[Tutor] where is CPAN for python?

[Danny Yoo]

On Sat, 15 Sep 2001, Kirby Urner wrote:
>
> Anyway, options to consider (I have no idea what CPAN
> is -- another warning that this may be off-topic).

It's not really off-topic; it's a common question that comes up from
people who come from Perl to Python.


CPAN is the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network:

    http://cpan.org

and it's a distributed library of Perl modules.  No illusions: at the
moment, it puts the Vaults of Parnassus at

    http://www.vex.net/parnassus/

to shame.  CPAN is mirrored all over the world, and it's very powerful.


CPAN is a Good Idea, and one that Pythonistas are eager to adopt.  Toward
this end, people are organizing around the "Catalog" Special Interest
Group (SIG):

    http://www.python.org/sigs/catalog-sig/

I just hope I see the fruits of their labours in a couple of years.  
*grin*