Top 23 Python Utility Projects

• SAWS

  1 5,204 0.0 Python

  A supercharged AWS command line interface (CLI).

• haxor-news

  5 3,930 1.8 Python

  Browse Hacker News like a haxor: A Hacker News command line interface (CLI).

Project mention: Show HN: Another CLI tool to browse Hacker News | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-11

I built a little CLI tool to browse HN. I wanted a little project I could write so I could brush up on golang. It works pretty okay -- but nowhere near as feature-rich or polished as something like https://github.com/donnemartin/haxor-news

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• graphtage

  12 2,331 8.1 Python

  A semantic diff utility and library for tree-like files such as JSON, JSON5, XML, HTML, YAML, and CSV.

  

Project mention: Pijul: Version-Control Post-Git • Goto 2023 | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-08-11

I'm not familiar with Pijul, and haven't finished watching this presentation, but IME the problems with modern version control tools is that they still rely on comparing lines of plain text, something we've been doing for decades. Merge conflicts are an issue because our tools are agnostic about the actual content they're tracking.

Instead, the tools should be smarter and work on the level of functions, classes, packages, sentences, paragraphs, or whatever primitive makes sense for the project and file that is being changed. In the case of code bases, they need to be aware of the language and the AST of the program. For binary files, they need to be aware of the file format and its binary structure. This would allow them to show actually meaningful diffs, and minimize the chances of conflicts, and of producing a corrupt file after an automatic merge.

There has been some research in this area, and there are a few semantic diffing tools[1,2,3], but I'm not aware of this being widely used in any VCS.

Nowadays, with all the machine learning advances, the ideal VCS should also use ML to understand the change at a deeper level, and maybe even suggest improvements. If AI can write code for me, it could surely understand what I'm trying to do, and help me so that version control is entirely hands-free, instead of having to fight with it, and be constantly aware of it, as I have to do now.

I just finished watching the presentation, and Pijul seems like an iterative improvement over Git. Nothing jumped out at me like a killer feature that would make me want to give it a try. It might be because the author focuses too much on technical details, instead of taking a step back and rethinking what a modern VCS tool should look like today.

[1]: https://semanticdiff.com/

[2]: https://github.com/trailofbits/graphtage

[3]: https://github.com/GumTreeDiff/gumtree

• SafeEyes

  10 1,395 6.4 Python

  Protect your eyes from eye strain using this simple and beautiful, yet extensible break reminder

Project mention: How do you guys take care of your eyes | /r/developersIndia | 2023-07-03

Install Safe Eyes or some similar app. And keep the breaks as strict. So for each interval you have kept, it will forcefully turn off your display for sometime.

• reloading

  5 1,061 0.0 Python

  Change Python code while it's running without losing state

• quicktile

  13 858 6.3 Python

  Adds window-tiling hotkeys to any X11 desktop. (An analogue to WinSplit Revolution for people who don't want to use Compiz Grid)

• cryptoCMD

  6 527 7.0 Python

  Cryptocurrency historical price data library in Python. Data from https://coinmarketcap.com.

Project mention: cryptoCMD: NEW Data - star count:456.0 | /r/algoprojects | 2023-08-08

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• RoboGif

  0 521 0.0 Python

  A small utility to record Android device screen to a GIF

• remarshal

  1 520 8.9 Python

  Convert between CBOR, JSON, MessagePack, TOML, and YAML

  

• unitypackage_extractor

  1 510 0.0 Python

  Extract a .unitypackage, with or without Python

• proximityhash

  1 272 0.0 Python

  Geohashes in proximity

• georaptor

  1 188 4.7 Python

  Python Geohash Compression Tool

Project mention: Show HN: Georaptor – A Python Geohash Compression Tool v3.0.0 | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-04-03

• textinator

  3 169 7.3 Python

  Simple MacOS StatusBar / Menu Bar app to automatically detect text in screenshots

Project mention: TextSnatcher: Copy text from images, for the Linux Desktop | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-03-14

I'm the author of Textinator [1] a similar utility for macOS that uses Apple's Vision framework [2] for doing the OCR natively. Modern versions of macOS have a similar ability to copy text from images directly but Textinator works on macOS back to 10.15 and simplifies the "take screenshot, copy text to clipboard" workflow.

[1] https://github.com/RhetTbull/textinator

• beautifultable

  1 145 0.0 Python

  Python package for printing visually appealing tables on a terminal.

• Scripnix

  8 131 0.0 Python

  Useful Python3 and bash shell scripts for macOS/BSD and *NIX. Useful to me, at any rate. YMMV.

• webfont-kit-generator

  2 118 7.8 Python

  Create @ font-face kits easily

Project mention: The new Google Fonts: find what you’re looking for | news.ycombinator.com | 2023-09-08

There's this phenomenal app for font conversion called Webfont Kit Generator. The feature I like the most is subsetting, which greatly reduces the file size. You might find it useful.

https://github.com/rafaelmardojai/webfont-kit-generator

• generate_life_calendar

  5 120 2.7 Python

  Generate a personalized life calendar poster

Project mention: [Discussion] This last week, for the first time in years, I managed to accomplish everything I set out to do | /r/getdisciplined | 2023-06-11

• wtf

  1 100 10.0 Python

  Whitespace Total Fixer (by dlenski)

• json2xml

  0 95 6.6 Python

  json to xml converter in python3

• github-action-utils

  1 73 1.5 Python

  Collection of python functions that can be used to run GitHub Action Workflow Commands

• ehh

  2 75 5.2 Python

  Commandline tool for remembering linux/terminal commands

• dude

  2 74 8.7 Python

  Duplicates Detector is a cross-platform GUI utility for finding duplicate files, allowing you to delete or link them to save space. Duplicate files are displayed and processed on two synchronized panels for efficient and convenient operation. (by PJDude)

Project mention: Dude v2 Released | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-24

• autocommand

  1 53 0.0 Python

  Autocommand turns a python function into a CLI program

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