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Top 23 Python Command-line Projects
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Project mention: Hacking Your Own AI Coding Assistant with Claude Pro and MCP | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-19
There are folks using just this filesystem API for coding: https://x.com/Zirkman/status/1897003182049649000
I'm not sure I would prefer it to using Cursor. I was using Claude Desktop client to edit a bunch of (non-code) text files a couple of days ago, and a couple of times it crashed, and I had to restart it. When this happened, it lost some conversation history, although of course the files it had already edited were fine.
There are other approaches to having Claude edit files, but they're less suited for use with MCP (and hence they don't save cost like the OP does).
A) Aider gives very specific instructions about how Claude should describe patch operations: https://github.com/Aider-AI/aider/blob/dd4d2420df51dc29c2aed...
This works, but I don't know if anyone has tried using this technique in an MCP server. It seems like the way OP and the Filesystem MCP might be superior for small edits, but Aider's approach might be better for multiple edits in a single request-response. It should be possible to do this with an MCP server.
B) Anthropic provides fine-tuned models (text_editor_20250124 and text_editor_20241022) that know a specific text editing protocol: https://docs.anthropic.com/en/docs/build-with-claude/tool-us...
You could build a coding assistant like Aider on top of these, but obviously you're then tied to this implementation and it's harder to switch out models. And it wouldn't work with Claude Desktop.
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google-images-download
Python Script to download hundreds of images from 'Google Images'. It is a ready-to-run code!
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jc
CLI tool and python library that converts the output of popular command-line tools, file-types, and common strings to JSON, YAML, or Dictionaries. This allows piping of output to tools like jq and simplifying automation scripts.
Project mention: Show HN: Jb / json.bash – Command-line tool (and bash library) that creates JSON | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-03How is this different to this https://github.com/kellyjonbrazil/jc
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hug
Embrace the APIs of the future. Hug aims to make developing APIs as simple as possible, but no simpler.
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I really like the buku terminal bookmark manager. https://github.com/jarun/buku I like that I can just `man buku` when I don't understand something and I can actually find the answer I'm looking for.
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Repository: jrnl
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Project mention: gpustat VS nviwatch - a user suggested alternative | libhunt.com/r/gpustat | 2024-09-09
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pytermgui
Python TUI framework with mouse support, modular widget system, customizable and rapid terminal markup language and more!
Project mention: 5 Best Python TUI Libraries for Building Text-Based User Interfaces | dev.to | 2024-11-094.Pytermgui Pytermgui Python TUI framework with mouse support, modular widget system, customizable and rapid terminal markup language and more!
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CommandlineConfig
A library for users to write (experiment in research) configurations in Python Dict or JSON format, read and write parameter value via dot . in code, while can read parameters from the command line to modify values. 一个供用户以Python Dict或JSON格式编写（科研中实验）配置的库，在代码中用点.读写属性，同时可以从命令行中读取参数配置并修改参数值。
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awesome-cli-apps-in-a-csv
The largest Awesome Curated list of command line programs (CLI/TUI) with source data organized into CSV files
Project mention: Ask HN: Interesting TUIs (text user interfaces), maybe forgotten ones? | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-05-06I personally love TUI software, you don't have to worry about GUI toolkits, mouse focused interaction, you can run them remotely over SSH, they're often composable, and composability is much easier, and who doesn't like the hackerman aesthetic?
Some things I don't like about modern TUIs is developers getting away from the purpose of them, portability. Often you'll find really beautiful TUIs that require installation of custom fonts for icons and other overcomplicated stuff like that. They can be nice, but generally they sacrifice the practical benefit to a significant degree.
One I discovered yesterday, not really a TUI, more of a shell but still, extremely powerful, is kalc https://github.com/bgkillas/kalc which is a complete scientific and graphing calculator in the terminal. It depends on gnuplot which is unfortunate since that is a GUI program, but there we go with composability again! It's fine and works and does what it needs to, so not really a big deal I guess.
To find more:
https://github.com/rothgar/awesome-tuis
https://github.com/toolleeo/cli-apps
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Project mention: Ergonomic Pyhon Text Piping Solution for Linux Shell with pypyp and uv | dev.to | 2025-01-04
This short blog post is an introduction about a linux text piping solution with pypyp and uv, it can easily reuse all your knowledge and packages about python without learning awk. We focus on telling the reader why choosing it instead of how to use it. If you want to learn more about the usage, visit pypyp's homepage and uv's homepage
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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 Command-line projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | cheat.sh | 39,103 |
| 2 | aider | 29,578 |
| 3 | q | 10,251 |
| 4 | xonsh | 8,678 |
| 5 | google-images-download | 8,612 |
| 6 | jc | 8,095 |
| 7 | hug | 6,875 |
| 8 | buku | 6,655 |
| 9 | jrnl | 6,650 |
| 10 | gpustat | 4,161 |
| 11 | doitlive | 3,478 |
| 12 | ddgr | 3,032 |
| 13 | yq | 2,718 |
| 14 | pytermgui | 2,402 |
| 15 | lookatme | 2,176 |
| 16 | CommandlineConfig | 2,045 |
| 17 | PyInquirer | 1,969 |
| 18 | dotdrop | 1,824 |
| 19 | awesome-cli-apps-in-a-csv | 1,799 |
| 20 | gita | 1,706 |
| 21 | itermplot | 1,497 |
| 22 | pyp | 1,447 |
| 23 | telegram-phone-number-checker | 1,397 |
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