Python C

Open-source Python projects categorized as C

Top 23 Python C Projects

  1. kitty

    If you live in the terminal, kitty is made for you! Cross-platform, fast, feature-rich, GPU based.

    Project mention: Forget Claude Code. All you need is Qwen3.8-Flash-Next running locally for agentic coding | dev.to | 2026-10-06

    Terminal/Shell: Kitty/Zsh

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  3. pillow

    Python Imaging Library (fork)

    Project mention: Compressing Images Without Losing Quality: What Actually Works in 2026 | dev.to | 2026-08-22

    Or in Python with Pillow:

  4. omi

    AI that sees your screen, listens to your conversations and tells you what to do

    Project mention: Show HN: Omi – watches your screen, hears conversations, tells you what to do | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-04-15
  5. conan

    Conan - The open-source C and C++ package manager

    Project mention: No way to parse integers in C | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-05-20

    Although vcpkg is probably the most popular, I’m a fan of https://conan.io/

  6. dumb-init

    A minimal init system for Linux containers

    Project mention: Why Your Docker Containers Refuse to Die: The PID 1 Problem | dev.to | 2026-05-10

    For Debian-based images, swap apk add for apt-get install -y tini. There's also dumb-init, which is similar and slightly different in signal-forwarding behavior. Both are fine.

  7. m2cgen

    Transform ML models into a native code (Java, C, Python, Go, JavaScript, Visual Basic, C#, R, PowerShell, PHP, Dart, Haskell, Ruby, F#, Rust) with zero dependencies

  8. codechecker

    CodeChecker is an analyzer tooling, defect database and viewer extension for static and dynamic analyzer tools.

  9. SaaSHub

    SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives

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  10. arl

    lists of most popular repositories for most favoured programming languages (according to StackOverflow)

  11. youtube

    Code from the Engineer Man YouTube channel. Please do not submit pull requests, they will be ignored/closed. The code in the repo needs to remain as it was in the video. (by engineer-man)

  12. the-art-of-debugging

    The Art of Debugging Open Book

  13. compiledb

    Tool for generating Clang's JSON Compilation Database files for make-based build systems.

  14. pyo

    Python DSP module

  15. bottleneck

    Fast NumPy array functions written in C (by pydata)

  16. emerge

    Emerge is a browser-based interactive codebase and dependency visualization tool for many different programming languages. It supports some basic code quality and graph metrics and provides a simple and intuitive way to explore and analyze a codebase by using graph structures.

  17. ShivyC

    C compiler created in Python.

  18. gcovr

    Generate code coverage reports with gcc/gcov

  19. cmake-conan

    CMake wrapper for conan C and C++ package manager

  20. bazel-compile-commands-extractor

    Goal: Enable awesome tooling for Bazel users of the C language family.

  21. emlearn

    Machine Learning inference engine for Microcontrollers and Embedded devices

  22. PipelineC

    PypelineC: A hardware description language (HDL) adding high level synthesis(HLS)-like automatic pipelining as a language construct/compiler feature.

  23. speed-comparison

    A repo which compares the speed of different programming languages.

    Project mention: Data Processing Benchmark Featuring Rust, Go, Swift, Zig, Julia etc. | news.ycombinator.com | 2026-01-31
  24. prometeo

    An experimental Python-to-C transpiler and domain specific language for embedded high-performance computing

  25. awesome-n64-development

    A curated list of Nintendo 64 development resources including toolchains, documentation, emulators, example code, and more

  26. SaaSHub

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NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).

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Index

What are some of the best open-source C projects in Python? This list will help you:

# Project Stars
1 kitty 35,151
2 pillow 13,863
3 omi 13,628
4 conan 9,530
5 dumb-init 7,311
6 m2cgen 2,995
7 codechecker 2,629
8 arl 2,093
9 youtube 1,889
10 the-art-of-debugging 1,729
11 compiledb 1,657
12 pyo 1,454
13 bottleneck 1,182
14 emerge 1,121
15 ShivyC 1,064
16 gcovr 994
17 cmake-conan 930
18 bazel-compile-commands-extractor 913
19 emlearn 763
20 PipelineC 750
21 speed-comparison 749
22 prometeo 654
23 awesome-n64-development 583

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