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buildbot Batchfiles for running on Windows buildslaves.
-ccbench A Python concurrency benchmark.
+ccbench A Python threads-based concurrency benchmark. (*)
demo Several Python programming demos.
@@ -17,13 +17,13 @@ i18n Tools for internationalization. pygettext.py
and msgfmt.py generates a binary message catalog
from a catalog in text format.
-iobench Benchmark for the new Python I/O system.
+iobench Benchmark for the new Python I/O system. (*)
msi Support for packaging Python as an MSI package on Windows.
parser Un-parsing tool to generate code from an AST.
-pybench Comprehensive Python benchmarking suite.
+pybench Low-level benchmarking for the Python evaluation loop. (*)
pynche A Tkinter-based color editor.
@@ -32,6 +32,9 @@ scripts A number of useful single-file programs, e.g. tabnanny.py
tabs and spaces, and 2to3, which converts Python 2 code
to Python 3 code.
+stringbench A suite of micro-benchmarks for various operations on
+ strings (both 8-bit and unicode). (*)
+
test2to3 A demonstration of how to use 2to3 transparently in setup.py.
unicode Tools for generating unicodedata and codecs from unicode.org
@@ -40,3 +43,6 @@ unicode Tools for generating unicodedata and codecs from unicode.org
unittestgui A Tkinter based GUI test runner for unittest, with test
discovery.
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+(*) A generic benchmark suite is maintained separately at http://hg.python.org/benchmarks/