Applications Written in Python

See also:

• AppsWithPythonScripting

• PythonBlogSoftware

• PythonGames

• PythonInMusic

• PythonWikiEngines

• WebApplications

• WellKnownPythonPrograms

3D CAD/CAM

• FreeCAD is an Open Source CAx RAD based on Open Cascade, Qt and Python. It features some key concepts like Macro recording, Workbenches, ability to run as a server and dynamically loadable Application extensions and its designed to be platform independent... [http://free-cad.sourceforge.net/]

• Fandango is planned to be a full featured CAD program. It has a C++ core extensible by scripts. Currently the memory core for entity management is ready, scripting works wonderfully thanks to the ease of embedding and extending of Python. A KDE+XML user interface is now in place, controlling the keyboard and mouse. [http://www.soffernet.com/jaime/fandango/]

• PythonCAD is a CAD package written, surprisingly enough, in Python. The PythonCAD project aims to produce a scriptable, open-source, easy to use CAD package for Linux, the various flavors of BSD Unix, commercial Unix, and other platforms to which someone who is interested ports the program. Work began on PythonCAD in July, 2002, and the first public release was on December 21, 2002. In addition it has been ported to winXP [http://www.pythoncad.org/]

• [http://www.blender.org/ Blender] is the free open source 3D content creation suite, available for all major operating systems under the GNU General Public License. It only uses Python as a scripting language, however.

Audio/Video Applications

• cplay - Curses-based Linux multimedia jukebox [http://www.tf.hut.fi/~flu/cplay/]

• Freevo - Linux multimedia jukebox [http://www.freevo.org]

• TimPlayer - Py-GTK based music player using Gstreamer http://creationix.com/OpenSource/TimPlayer/

• See also ["PythonInMusic"].

Console Applications

• ["IPython"] - An enhanced Interactive Python shell

• See also ["PythonShells"].

Enterprise Applications

• Tiny ERP - A complete ERP & CRM; accouting, stock management, sales, ... see http://tinyerp.org and http://tinyerp.com

• [http://www.picalo.org/ Picalo] - A data analysis toolkit for DBMS-type of data. Includes embedded Python scripting and wxWidgets GUI.

File Formats

• [http://www.dancingbison.com/products.html] - xtopdf - a PDF creation/conversion toolkit

Image Applications

• [http://gnofract4d.sourceforge.net/ Gnofract 4D] - A flexible fractal generation program

• [http://www.goghproject.com/ Gogh] - A PyGTK-based painting program (or image editor) with support for pressure-sensitive tablets/devices

• [http://www.imgseek.net/ imgSeek] - Photo collection manager with content-based search. You simply sketch the image you want to find.

• [http://mayavi.sourceforge.net/ MayaVi] - Scientific visualization program based on VTK

• [http://vpython.org/ VPython] - Navigable 3D animations are produced as side effects of computations, making a normally difficult task exceptionally easy

Internet Applications

• BAOW - A lightweight content manage system based on Python language and SQL database, help you to develop complex web applications. [http://www.baow.org] (Web site seems to be gone)

• BitTorrent - a scalable centralized PeerToPeer application [http://bittorrent.com/]

• Flumotion - Streaming server written on top of Twisted and GStreamer [http://www.fluendo.com/]

• HarvestMan

• Jogger Publishing Assistant - scaled down Jabber client that simplifies publishing weblog entries in Jogger - "Jabber Powered Weblog" [http://jpa.berlios.de/]

• MacTelnet - a Mac OS X terminal program which, as of version 3.1, is partially implemented in Python [http://www.mactelnet.com/]

• Mnet - a scalable decentralized PeerToPeer application [http://www.mnetproject.org/]

• Netusage - A simple script to prevent surprise ISP Traffic Bills [http://www.freenet.org.nz/python/netusage/]

• PSST II - Big Frustration for Big Brother - Encrypted Instant Messaging application [http://www.freenet.org.nz/python/psst/]

• SpamBayes - One of the best anti-spam tools available [http://www.spambayes.org/]

• Spamish Inquisition - Retaliates against spammers by causing their machines to slow to a near-standstill (using RFC831 'incomplete response' messages). [http://www.freenet.org.nz/python/spamishinquisition/]

• TheCircle - a scalable decentralized PeerToPeer application [http://thecircle.org.au/]

• Tribler - a peer-to-peer application written in Python, based on the original BitTorrent client sources [http://www.tribler.org/]

• TwistedMatrix - event-driven networking framework. Supports TCP, UDP, SSL/TLS, multicast, Unix sockets, a large number of protocols (including HTTP, NNTP, SSH, IRC, FTP, and others) [http://www.twistedmatrix.com/]

• z9 - An experimental collaborative search engine. [http://andrers52.dyndns.org:8080/z9]

• Alan Kennedy has compiled a list of [http://xhaus.com/alan/python/proxies.html HTTP proxies] written in Python.

• [http://pypi.python.org/pypi/PyWebRun/ PyWebRun] Python Web Runner - Running Python scripts over HTTP.

• See also ["PythonWikiEngines"] and ["WebApplications"].

Mobile Applications

• [http://wiki.openstreetmap.org/index.php/Pyroute Pyroute] - a GPS-capable mapping/routing application for mobile devices

Office Applications

• faces - Extendible project management software [http://faces.homeip.net]

Personal Information Managers

• BitPim - Cell phone data manipulator. Can sync phonebook, calendar, wallpaper, ring tone, etc. [http://www.bitpim.org/]

• Narval - Personnal Assistants, see [http://www.logilab.org/narval/]

• Task Coach - Your friendly task manager, see [http://www.taskcoach.org/]

• [http://sourceforge.net/projects/wikidpad WikidPad] - a wiki-like notebook application (not web-based)

Science and Education Applications

• [http://PyroRobotics.org Pyrobot] - A complete IDE, set of libraries, simulator, and course materials for exploring robotics in Python. Currently aimed for higher education, but work has begun for use in k-12 as well.

• SimPy - a discrete event, object-oriented, simulation package, [http://simpy.sourceforge.net/]

• PyChem - a multivariate data analysis application for Windows and Unix, including principal components analysis (PCA), partial least squares regression (PLSR) and discriminant analysis (PLS-DA), discrimiant function/canonical correlation analysis (DFA/CVA/CCA), cluster analysis (K-means, HCA), advanced evolutionary methods for variable selection. [http://pychem.sourceforge.net/]

Software Development

• See also ["DevelopmentTools"].

• Bug/issue trackers:

  • [wiki:RoundUp Roundup]

  • [http://trac.edgewall.org/ Trac]

• Build tools:

  • [http://buildbot.sf.net Buildbot] - automated building and testing

  • [http://www.scons.org/ SCons] - software construction tool (comparable to make)

  • [http://freehackers.org/~tnagy/bksys.html Waf] - software construction tool (comparable to autotools, CMake, SCons, ant)

  • See also ["ConfigurationAndBuildTools"].

• Version control:

  • [http://bazaar-vcs.org/ Bazaar] (formerly Bazaar-NG) and [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bazaar_(software) Baz] (formerly Bazaar)

  • [http://www.selenic.com/mercurial/ Mercurial]

  • [http://www.viewvc.org/ ViewVC] (formerly ViewCVS) - a repository browser for CVS and Subversion

  • See ["VersionControl"] for details of version control systems and tools.

• Comparison tools:

  • [http://meld.sourceforge.net Meld : Diff and merge tool]

System Administration Applications

• ["Enomalism"] - The Enomalism Virtualized Management Console (VMC) is a open source web-based systems administrator management tool for XEN hypervisor. Servers with hundreds of multiple isolated virtualized systems can be managed like a standalone server. Enomalism also includes a virtual server creation wizard and templates to facilitate virtualized server configuration, application deployment and centralized software patch management. http://www.enomalism.com

• radiusContext - RADIUS log analysis program (user accounting for ISPs) [http://www.tummy.com/Community/software/radiuscontext]

X-Window Manager

• PLWM - The Pointless Window Manager: a python toolkit for making a wm. It's hostile towards rodents, and ease of configuration is not an objective, not so actively developed, but might be usefull for keyboard-loving hackers. Somebody might even have a use for the code, though PyWM's ideas seem better. [http://plwm.sourceforge.net/]

• PyWM - a small, simple python-programmable X window manager that's packed with features yet very easy to learn and use. [http://pywm.sf.net](More up-to-date), [http://www.freenet.org.nz/python/pywm/index.html]

Unclassified

• Calix - An xwindows gamma calibration tool using Py-GTK and the xgamma command. http://creationix.com/OpenSource/Calix/

• CD-Store - a data cd archiving (indexing) with full search and browse capabilities using a Py-GTK interface http://creationix.com/packages/cdstore.tar.gz

• ruleCore - A reactive event-driven rule engine for event pattern detection [http://www.rulecore.com]

Editorial Notes

The above lists should be arranged in ascending alphabetical order - please respect this when adding new entries. If, as the developer of a listed application, you disagree with the classification of the work, please move it into the appropriate category or create a new category, respecting the ascending alphabetical order of the categories. When specifying release dates please use the format YYYY-MM-DD.