| Guido van Rossum | 04fe492 | 1991-12-24 13:49:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 1 | This directory contains various demonstrations of what you can do with |
| Guido van Rossum | ed49c5e | 1993-10-27 09:29:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 2 | Python. Most demos are grouped sub(sub*)directories according to |
| 3 | required optional built-in modules or specific platform; there is also |
| 4 | a set of generally useful scripts and there are some more-or-less |
| 5 | complete applications. |
| 6 | |
| 7 | classes Some examples of how to use classes. |
| 8 | |
| 9 | ibrowse An Emacs info file browser (uses stdwin). |
| 10 | See also ../doc (the Python library documentation can |
| 11 | be converted to info format). |
| 12 | |
| 13 | md5test Test program for the optional md5 module. |
| 14 | |
| 15 | rpc A set of classes for building clients and servers for |
| 16 | Sun RPC. |
| 17 | |
| 18 | rsa An RSA public-key cryptosystem (needs mpz and md5). |
| Guido van Rossum | 04fe492 | 1991-12-24 13:49:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 19 | |
| 20 | scripts Some useful Python scripts that I put in my bin |
| Guido van Rossum | ed49c5e | 1993-10-27 09:29:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 21 | directory. No optional built-in modules needed. |
| Guido van Rossum | 04fe492 | 1991-12-24 13:49:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 22 | |
| 23 | sockets Examples for the new built-in module 'socket'. |
| 24 | |
| 25 | sgi Demos that only run on Silicon Graphics machines. |
| Guido van Rossum | 9183aaa | 1992-04-13 18:41:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 26 | These require at least one of the optional built-in |
| 27 | modules that only make sense for the SGI, such as |
| Guido van Rossum | ed49c5e | 1993-10-27 09:29:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 28 | 'gl', 'al', and 'sv'. Split in subdirectories |
| Guido van Rossum | 9183aaa | 1992-04-13 18:41:41 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 29 | per subject. |
| Guido van Rossum | 04fe492 | 1991-12-24 13:49:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 30 | |
| 31 | stdwin Demos that use the STDWIN library. Require the 'stdwin' |
| 32 | built-in module. |
| 33 | |
| Guido van Rossum | ed49c5e | 1993-10-27 09:29:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 34 | threads Demos that use the 'thread' module. (Currently these |
| 35 | only run on SGIs, but this may change in the future.) |
| 36 | |
| 37 | www Browsers for CERN's distributed hypertext system |
| 38 | World-Wide Web (one with a stdwin-based user |
| 39 | interface, one for dumb ttys). Also contains a |
| 40 | primitive gopher client and an ftp client. |
| 41 | See also ../doc (the Python library documentation can |
| 42 | be converted to WWW's "HTML" format). |
| 43 | |
| Guido van Rossum | 04fe492 | 1991-12-24 13:49:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 44 | WARNING: many scripts are executable and have a first line saying |
| 45 | |
| Guido van Rossum | ed49c5e | 1993-10-27 09:29:01 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 46 | #! /usr/local/bin/python |
| Guido van Rossum | 04fe492 | 1991-12-24 13:49:29 +0000 | [diff] [blame] | 47 | |
| 48 | This is unlikely to give good results unless you've really installed |
| 49 | the latest version python there. Edit the first line before |
| 50 | installing such scripts; to try them out, you can just say "python |
| 51 | foo.py" or enter python interactively and say "import foo". |