpenRPG is a suite of tools for online and tabletop gaming, including some d20 system specific game tools. OpenRPG is open source and is released under GPL.

This 5-page tutorial describes how to grab remote web pages and process them locally in Python. Useful for parsing information off the web.

Ming is a library for generating dynamic SWF ("Flash") movies. It comprises all of the functionality of Flash 4, except for sound events (streaming mp3 is supported, though). The Python wrapper presents the movie components as objects in the Python environment, making programmatic movie generation easy and intuitive. Ming is also now available as a Zope module.

Python Hyperschema is an open source public domain project that creates useful and really cool HTML hypermaps from SQL database schema, consisting of two small PL/SQL files and one Python (or C) source code file. The generated HTML pages have mousover data displays for all foreign keys, hyperlinked to the foreign key tables, as well as a hyperlinked list of all foreign keys pointing to each table and a master index of all tables.

This article illustrates the principle features of the Python language, and then examine the XML processing capabilities of Python.

Redfoot is a framework for distributed RDF-based applications, written in Python. Currently Redfoot includes: an RDF database, a query API for RDF with numerous higher-level query functions, an RDF parser and serializer, a simple HTTP server providing a web interface for viewing and editing RDF, and the beginnings of a peer-to-peer architecture for communication between different RDF databases.

Monty's Postcard Server is an CGI application written in Python that makes putting up a Postcard Server a breeze. The only thing the Admin has to do is to supply the Images. Everything is configurable of cause.

Webware for Python is a suite of software components for developing web-based applications that are multi-threaded, object-oriented and cached. The suite uses well known design patterns such as servlets and server pages (as found in ASP, PHP and JSP). It includes the following components: WebKit that provides Python classes for generating dynamic content from a web-based, server-side application; Python Server Page (or PSP), an HTML document with interspersed Python instructions that are interpreted to generate dynamic content, similar to PHP, ASP and JSP; CGI Wrapper, a CGI script used to execute other Python CGI scripts; WebUtils, a basic set of functions for common web related programming tasks such encoding/decoding HTML, etc.

rwhois.py is a recursive whois module/client for python. It provides your typical whois lookup and the ability to parse records into usable objects. This is a modified version of the whois.py module by Scott Hassan.

MoinMoin is a Python WikiClone, based on PikiPiki. The name MoinMoin is a common German slang expression, "Moin" meaning "Good Morning", and "MoinMoin" being an emphasis, i.e. "A Very Good Morning". The name was obviously choosen for its WikiWikiNess.

viewportfolio is a python program that allows you to track the performance of a stock portfolio you establish in a data file. It pulls quote information from Yahoo! Finance and relies on the Quote.py python module written by Jonathan Corbet (included).

Python is the other scripting language that starts with "P". It was named for Monty Python, the comedy troupe, and references to their skits and films (most commonly to "Spam") appear frequently in Python programs. Highly popular with Linux users and in the open source community in general, Python has a number of advantages over other languages like Java and Perl, some of which will be covered in this article.

LinkChecker is a Python script for checking your HTML documents for broken links. Features include: recursive checking, multithreaded, output can be colored or normal text, HTML, SQL, CSV or a GML sitemap graph, additionally reports download time for HTML pages, HTTP/1.1 and 1.0, HTTPS, FTP, mailto:, Gopher, Telnet and local file links are supported, Javascript links are currently ignored, restrict link checking to your local domain, HTTP proxy support, give username/password for HTTP and FTP authorization, robots.txt exclusion protocol support, and internationalization support.

Oedipus is a collection of classes and modules, written in Python, for maintaining a hierarchical directory of Web links. You can use it to maintain your own collection of links, or you can use the XML dumps produced by the Open Directory Project (ODP).

Python Programming on Win32 is the first book to demonstrate how to use it as a serious Windows development and administration tool. Unlike scripting on Unix, Windows scripting involves integrating a number of components, such as COM or the various mail and database APIs, with the Win32 programming interface. While experienced Windows C++ programmers can find their way through the various objects, most people need some guidance, and this book is it. It addresses all the basic technologies for common integration tasks on Windows, explaining both the Windows issues and the Python code you need to glue things together. Topics covered: Python programming quick-start, Windows Python basics, Python support for COM/DCOM, the Pythonwin editor, Office 2000 scripting, Windows NT administration and system programming, Python MFC programming, and Active Scripting.

The goal of the Python Essential Reference is to concisely describe the Python programming language and its large library of standard modules, collectively known as the Python programming "environment." This informal language reference is arranged into four major parts: a brief tutorial, an introduction to Python; an informal language reference that covers lexical conventions, functions, statements, control flow, datatypes, classes, and execution models; the Python library; and the Python C API used to write Python extensions.

Learning Python is an introduction to the increasingly popular Python programming language -- an interpreted, interactive, object-oriented, and portable scripting language. This book thoroughly introduces the elements of Python: types, operators, statements, functions, modules, and exceptions. It also demonstrates how to perform common programming tasks and write real applications.

WorldPilot is a Python/Zope-based web server application that provides you with a web based organizer and messenger. Main features include: IMAP based web mail client, Contact and Address book, Notes, ToDo's, Calendar with support for repeating events, and Workgroup sharing with broadcasting and subscriptions.

SquishDot is a web-based news publishing and discussion product for ZOPE. It allows you to build a web-based news site along with the capability to handle threaded discussions with a minimum of configuration and day-to-day management.

SICKnotes (Site Inventory, Configuration, and Knowledge) is a permissions-based Web tool that assists with inventory, system changes, contact info, and knowledge for anything from a small startup to a data center. SICKnotes is written in Python and uses a MySQL database for data handling.