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insomnia
The open-source, cross-platform API client for GraphQL, REST, WebSockets, SSE and gRPC. With Cloud, Local and Git storage.
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httpie
🥧 HTTPie CLI — modern, user-friendly command-line HTTP client for the API era. JSON support, colors, sessions, downloads, plugins & more. (by httpie)
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Nuitka
Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python. It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.4-3.13. You feed it your Python app, it does a lot of clever things, and spits out an executable or extension module.
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windmill
Open-source developer platform to power your entire infra and turn scripts into webhooks, workflows and UIs. Fastest workflow engine (13x vs Airflow). Open-source alternative to Retool and Temporal.
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cinder
This is Meta's fork of the CPython runtime. The name "cinder" here is historical, see https://github.com/facebookincubator/cinderx for the Python extension / JIT compiler. (by facebookincubator)
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WinPython
A free Python-distribution for Windows platform, including prebuilt packages for Scientific Python.
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pytest
The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet scales to support complex functional testing
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Cinder
Cinder is a community-developed, free and open source library for professional-quality creative coding in C++.
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Pyston
(No longer maintained) A faster and highly-compatible implementation of the Python programming language.
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MonkeyType
A Python library that generates static type annotations by collecting runtime types (by Instagram)
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Lean and Mean Docker containers
Slim(toolkit): Don't change anything in your container image and minify it by up to 30x (and for compiled languages even more) making it secure too! (free and open source)
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NOTE:
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Hence, a higher number means a better pipx alternative or higher similarity.
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The ancient monuments saluting the winter solstice
Love it, bookmarked.
I first saw this idea at https://jmw.name/projects/linear-clock/ and then later I wrote a TUI version for myself
I had tickmarks for stuff (when to go to bed to sleep for 7.5h and wake up near sunrise, things like that). I was working on adding a config file format.
Then I lost the project due to a mishap with a pipx flag... https://github.com/pypa/pipx/issues/1324#issuecomment-211885... ;_; o7
One day maybe I'll come back and do it in Rust.
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I'm Switching to Python and Actually Liking It
Actually, only the second one, because I already had pipx (https://pipx.pypa.io/ — a wrapper for pip that does basic virtual environment management) installed.
Can you name some specific things in Python you have tried to use, and give more concrete descriptions of how you tried to set them up?
- Pipx: Install and Run Python Applications in Isolated Environments
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Pex: A tool for generating .pex (Python EXecutable) files, lock files and venvs
While we're posting not-nice things, I'll throw my current favorite out: pipx ( https://github.com/pypa/pipx ). I use Python's Poetry to build a wheel and then pipx to install it. Super-easy, barely an inconvenience :)
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Code Contributions: Making Pull Requests
How to download pipx
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GitHub Release Action for the Python Package Index
## Install `jpsapp` is [distributed by PyPI](https://pypi.org/project/jpsapp/) and can be installed with [pipx](https://github.com/pypa/pipx): ``` pipx install jpsapp ```
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Keep your AWS CLI config fresh with Cog
Use pipx to install Cog and my aws-sso-config-builder tool in the same environment:
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Implementing Quality Checks In Your Git Workflow With Hooks and pre-commit
Given how useful pre-commit is across projects I generally recommend installing via pip install --user, making it part of a tooling virtual environment, or using pipx:
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pipx VS instld - a user suggested alternative
2 projects | 9 Dec 2023
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