This directory contains a number of Python programs that are useful while building or extending Python. audiopy Audiopy is a program to control the Solaris audio device, allowing you to choose both the input and output devices, and to set the output volume, that can be run either as a command-line script, or as a Tkinter application. compiler Tools used to maintain the compiler package in the standard library. faqwiz FAQ Wizard. See http://www.python.org/cgi-bin/faqw.py for a live example. freeze Create a stand-alone executable from a Python program. 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. modulator Interactively generate boiler plate for an extension module. Works easiest if you have Tk. pynche A Tkinter-based color editor. scripts A number of useful single-file programs, e.g. tabnanny.py by Tim Peters, which checks for inconsistent mixing of tabs and spaces, and 2to3, which converts Python 2 code to Python 3 code. unicode Tools used to generate unicode database files for Python 2.0 (by Fredrik Lundh). versioncheck A tool to automate checking whether you have the latest version of a package (by Jack Jansen). webchecker A link checker for web sites. world Script to take a list of Internet addresses and print out where in the world those addresses originate from, based on the top-level domain country code found in the address.