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1. watchdog

   1 16 6,715 8.4 Python

   Python library and shell utilities to monitor filesystem events.

   

   Project mention: Dear sir, you have built a compiler (2022) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-11-22

   > A lot of developers really seem to prefer janky, undermaintained third party libraries with huge APIs over a quick home made hack to solve exactly the problem your team has

   Sometimes it’s not even that they’re janky and undermaintained, it’s just the huge and unnecessary API. A good example is watching for file changes. inotify has been around forever, and is easy to reason about. The Python library inotify_simple [0] just wraps that. That’s it. It works extremely well, has no dependencies of its own, and provides nothing else. I once needed this functionality for a project, and had another teammate argue we should use watchdog [1] instead, because it had more stars, and more frequent commits. It took me longer than I thought it would to explain that sometimes, projects are complete and don’t need commits, and that we didn’t need or want any of the additional complexity provided by watchdog.

   Another example is UUID generation. Python doesn’t yet natively do UUIDv7 generation, but if you read their source code and the RFC for UUIDv7, it’s fairly easy to write your own implementation. This was met with “please don’t write your own UUID implementation; use a library.” Baffling.

   [0]: https://github.com/chrisjbillington/inotify_simple

   [1]: https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog

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3. python-magic

   2 3 2,687 6.5 Python

   A python wrapper for libmagic

   

4. PyFilesystem2

   3 7 2,016 0.0 Python

   Python's Filesystem abstraction layer

   

5. nicotine-plus

   4 74 1,886 9.9 Python

   Graphical client for the Soulseek peer-to-peer network

   

   Project mention: MP3 to EXE (1999) | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-15

   Was and still is a goldmine. There's a nice alternate client: https://github.com/Nicotine-Plus/nicotine-plus

6. RecoverPy

   5 22 1,406 9.1 Python

   Interactively find and recover deleted or :point_right: overwritten :point_left: files from your terminal

   

7. telegram-upload

   6 4 1,144 3.0 Python

   Upload and download files from Telegram up to 4 GiB using your account

8. path.py

   7 1 1,109 8.9 Python

   Object-oriented file system path manipulation

   

9. Memacs

   8 20 1,039 2.7 Python

   What did I do on February 14th 2007? Visualize your (digital) life in Org-mode

10. fastparquet

    9 0 801 6.3 Python

    python implementation of the parquet columnar file format.

    

11. CairoSVG

    10 1 786 3.1 Python

    Convert your vector images

    

12. Unipath

    11 0 512 0.0 Python

    An object-oriented approach to Python file/directory operations.

13. File-Injector

    12 4 434 10.0 Python

    File Injector is a script that allows you to store any file in an image using steganography

14. library

    13 19 381 9.8 Python

    90+ CLI tools to build, browse, and blend your media library: an index for your archive. (by chapmanjacobd)

    Project mention: Show HN: CLI tools to build, browse, and blend your media library | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-19

    I think the reason I don't set this in KWin directly is because I want to override the geometry depending on if mpv closed fullscreen [2] or if I'm using lb wt with multiple-playback

    [0]. https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/library/commit/ba5bf174f21a...

    [1]. https://mastodon.social/@[email protected]/110669435048449340

    [2]. https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/computer/blob/main/.config/...

    Maybe there is something else in my mpv config that will help. Feel free to browse it: https://github.com/chapmanjacobd/computer/blob/main/.config/...

15. filetags

    14 13 271 4.1 Python

    Management of simple tags within file names

16. date2name

    15 5 83 4.4 Python

    Handling time-stamps and date-stamps in file names

17. django-s3file

    16 1 79 7.1 Python

    A lightweight file upload input for Django and Amazon S3

18. file-validator

    17 1 68 0.0 Python

    The first Python validation package uses type, mime, extension, magic numbers, and size to validate files. ✅

    

19. fileorganizer

    18 1 54 0.0 Python

    Automatically organizes files in your computer

20. appendfilename

    19 2 50 3.6 Python

    Intelligent appending text to file names, considering file extensions and file tags

21. guess-filename.py

    20 5 47 6.0 Python

    Derive a file name according to old file name cues and/or PDF file content

22. cdir

    21 1 30 10.0 Python

    A faster way to navigate folders and browse files in Windows and Linux shells.

23. tagstore

    22 1 28 1.8 Python

    a research software; a fun way of storing files & folders on your local disk drive; tagging

24. move2archive

    23 2 23 3.2 Python

    Managing event-related files in a folder hierarchy like "<ARCHIVE>/2013/2013-05-17 Event name/"

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