Charm is a Python framework for rapidly prototyping advanced cryptosystems.
Charm has a number of useful features, including support for various mathematical settings, APIs for constructions like digital signature and encryption, and so on.
If you simply want a reliable encryption framework for your app(s), Charm also ships with an array of already implemented cryptosystems.
Kartograph is a Python/JavaScript framework for creating interactive vector maps.
Kartograph’s strong points are:
Overall, Kartograph seems like a good solution for a graphics designer or a data miner. The maps are rendered in typographic quality, so web magazine editors should take a look at this library.
Splinter is an open source tool for web application testing using Pythong.
Splinter is powerful and, at the first glance, simple: the framework provides an easy to use API which interacts with the browser.
For FireFox and Chrome tests, Splinter opens the browser, but zope.testbrowser can be run from the terminal.
Splinter allows for extensive testing as it can execute JavaScript, use mouse events, find elements, and more.
Kotti is an interesting new content management system that runs on Python.
Kotti is by itself rather simple, as even expected features — like a post archive and date publishing — are missing; however, as the CMS was written with extend-ability in mind, Kotti seems legit for a GitHub fork and some work.
The CMS features an interesting permission system, with user permissions being handed to areas of a website instead of specific actions.
Kotti would likely do well to provide more features out of the box. The CMS still provides a solid starting ground, though.
mynt is a Python-based static website generation tool.
mynt allows generating the simplest of blogs.
Its features include generating websites (SASS is supported, too) through any preferred markup, as well as automatic archive page generation.
Overall, mynt seems like a thought-through project–its excellent documentation helps a lot as well.
Camelot is a Python framework for developing desktop applications.
The framework is made for rapid application development, and employs SQLAlchem and Qt to make developing user-friendly applications a pinch easier.
Applications developed with Camelot should be responsive and easy to expand and translate. Of course, everything depends on the developer, but Camelot manages to provide a great environment for fast, structured coding.
16 March, 2012
By Lauris Veips
