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Mine:
GUI Tool Kit; wxPython
GUI Generator; Boa Constructor

The packages that have been invaluable are;
NumPy & SciPy for digital filtering of collected data
Universal Library (Measurement Computing's name) for Python created by Andrew Straw at CIT for capturing analog data over USB.
Which brings us to cTypes for getting functions directly from DLLs.

Python-MySQLd although development lags new releases (no real P2.5 support yet).

Yours?    Has anybody used stackless yet?

Wow that's a decent set of third party packages.
What kind of software do you develop with all that?
Besides standard library I use only pygresql.
... and "eric 3" IDE for developing.
Do you use Boa IDE?

Currently developing an automated outdoor trails assessment data capture app for my first real customer. Sensors read data that was previously measured by hand and store in db for report generation instead of old hand written reports. Previously built a membership database for our church (that one was done in Tkinter).
I do use Boa as my IDE and I like it a lot. Current version 0.5.2. Still haven't tried the debug tool (I haven't used a debugger in years), but editor, GUI builder (designer) and project management work very well for me.

I see that python finds more and more applications in different areas.
Do you think it might become a universal language?

I've heard a lot about Boa, but never used it.
Is there refactoring capabilities and/or unittest?
I use 'eric3' for big projects and 'vim' for small :)

Hmmm... A universal language... Used for everything from scripting to full GUI apps. I'd say that's pretty universal. I'd like to see Python become more widely used and see it gaining popularity, if that's what you mean. I use Boa Constructor as editor/shell and GUI builder. wxPython (the toolkit that boa is built on) will run under unittest. I do refactoing as a design strategy and wouldn't trust a machine to do that for me.

Well, what I ment is "absolutely universal", so that any application could be written in it.
There are still some areas where python can expand in the future:
1) performance-critical applications and libraries (lapack, blas)
2) kernel programming
3) drivers (I guess certain drivers might be in python)
If anybody will write an efficient python compiler it would be possible  to write almost every application in pure python.
I think that python may also replace javascript in internet browsers sometimes ...

Of course, refactoring is just a big word for that.
In most IDEs refactoring is just an ability to correctly rename a variable (as well as a function, an attribute or a method) so it will be automatically renamed in all the files of the project. This kind of functionality  is different from "replace" because it understands the scope of variable (thus it would not rename other variables with the same name but different scope). It's quite convenient sometimes.

Very good points. javascript seems to be pretty well entrenched. What I've seen in other forums WRT member signup/posting is that Python has a long way to go to just catch up. This MySQL thing (lack of support/integration) has me concerned that the gap may be widening.

Wow! That is a feature that I would use, but hadn't understood existed. Thanks for the explanation.

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