[Cialug] Tasks for learning shell scripting

[Matthew Nuzum]

On Wed, Sep 29, 2010 at 1:39 PM, Daniel A. Ramaley
<daniel.ramaley at drake.edu> wrote:
> Just curious, what is the Python equivalent of CPAN, and how much is
> comparatively available, and how well does it work? I'd like to learn
> Python and if i can get lots of modules easily, that would help.
>

PyPi:
http://pypi.python.org/pypi

It's more of a listing than an archive. I think of it as a reference
tool and when I want to do something I usually start at Google and end
up on PyPi. When you find something you like you download it, untar it
and do python setup.py install to get it going.

Or, once you know that the package does what you want you search your
package manager for it.

The other day I went through this process for sphinx because the
packaged version was too new and I needed an older version to build
the Django documentation.

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