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Top 23 Python Filesystem Projects
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Project mention: Shunpo: Minimalist bash tool to make directory navigation a little bit faster | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-01-26
I never used pushd and popd. Did not even know about them. But I use autojump it give directories a prioroty numbers and then you just have to type "j pro" and you cd into your projects folder for example.
https://github.com/wting/autojump
just looked at it again it also has a jc comment do and commands to open file explorer that I never used.
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DiskCache
Python disk-backed cache (Django-compatible). Faster than Redis and Memcached. Pure-Python.
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Project mention: Veles: Open-source tool for binary data analysis | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-25
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Project mention: Watchfiles: Simple, modern and fast file watching for Python, written in Rust | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-07-08
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ratarmount
Access large archives as a filesystem efficiently, e.g., TAR, RAR, ZIP, GZ, BZ2, XZ, ZSTD archives
Project mention: Apache iceberg the Hadoop of the modern-data-stack? | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-03-06https://github.com/mxmlnkn/ratarmount
> fsspec support:
To use all fsspec features, either install via pip install ratarmount[fsspec] or pip install ratarmount[fsspec]. It should also suffice to simply pip install fsspec if ratarmountcore is already installed. The optional fsspec integration is threefold:
Files can be specified on the command line via URLs pointing to remotes as explained in this section.
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Stream
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Project mention: Started a guide to writing FUSE filesystems in Python | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-10-11
The API documentation can be referenced at https://github.com/libfuse/python-fuse
It doesn't seem to be a complex interfac
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snapper-gui
GUI for snapper, a tool for Linux filesystem snapshot management, works with btrfs, ext4 and thin-provisioned LVM volumes
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Networking-Guide
A Networking Guide for getting started with basic/core network components such as wired and wireless network design, configuration, hardware, protocols, security, backup, recovery, and virtualization.
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python-task-queue
Asynchronous serverless task queue with timed leasing of tasks. Threaded implementations for SQS and local filesystem.
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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).
Python Filesystem discussion
Python Filesystem related posts
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Blazeio.SharpEvent: A Python Async Primitive That Scales to 1M Waiters with O(1)
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Started a guide to writing FUSE filesystems in Python
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Autojump: A CD command that learns
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Targeted balance to free up chunks that are unallocatable because of unbalanced allocations
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Cache AnyThing filesystem written in Rust
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AWS Announces Open Source Mountpoint for Amazon S3
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Troubleshooting Help Wanted: Slow writes during intra-pool transfers on raidz2
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Filesystem projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | autojump | 16,592 |
| 2 | DiskCache | 2,571 |
| 3 | unblob | 2,331 |
| 4 | watchfiles | 2,101 |
| 5 | PyFilesystem2 | 2,045 |
| 6 | shell-functools | 1,232 |
| 7 | ratarmount | 1,072 |
| 8 | Memacs | 1,064 |
| 9 | aiofile | 551 |
| 10 | python-fuse | 312 |
| 11 | snapper-gui | 243 |
| 12 | scorch | 202 |
| 13 | s3fs | 156 |
| 14 | flask-fileexplorer | 145 |
| 15 | ranger-zoxide | 121 |
| 16 | python-btrfs | 119 |
| 17 | haystackfs | 78 |
| 18 | zpool-iostat-viz | 73 |
| 19 | Networking-Guide | 70 |
| 20 | appendfilename | 56 |
| 21 | FATtools | 42 |
| 22 | python-task-queue | 36 |
| 23 | mycloud-restsdk-recovery-script | 32 |
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