Nifty Python

Not quite awesome, but a place to link interesting Python libraries and tools

Inspired by awesome-python, and all those other awesome lists!

• Nifty Python
  • Command Line Fu
  • Database
  • General Purpose
  • Nifty Terminal
  • Remote Administration
  • Scary Stuff
  • Web Stuff
• Other Resources
  • Podcasts
  • Websites
  • Articles
  • Project and Repo Management
  • Weekly Emails
• Contributing

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Command Line Fu

Let's add arguments to your Python scripts!

• click - a Python package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way.
• begins - quickly add command line arg parsing to your python scripts.
• python-fire - a library for automatically generating command line interfaces (CLIs) from absolutely any Python object.

Database

Database related tech.

• tinydb - TinyDB is a lightweight document oriented database optimized for your happiness :)
• dataset - Easy-to-use data handling for SQL data stores with support for implicit table creation, bulk loading, and transactions.

General Purpose

Stuff that seems useful. Generally.

• boltons - Like builtins, but boltons. Constructs/recipes/snippets that would be handy in the standard library.
• psutil - Cross-platform lib for process and system monitoring in Python
• towncrier - a utility to produce useful, summarised news files for your project

Nifty Terminal

Pimp out your terminal.

• Halo - Beautiful terminal spinners
• tqdm - Add a progress meter to your loops in a second
• python-prompt-toolkit - for building interactive python command lines
• colorama - colorful terminal text for python output

Remote Administration

For dealing with remote machines.

• closer - run, monitor and close remote SSH processes automatically
• sultan - a Python package for interfacing with command-line utilities, like yum, apt-get, or ls, in a Pythonic manner. Possible replacement for Fabric?
• AWX - Ansible web front end

Scary Stuff

Here be dragons - good thing someone else wrote it!

• parsedatetime - Parse human-readable date/time strings
• validus - A dead simple Python data validation library. They wrote regexes so I don't have to!
• CommonRegex - A collection of common regular expressions bundled with an easy to use interface.

Web Stuff

Web related tools.

• hammock - wrapper around requests for REST APIs. "Rest like a boss"

Other Resources

Podcasts

The ones I actually get around to listening to - on a good week

• Podcast.init
• Talk Python To Me
• Python Bytes

Websites

• Full Stack Python
• Python 3 Wall of Superpowers
• Python 2 Death Clock

Articles

• 20 Python Libraries You Aren't Using But Should - From Episode 77 of Talk Python to Me
• setup.py vs. requirements.txt - When and how to use/differentiate the two files (Donald Stufft 2013)

Project and Repo Management

• Keep a Changelog - A good format for creating changelogs

Weekly Emails

These are ones I actually subscribe to, with the understanding that there are others

• Pycoder's Weekly
• Python Weekly
• Python Bytes

Contributing

Please feel free to fork, but I am not accepting pull requests. I don't want this to be an awesome list. It is the "cool, I'll look into it" list because I've heard about it recently. I expect it to change over time, not just by adding things.