[Tutor] Finding libraries

[Liam Clarke]

Hi Olly,

I'd recommend http://www.python.org/pypi and
http://www.vex.net/parnassus/

Regards,

Liam Clarke

On 10/3/05, Oliver Maunder <lists at olivermaunder.co.uk> wrote:
> Hi all
>
>  I'm pretty new to Python - I've worked through Dive Into Python, but not
> done a lot else. One thing I have realised is that pretty much whatever you
> want to do in Python, someone else has already done it and stuck it in a
> library. My question is, how do you find these libraries.
>
>  Here's an example - I want to write a program that downloads large files
> from a website and stores them in a specified directory - preferably with
> some kind of progress indicator. I'm pretty sure I can do this with urllib,
> sgmllib (or just regular expressions to extract the links), basic python
> file handling, and maybe some threading so I can download more than one file
> at a time. Should be straightforward, but I don't want to do it only to find
> there's a module with a get_file_from_web(url, destination,
> progress_callback) function in it.
>
>  So, what ways are there to find out which modules are out there (other than
> reading this list, which I'm already doing)? Also, does anyone have specific
> suggestions for the program I'm working on?
>
>  Thanks for your help
>
>  Olly
>
>
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