Must have Python modules?

Martin v. Löwis loewis at informatik.hu-berlin.de
Mon Sep 2 09:42:09 EDT 2002


"Robert Oschler" <Oschler at earthlink.net> writes:

> In C++, which has thousands of libraries, snippets, etc. there were only a
> few that I personally used religiously.  

[...]

> In python I already have two that I'm very find of, Secret Labs
> RegExp module and the xml.dom module.  (And the wonderful WingIDE
> environment for Python development!)

Python is different here; it comes with batteries included. Both SRE
and xml.dom.minidom are part of the standard Python distribution since
2.0.

So if your question includes standard library modules as well: my
absolutely must-have module is "os", followed by "sys".

Regards,
Martin



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