using python although all the links provide you with useful resourcesthe "downloads (downloads effbot org)link is the one you should look at first this download site provides you with access to aggdrawa library that helps you create anti-aliased drawings celementtreean add-on to the elementtree library that makes working with xml data more efficient and faster consolean interface for windows that makes it possible to create better console applications effbota collection of useful add-ons and utilitiesincluding the effnews rss news reader elementsoapa library that helps you create simple object access protocol (soapconnections to web services providers elementtidyan add-on to the elementtree library that helps you create nicer-looking and more functional xml tree displays than the standard ones in python elementtreea library that helps you interact with xml data more efficiently than standard python allows exemakera utility that creates an executable program from your python script so that you can execute the script just as you would any other application on your machine ftpparsea library for working with ftp sites grabscreena library for performing screen captures imagingprovides the source distribution to the python imaging library (pilthat lets you add image-processing capabilities to the python interpreter having the source lets you customize pil to meet specific needs pilbinary installers for pilwhich make obtaining good installation for your system easier (there are other pil-based libraries as wellsuch as pilfont - library for adding enhanced font functionality to pilbased application pythondoca utility for creating documentation from the comments in your python code that works much like javadoc squeezea utility for converting your python application contained in multiple files into oneor two-file distribution that will execute as normal with the python interpreter tkinter widget-building library for python that includes number of subproducts widgets are essentially bits of code that create controlssuch as buttonsto use in gui applications there are number of addons for the tkinter librarysuch as wckgraphwhich helps you add graphing support to an application