[hemmerling] Python 9/10 - Modules & Frameworks

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• Python 1/10.
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• Python 6/10 - Education in Python.
• Python 7/10 - Organisations, Conferences, Barcamps & Events.
• Python 8/10 - IDEs & GUI Designers.
• Python 10/10 - Web Application Frameworks.
• ERP 2/2 - The OpenSource ERP Systems "TinyERP" / "OpenERP" / "Odoo" and the Fork "Tryton".
• Scripting Programming Languages for Unix / Linux and Windows.

• Beautiful Soup.
• PyPI "beautifulsoup4 4.9.3".
• EN.Wikipedia "Beautiful Soup (HTML parser)", DE.Wikipedia "Beautiful Soup" - “A Python package for parsing HTML and XML documents. It creates a parse tree for parsed pages that can be used to extract data from HTML, which is useful for web scraping”.

• SourceForge "ppySerial", SourceForge "ppySerial".
• SourceForge "PyVISA", SourceForge "PyVISA" - “Python GPIB etc. support with PyVISA”.

• HTMLParser — Simple HTML and XHTML parser for Python.

• DZONE "How to Submit a Web Form in Python".
  • The first example with urllib, urllib2 and “urllib2.urlopen(url, data)” didn´t work for me, with Python2
• Mouse vs. Python "Python 101: How to submit a web form".
  • The example with urllib, urllib2 and “urllib2.urlopen(fullurl)” works for me, with Python2
  • DuckDuckGo ( HTML formular ).

• GitHub "python-mechanize / mechanize".
• ReadTheDocs "mechanize" - “Stateful programmatic web browsing in Python. Browse pages programmatically with easy HTML form filling and clicking of links”.
• Javascript parsing is not supported .

• Python 2 Documentation "The Python Standard Library / 20. Internet Protocols and Support / 21.19. SimpleHTTPServer — Simple HTTP request handler".
• “python -m SimpleHTTPServer 8080” → localhost:8080.

• See Testing.

• GitHub "pyppeteer / pyppeteer" - “Unofficial Python port of puppeteer JavaScript (headless) chrome/chromium browser automation library”.
• GitHub.io "Pyppeteer’s documentation".
• PyPI "pyppeteer" - “Differences between puppeteer and pyppeteer. pyppeteer strives to replicate the puppeteer API as close as possible, however, fundamental differences between Javascript and Python make this difficult to do precisely”.

• Toptal "Web Scraping with a Headless Browser: A Puppeteer Tutorial".

• SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL toolkit and Object Relational Mapper, Bitbucket "SQLAlchemy".

• Python with Excel- Working with Excel Files in Python - Python packages “xlrd”, “xlwt”, “xlutils”
  • Github "python-excel".
  • Lingfo Pty Ltd.
  • Simplistix Ltd..
    • Simplistix Ltd. "Software / xlutils".
    • Simplistix Ltd. "The xlrd Module".
    • Simplistix Ltd. "Chris Withers with help from John Machin: Working with Excel files in Python. EuroPython 2009, Birmingham" ( PDF ).
  • Python pypi "xlrd".
  • Python pypi "xlwt".
  • Python pypi "xlutils", Pythonhosted "xlutils documentation".
  • npmjs "xlrd-parser. High performance Excel file parser based on the xlrd library from www.python-excel.org".
• Marc Hammond: Python Programming on Win32.
  • Python Programming on Win32.
  • SourceForge "Python for Windows extensions".
  • With the Python 2.7.6 distributions “Python(x,y)” and “Anaconda 1.91” on Windows, the pywin32-218 installer exits with the error message:

close failed in file object destructor:
sys.excepthook is missing
lost sys.stderr

• artemrudenko "Python: Reading Excel using xlrd library".
• Anthony DeBarros "Get JSON from Excel using Python, xlrd".
• Bytes "Importing xlrd".
• Chapman University - School of Computational Sciences - Bioinformatics "Reading Excel files with Python".
• Coding Tutorials Blog "Python & Excel (xlrd & xlwt)".
• DaniWeb "Using an Excel Spreadsheet as an Argument for a Python".
• Geomagic "How can I interact with Microsoft Excel with Python?".
  • “Simple implementation within the GPSE using Qualify, Qualify Probe, Wrap or Studio: PythonExcel.zip”.
• Clay Gerrard, thoughts by clayg "get dates from excel with python xlrd".
• Herikstad Solutions "Installing xlrd module in Portable Python".
• Hanser Update, Bernd Klein "Artikelreihe Python 3: Excel-Dateien von Python lesen".
• Numbergrinder "Pulling data from Excel using Python, xlrd".
• Ramblings "Python Excel file reader".
  • scienceoss.com. Useful tidbits for using open source software in science "Read Excel files from Python".

• The OpenSource library Kivy - “For rapid development of applications that make use of innovative user interfaces, such as multi-touch apps”, “Open source Python library for rapid development of applications that make use of innovative user interfaces, such as multi-touch apps”, “Kivy is running on Linux, Windows, MacOSX, Android and IOS. You can run the same code on all supported platforms” #.
• Kivy User's Guide - free online HTML book and free PDF book.
• Kivy "Kivy on Android".
• Kivy "Create a package for Android".
  • Template Kivy "kivy/python-for-android", ReadTheDocs "Python for Android".
  • Generic Python packager for Android GitHub "kivy/buildozer".
  • Kivy "Programming Guide » Create a package for Android".
  • Kivy "Programming Guide / The Kivy Android Virtual Machine".
  • Google Play "Kivy Launcher".
• EN.Wikipedia "Kivy", DE.Wikipedia "Kivy".

• Python Wiki"Tkinter" - “Python's de-facto standard GUI (Graphical User Interface) package. It is a thin object-oriented layer on top of Tcl/Tk.
• Tkinter Wiki.
• EN.Wikipedia "Tkinter", DE.Wikipedia "Tkinter".

• The Python Standard Library > 24. Graphical User Interfaces with Tk > "24.5. turtle — Turtle graphics for Tk".
  • The package “turtle” is usually included in Python distributions. However, it can´t be updated by well-known automatic installation processes. An installation attempt by “easy_install turtle” is aborted due to syntax errors in downloaded Python files and other faults

• EN.Wikipedia "wxPython", DE.Wikipedia "wxPython".
• wxPython - “A blending of the wxWidgets C++ class library with the Python programming language”.
  • Wiki wxPython Wiki.
    • wxPython Wiki "How to learn wxPython".

• PyGTK: GTK+ for Python.
  • PyGObject Reference Manual.
• GNOME Live "PyGObject".
• ReadTheDocs "The Python GTK+ 3 Tutorial".
• Florian Diesch "Python and Glade (German). Programmieren mit Python und Glade".
• EN.Wikipedia "PyGTK", DE.Wikipedia "PyGTK".

• The QT project.
  • See Software Frameworks.

• PySide.
• Python Package Index "PySide".
• GitHub "PySide", GitHub.io "PySide documentation".
• Gitorious "Qt by Nokia / PySide" - “LGPL Qt bindings for Python and related tools for binding generation”.
• QT Project Download "Pyside" for Python 2.x and Python 3.x.
• QT Project Wiki "PySide".
  • Qt Project "Building PySide on Microsoft Windows".
  • Qt Project "Installing Qt for Windows".
• ZetCode "PySide tutorial".
• I was told by experts, that PySide is shipped with a script to convert the GUI designer files ( ”.ui” ), designed with the “QT Creator” tool of the standard QT distribution, to Python code .

• PyQT is included in the Python distribution Google Code "pythonxy. Scientific-oriented Python Distribution based on Qt and Spyder". The distribution is shipped with the GUI designer “QT Designer”. The shipped edition of “QT Designer” has a menu option to convert the GUI designer files ( ”.ui” ) to Python code .
• Riverbank Computing Limited "PyQt".
• Tutorials:
  • GitHub "OldAl/tuts4pyside" - “Tuts for PySide”.
  • Alex Fedosov "Tutorial: Creating GUI Applications in Python with QT" ( “PyQT Tutorial” ).

• FLTK → See Software Frameworks.

• Attic, GitHub "jborg/attic" - “A deduplicating backup program written in Python. The main goal of Attic is to provide an efficient and secure way to backup data”.
• GitHub "Borg Backup", GitHub.io "Borg Backup", ReadTheDocs "Borg Documentation" - “Deduplicating backup program with compression and authenticated encryption”.
• GitHub.io "bup", GitHub "bup" - “Very efficient backup system based on the git packfile format, providing fast incremental saves and global deduplication (among and within files, including virtual machine images)”.

• GitHub "witten/atticmatic" - “A simple wrapper script for the Attic/Borg backup software that creates and prunes backups”.

• The OpenSource LLVMPY - “A Python wrapper around the LLVM C++ library which allows simple access to compiler tools”.
• Tigris.org "Python SVN Extension and WorkBench GUI" ( psyvn ) - “The pysvn project's goal is to enable Tools to be written in Python that use Subversion”.
• The OpenSource Github "slashmili / PySQLiteGUI", a GUI for the database SQLite.
• The OpenSource Scapy in Python, for Linux - “A powerful interactive packet manipulation program”.
  • UTScapy: Unit Testing with Scapy.
• The OpenSource HTML parser BeautifulSoup - “A Python library designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping”.
  • The OpenSource lxml - XML and HTML with Python.
  • The OpenSource Google Code "html5lib - Library for working with HTML documents".
• Google Code.
  • Google Code "google-api-python-client. Google APIs Client Library for Python".
  • Google Code "gdata-python-client. Google Data APIs Python Client Library".
  • Google Code "python-twitter. A python wrapper around the Twitter API", Github "bear / python-twitter".
  • Google Code "python-for-android. Py4A", Google Code "android-scripting Scripting. Layer for Android brings scripting languages to Android".
  • Google Code "pysphere. vSphere SDK for python".
  • Google Code "GAE framework - Python web framework for Google App Engine".
  • Google Code "h5py. A Python interface to the HDF5 library".
• Mark Hammond "Python for Windows Extensions", Sourceforge "Python for Windows extensions", Sourceforge "Python for Windows extensions" #.
• The online service IBM Internet of Things Foundation.
  • Blog IBM Developer Blog "IoT Foundation".
  • GitHub "ibm-messaging" - “Community around IBM Messaging products”.
    • GitHub "ibm-messaging/iot-python" - “Client libraries and samples for connecting to the IBM Internet of Things Foundation using Python 2.7 or 3.4”.
• NumFOCUS - Numpy Foundation for Open Code for Usable Science.
  • NumFOCUS - Numpy Foundation for Open Code for Usable Science "Projects".
    • NumPy.
      • EN.Wikipedia "NumPy", DE.Wikipedia "NumPy".
    • SciPy.
      • EN.Wikipedia "SciPy", DE.Wikipedia "SciPy".
    • Matplotlib, SourceForge "Matplotlib", SourceForge "matplotlib".
      • EN.Wikipedia "Matplotlib".
    • Python Data Analysis Library ( pandas ).
      • GItHub "panda s/ doc / cheatsheet / Pandas_Cheat_Sheet.pdf".
      • EN.Wikipedia "pandas (software)".
• BItBucket "openpyxl", ReadTheDocs "openpyxl - A Python library to read/write Excel 2007 xlsx/xlsm files".
• “PIL” / “Pillow”.
  • Secret Labs AB - PythonWare.
    • The OpenSource Secret Labs AB - PythonWare: "Python Imaging Library (PIL)" for Python 2.7.
    • Fredrik Lundh "The Python Imaging Library Handbook".
  • Github "Python-imaging.github.io - Python Imaging".
    • Github "python-imaging/Pillow" - “Pillow is the 'friendly' PIL fork”.
• Pocoo.
  • Pocoo "Werkzeug" - “The Python WSGI Utility Library”.
  • Pocoo "Jinja2" - “A full featured template engine for Python”.
• Pygame - “A set of Python modules designed for writing video games”.
  • PyGame "Pygame Tutorials. Camera Module Introduction" - “Note: As of Pygame 1.9, the camera module offers native support for cameras that use v4l2 on Linux. There is support for other platforms via Videocapture or OpenCV”.
  • EN.Wikipedia "Pygame", DE.Wikipedia "Pygame".
• RPyC.
  • GitHub "tomerfiliba/rpyc".
  • SourceForge "RPyC (remote python call)", SourceForge "RPyC (remote python call)".
  • Python Package Index "rpyc".
  • ReadTheDocs "RPyC - Transparent, Symmetric Distributed Computing".
  • EN.Wikipedia "RPyC".
• The OpenSource Scrapy, Github "Scrapy" - “Fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework, used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated testing”.
  • Blog Scrapy Blog.
  • Twitter "Scrapy".
• SourceForge.
  • SourceForge "mechanize", SourceForge "mechanize", SourceForge "Python bits", Github "jjlee / mechanize" - “Stateful programmatic web browsing in Python, after Andy Lester’s Perl module WWW::Mechanize”.
  • Sourceforge "Pmw - Python megawidgets", Sourceforge "Python megawidgets".
  • Sourceforge "Python for .NET", Sourceforge "Python for .NET" - “An integration of the C Python engine with the .NET runtime”.
• The OpenSource “Spring Python”.
  • Spring Python - “Spring Python is an offshoot of the Java-based Spring Framework and Spring Security, targeted for Python”.
  • SpringSource Community "Spring Python".
• The OpenSource GitHub "statsmodels", Statsmodels - Statistics in Python.
  • ARIMA.
    • Experts told me that ARIMA is suitable to handle time series data with time unsteadiness.
    • Machine Learning Mastery.
    • Machine Learning Mastery "How to Create an ARIMA Model for Time Series Forecasting with Python" - “ARIMA is an acronym that stands for AutoRegressive Integrated Moving Average. It is a class of model that captures a suite of different standard temporal structures in time series data”.
    • Machine Learning Mastery "How to Save an ARIMA Time Series Forecasting Model in Python".
      • “The Autoregressive Integrated Moving Average Model, or ARIMA, is a popular linear model for time series analysis and forecasting”.
      • “The statsmodels library provides an implementation of ARIMA for use in Python”.
    • Medium "Using Python and Auto ARIMA to Forecast Seasonal Time Series".
• SourceForge "VideoCapture - A Win32 Python Extension for Accessing Video Devices (e.g. a USB WebCam, a TV-Card, ...)", SourceForge "VideoCapture".
  • SourceForge "VideoCapture" - "VideoCapture.py".
• Werkzeug - The Python WSGI Utility Library.
  • WSGI.org.

• OpenDirectory "Top: Computers: Programming: Languages: Python.
• OpenDirectory "Top: World: Deutsch: Computer: Programmieren: Sprachen: Python".