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Top 11 Python Fish Projects
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powerline
Powerline is a statusline plugin for vim, and provides statuslines and prompts for several other applications, including zsh, bash, tmux, IPython, Awesome and Qtile.
Project mention: How I manage multiple kubernetes clusters w/ kubectx & kubens | dev.to | 2024-10-01I love powerline over traditional PS1 (aka command prompt). It's beautiful and highly customizable.
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Project mention: Advanced Shell Scripting with Bash (2006) [pdf] | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-04-17
(Not sure about the equivalent of shlex.quote, but in the worst case, you can just use "from shlex import quote as q" or something).
So yes, there are good alternatives to bash - even Python based.
[0] https://xon.sh/
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I thought that using Makefile targets was the shortest friendliest to show what a project can do. Turns out make and Makefiles can be mysterious when they fail.
Tutorials are "best-effort" and often don't dwell on the rabbit-holes they create when a poor soul runs astray of the sunny path.
Example of a good tutorial:
Python's powerline shell: https://github.com/b-ryan/powerline-shell
The README is succinct. Well put together.
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xxh
🚀 Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through the ssh. Xonsh shell, fish, zsh, osquery and so on.
Project mention: Xxh: Bring your favorite shell wherever you go through SSH | news.ycombinator.com | 2024-07-17 -
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SISH
Fast and scalable search of whole-slide images via self-supervised deep learning - Nature Biomedical Engineering (by mahmoodlab)
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pyautoenv
Automatically activate and deactivate Python environments as you move around the file system.
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
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dotfiles
Ansible playbooks, which idempotently configure new system with a single bootstrap command. (by rudenkornk)
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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 Fish discussion
Python Fish related posts
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Comparing powerline with OhMyPosh
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Advice to be more efficient with the terminal?
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Using nvm with fish shell [Linux]
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Vent: I'm tired of the 1001 libraries of virtual environments.
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Warp terminal alternative?
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Im amazed by the memory consumption, so happy i went with neovim, same project opened (Rust)
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Jmp: you'll never want to cd into a directory again
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A note from our sponsor - InfluxDB
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Fish projects in Python? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
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| 1 | powerline | 14,526 |
| 2 | xonsh | 8,766 |
| 3 | powerline-shell | 6,246 |
| 4 | xxh | 5,601 |
| 5 | zsh-history-to-fish | 116 |
| 6 | SISH | 99 |
| 7 | pyautoenv | 67 |
| 8 | dots | 15 |
| 9 | fishauctions | 12 |
| 10 | dotfiles | 8 |
| 11 | dotfiles | 3 |
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