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This directory contains a number of Python programs that are useful
while building or extending Python.

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buildbot        Batchfiles for running on Windows buildslaves.
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ccbench         A Python concurrency benchmark.

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demo            Several Python programming demos.
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freeze          Create a stand-alone executable from a Python program.
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gdb             Python code to be run inside gdb, to make it easier to
                debug Python itself (by David Malcolm).

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i18n            Tools for internationalization. pygettext.py
                parses Python source code and generates .pot files,
                and msgfmt.py generates a binary message catalog
                from a catalog in text format.

iobench         Benchmark for the new Python I/O system.

msi             Support for packaging Python as an MSI package on Windows.

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parser          Un-parsing tool to generate code from an AST.

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pybench         Comprehensive Python benchmarking suite.
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pynche          A Tkinter-based color editor.
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scripts         A number of useful single-file programs, e.g. tabnanny.py
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                by Tim Peters, which checks for inconsistent mixing of
                tabs and spaces, and 2to3, which converts Python 2 code
                to Python 3 code.
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test2to3        A demonstration of how to use 2to3 transparently in setup.py.
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unicode         Tools for generating unicodedata and codecs from unicode.org
                and other mapping files (by Fredrik Lundh, Marc-Andre Lemburg
                and Martin von Loewis).
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unittestgui     A Tkinter based GUI test runner for unittest, with test
                discovery.