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- Linters & Style Checkers 42 projects
- Code Formatters 6 projects
- Code Refactoring 18 projects
- Code Security 8 projects
- Virtual Environments 8 projects
- Dependency & Package Mangers 10 projects
- Code Metrics & Complexity 6 projects
- Logging 21 projects
- Documentation 26 projects
- Debugging Tools 13 projects
- Testing Tools 43 projects
- Code Packaging 16 projects
- Build Tools 14 projects
- System Monitoring & Profiling 17 projects
- AST Tools 5 projects
- Others 1 projects
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pycodestyle (🥇33 · ⭐ 4.4K) - Simple Python style checker in one Python file. ❗️Saxpath
pydocstyle (🥇31 · ⭐ 820) - docstring style checker. MIT
wemake-python-styleguide (🥈30 · ⭐ 1.6K) - The strictest and most opinionated python linter ever!. MIT
flake8-bugbear (🥈29 · ⭐ 600) - A plugin for Flake8 finding likely bugs and design problems.. MIT
pylint-django (🥈29 · ⭐ 480) - Pylint plugin for improving code analysis for when.. ❗️GPL-2.0
coala (🥈27 · ⭐ 3.2K) - coala provides a unified command-line interface for linting and.. ❗️AGPL-3.0
flake8-quotes (🥈27 · ⭐ 130) - Flake8 extension for checking quotes in python. MIT
darglint (🥈26 · ⭐ 350) - A python documentation linter which checks that the docstring description.. MIT
pyre-check (🥈25 · ⭐ 5.6K) - Performant type-checking for python. MIT
check-manifest (🥈25 · ⭐ 240) - Tool to check the completeness of MANIFEST.in for Python packages. MIT
flake8-comprehensions (🥉23 · ⭐ 300) - A flake8 plugin to help you write better.. MIT
flake8-eradicate (🥉23 · ⭐ 200) - Flake8 plugin to find commented out or dead code. MIT
flake8-black (🥉23 · ⭐ 95) - flake8 plugin to run black for checking Python coding style. MIT
data-science-types (🥉22 · ⭐ 190 · 💤) - Mypy stubs, i.e., type information, for numpy, pandas.. Apache-2
flake8-builtins (🥉22 · ⭐ 69) - Check for python builtins being used as variables or.. ❗️GPL-2.0
mypy-protobuf (🥉21 · ⭐ 390) - open source tools to generate mypy stubs from protobufs. Apache-2
pylint-flask (🥉20 · ⭐ 59) - A Pylint plugin to analyze Flask applications. ❗️GPL-2.0
bellybutton (🥉18 · ⭐ 220) - Custom Python linting through AST expressions. MIT
pandas-vet (🥉18 · ⭐ 110) - A plugin for Flake8 that checks pandas code. MIT
linty_fresh (🥉15 · ⭐ 180 · 💤) - Surface lint errors during code review. Apache-2 mypy
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- pep8-naming (🥈28 · ⭐ 340) - Naming Convention checker for Python.
❗️Saxpath - pylama (🥈25 · ⭐ 820 · 💀) - Code audit tool for python.
❗️LGPL-3.0 - flake8-isort (🥈25 · ⭐ 110 · 💀) - flake8 plugin that integrates isort.
❗️GPL-2.0 - flake8-import-order (🥉24 · ⭐ 240 · 💀) - Flake8 plugin that checks import order against..
❗️LGPL-3.0 - flake8-commas (🥉24 · ⭐ 130 · 💀) - Flake8 extension for enforcing trailing commas in python.
MIT - flake8-mypy (🥉20 · ⭐ 100 · 💀) - A plugin for flake8 integrating Mypy.
MIT - flake8-bandit (🥉20 · ⭐ 63 · 💀) - Automated security testing using bandit and flake8.
MIT - pycycle (🥉18 · ⭐ 290 · 💀) - Tool for pinpointing circular imports in Python. Find cyclic imports..
MIT - imhotep (🥉18 · ⭐ 220 · 💀) - A static-analysis bot for Github.
MIT - yala (🥉16 · ⭐ 11) - Yet Another Linter Aggregator.
MIT
autopep8 (🥇34 · ⭐ 3.9K) - A tool that automatically formats Python code to conform to the PEP 8.. MIT
docformatter (🥉24 · ⭐ 230 · 💤) - Formats docstrings to follow PEP 257. MIT
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rope (🥇31 · ⭐ 1.2K · 📈) - a python refactoring library. ❗️LGPL-3.0
pyupgrade (🥈25 · ⭐ 1.2K) - A tool (and pre-commit hook) to automatically upgrade syntax for newer.. MIT
autoflake (🥈23 · ⭐ 430 · 💤) - Removes unused imports and unused variables as reported by pyflakes. MIT
MonkeyType (🥈21 · ⭐ 3.5K) - A system for Python that generates static type annotations by.. BSD-3
pyannotate (🥈21 · ⭐ 1.2K) - Auto-generate PEP-484 annotations. Apache-2
add-trailing-comma (🥉19 · ⭐ 190) - A tool (and pre-commit hook) to automatically add trailing.. MIT
massedit (🥉17 · ⭐ 91 · 💤) - Programmatically edit text files with Python. Useful for source to.. MIT
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- eradicate (🥉20 · ⭐ 120 · 💤) - Removes commented-out code from Python files.
❗️Saxpath - redbaron (🥉19 · ⭐ 610 · 💀) - Bottom-up approach to refactoring in python.
❗️LGPL-3.0 - baron (🥉19 · ⭐ 260 · 💀) - IDE allow you to refactor code, Baron allows you to write..
❗️LGPL-3.0 - unify (🥉19 · ⭐ 58 · 💀) - Modifies strings to all use the same quote where possible.
MIT - pep8ify (🥉16 · ⭐ 120 · 💀) - A library that modifies python source code to conform to pep8.
Apache-2
bandit (🥇31 · ⭐ 3.5K) - Bandit is a tool designed to find common security issues in Python.. Apache-2
detect-secrets (🥉21 · ⭐ 2K · 📉) - An enterprise friendly way of detecting and preventing.. Apache-2
dodgy (🥉19 · ⭐ 91) - Looks at Python code to search for things which look dodgy such as passwords.. MIT
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- pyarmor (🥈26 · ⭐ 1.2K) - A tool used to obfuscate python scripts, bind obfuscated scripts..
❗️SGI-B-2.0 - pyt (🥉18 · ⭐ 2.1K · 💀) - A Static Analysis Tool for Detecting Security Vulnerabilities in..
❗️GPL-2.0
virtualenv (🥈32 · ⭐ 4K) - Virtual Python Environment builder. MIT
pyenv-virtualenv (🥉18 · ⭐ 4.5K) - a pyenv plugin to manage virtualenv (a.k.a. python-virtualenv). MIT
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GitHub (👨💻 44 · 🔀 300 · 📋 320 - 42% open · ⏱️ 25.07.2021):
git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-virtualenv
pyenv-installer (🥉15 · ⭐ 2.9K) - This tool is used to install `pyenv` and friends. MIT
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GitHub (👨💻 33 · 🔀 320 · 📋 70 - 7% open · ⏱️ 27.08.2021):
git clone https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv-installer
dh-virtualenv (🥉15 · ⭐ 1.5K) - Python virtualenvs in Debian packages. ❗️GPL-2.0
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GitHub (👨💻 57 · 🔀 160 · 📋 190 - 12% open · ⏱️ 26.07.2021):
git clone https://github.com/spotify/dh-virtualenv
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- vex (🥉18 · ⭐ 370 · 💀) - Run a command in the named virtualenv.
MIT - pipenv-pipes (🥉13 · ⭐ 130 · 💀) - A PipEnv Environment Switcher.
MIT
pipreqs (🥈29 · ⭐ 3.7K) - pipreqs - Generate pip requirements.txt file based on imports of any.. Apache-2
dephell (🥉24 · ⭐ 1.7K · 💤) - Python project management. Manage packages: convert between formats,.. MIT
prospector (🥇29 · ⭐ 1.5K · 📈) - Inspects Python source files and provides information about.. ❗️GPL-2.0
wily (🥉21 · ⭐ 810) - A Python application for tracking, reporting on timing and complexity in.. Apache-2
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tqdm (🥇37 · ⭐ 20K) - A Fast, Extensible Progress Bar for Python and CLI. MPL-2.0
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GitHub (👨💻 110 · 🔀 1K · 📥 7.8K · 📦 210K · 📋 840 - 37% open · ⏱️ 20.09.2021):
git clone https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm -
PyPi (📥 26M / month · 📦 26K · ⏱️ 20.09.2021):
pip install tqdm -
Conda (📥 7.8M · ⏱️ 20.09.2021):
conda install -c conda-forge tqdm -
Docker Hub (📥 3.9K · ⭐ 2 · ⏱️ 25.09.2021):
docker pull tqdm/tqdm
rich (🥇33 · ⭐ 30K) - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. MIT
python-json-logger (🥇32 · ⭐ 1.1K) - Json Formatter for the standard python logger. BSD-2
sentry-sdk (🥇32 · ⭐ 1.1K) - The new Python SDK for Sentry.io. BSD-2
progressbar2 (🥈29 · ⭐ 730) - Progressbar 2 - A progress bar for Python 2 and Python 3 - pip.. BSD-3
python-coloredlogs (🥈27 · ⭐ 430) - Colored terminal output for Python's logging module. MIT
better-exceptions (🥉23 · ⭐ 4K) - Pretty and useful exceptions in Python, automatically. MIT
rebound (🥉23 · ⭐ 3.7K · 💤) - Command-line tool that instantly fetches Stack Overflow results when.. MIT
alive-progress (🥉22 · ⭐ 2.7K) - A new kind of Progress Bar, with real time throughput, ETA and.. MIT
PrettyErrors (🥉20 · ⭐ 2.2K) - Prettify Python exception output to make it legible. MIT
python-devtools (🥉20 · ⭐ 410) - Dev tools for python. MIT
stackprinter (🥉18 · ⭐ 1.1K · 💤) - Debugging-friendly exceptions for Python. MIT
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- logbook (🥈31 · ⭐ 1.4K · 💀) - A cool logging replacement for Python.
BSD-3 - prettytable (🥉23 · ⭐ 550) - Display tabular data in a visually appealing ASCII table..
❗️BSD-1-Clause - tbvaccine (🥉16 · ⭐ 360 · 💀) - A small utility to pretty-print Python tracebacks.
MIT
mkdocs-material (🥇33 · ⭐ 7.6K) - Technical documentation that just works. MIT
sphinx_rtd_theme (🥈31 · ⭐ 3.8K) - Sphinx theme for readthedocs.org. MIT
sphinx-bootstrap-theme (🥈27 · ⭐ 580) - Sphinx Bootstrap Theme. MIT
pdoc3 (🥈26 · ⭐ 720) - Auto-generate API documentation for Python projects. ❗️AGPL-3.0
sphinx-autodoc-typehints (🥈26 · ⭐ 360) - Type hints support for the Sphinx autodoc extension. MIT
interrogate (🥈26 · ⭐ 320 · 📈) - Explain yourself! Interrogate a codebase for docstring coverage. MIT
sphinx-autobuild (🥉23 · ⭐ 350) - Watch a Sphinx directory and rebuild the documentation.. MIT
mkdocstrings (🥉22 · ⭐ 480) - Automatic documentation from sources, for MkDocs. ISC
mkdocs-pdf-export-plugin (🥉22 · ⭐ 210) - An MkDocs plugin to export content pages as PDF files. MIT
blacken-docs (🥉21 · ⭐ 270) - Run `black` on python code blocks in documentation files. MIT
sphinx-markdown-builder (🥉21 · ⭐ 110 · 💤) - sphinx builder that outputs markdown files. MIT
mkdocs-with-pdf (🥉21 · ⭐ 91) - Generate a single PDF file from MkDocs repository. MIT
mkdocs-awesome-pages-plugin (🥉19 · ⭐ 180 · 💤) - An MkDocs plugin that simplifies configuring page.. MIT
lazydocs (🥉16 · ⭐ 40) - Generate markdown API documentation from Google-style Python docstring... MIT
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- pycco (🥉19 · ⭐ 760 · 💀) - Literate-style documentation generator.
MIT - mkdocs-git-revision-date-plugin (🥉19 · ⭐ 36 · 💤) - MkDocs plugin for setting revision date from git per..
MIT - mkdocs-print-site-plugin (🥉16 · ⭐ 23) - MkDocs Plugin allowing your visitors to *File Print..
MIT - mkdocs-versioning (🥉15 · ⭐ 40) - A tool that allows for versioning sites built with mkdocs.
MIT
pyelftools (🥇28 · ⭐ 1.3K) - Parsing ELF and DWARF in Python. Unlicense
gdbgui (🥈26 · ⭐ 8.2K) - Browser-based frontend to gdb (gnu debugger). Add breakpoints, view.. ❗️GPL-3.0
python-hunter (🥉23 · ⭐ 640) - Hunter is a flexible code tracing toolkit. BSD-2
python-manhole (🥉23 · ⭐ 310) - Debugging manhole for python applications. BSD-2
Birdseye (🥉19 · ⭐ 1.4K) - Graphical Python debugger which lets you easily view the values of all.. MIT
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🔗 best-of-web-python - Testing ( ⭐ 1.3K) - Testing libraries & tools for python web frameworks.
🔗 unittest - Unittest is a test framework included in the Python standard library.
robotframework (🥇34 · ⭐ 6.3K) - Generic automation framework for acceptance testing and RPA. Apache-2
pytest-cov (🥇33 · ⭐ 1.1K) - Coverage plugin for pytest. MIT
hypothesis (🥇32 · ⭐ 5.4K) - Hypothesis is a powerful, flexible, and easy to use library for.. MPL-2.0
pytest-xdist (🥇32 · ⭐ 770) - pytest plugin for distributed testing and loop-on-failures.. MIT
pytest-mock (🥈30 · ⭐ 1.2K) - Thin-wrapper around the mock package for easier use with pytest. MIT
pytest-asyncio (🥈30 · ⭐ 790) - Pytest support for asyncio. Apache-2
coveralls-python (🥈30 · ⭐ 460) - Show coverage stats online via coveralls.io. MIT
pytest-html (🥈29 · ⭐ 440 · 💤) - Plugin for generating HTML reports for pytest results. MPL-2.0
pyautogui (🥈28 · ⭐ 5.6K) - A cross-platform GUI automation Python module for human beings. Used.. BSD-3
playwright-python (🥈28 · ⭐ 5.3K) - Python version of the Playwright testing and automation.. Apache-2
factory_boy (🥈27 · ⭐ 2.6K) - A test fixtures replacement for Python. MIT
pytest-sugar (🥈27 · ⭐ 730 · 💤) - a plugin for py.test that changes the default look and.. BSD-3
pytest-bdd (🥉26 · ⭐ 880) - BDD library for the py.test runner. MIT
pytest-benchmark (🥉26 · ⭐ 800) - py.test fixture for benchmarking code. BSD-2
uiautomator (🥉25 · ⭐ 1.7K · 💤) - Python wrapper of Android uiautomator test tool. MIT
asv (🥉25 · ⭐ 610) - Airspeed Velocity: A simple Python benchmarking tool with web-based reporting. BSD-3
PyHamcrest (🥉25 · ⭐ 570) - Hamcrest matchers for Python. BSD-3
pytest-testinfra (🥉24 · ⭐ 1.9K) - Testinfra test your infrastructures. Apache-2
pytest-mypy (🥉24 · ⭐ 190) - Mypy static type checker plugin for Pytest. MIT
pytest-testmon (🥉23 · ⭐ 490) - Selects tests affected by changed files. Continous.. ❗️AGPL-3.0
Mamba Test Runner (🥉23 · ⭐ 470 · 💤) - The definitive testing tool for Python. Born under the.. MIT
pytest-randomly (🥉23 · ⭐ 350) - Pytest plugin to randomly order tests and control random.seed. MIT
xdoctest (🥉22 · ⭐ 120) - A rewrite of Python's builtin doctest module (with pytest plugin.. Apache-2
pytest-docker (🥉21 · ⭐ 230) - Docker-based integration tests. MIT
pytest-lazy-fixture (🥉20 · ⭐ 210) - It helps to use fixtures in pytest.mark.parametrize. MIT
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- nose (🥈31 · ⭐ 1.3K · 💀) - nose is nicer testing for python.
❗️LGPL-2.1+ - pytest-watch (🥉25 · ⭐ 590 · 💀) - Local continuous test runner with pytest and watchdog.
MIT - sixpack (🥉20 · ⭐ 1.7K · 💀) - Sixpack is a language-agnostic a/b-testing framework.
BSD-2 - pytest-datadir (🥉20 · ⭐ 150 · 💀) - pytest plugin for manipulating test data directories and..
MIT - assertpy (🥉18 · ⭐ 250 · 💀) - Simple assertion library for unit testing in python with a fluent..
BSD-3 - fake2db (🥉16 · ⭐ 2.1K · 💀) - create custom test databases that are populated with fake data.
❗️GPL-2.0 - pytest-plugins (🥉14 · ⭐ 390 · 💀) - A grab-bag of nifty pytest plugins.
MIT - pytest-play (🥉14 · ⭐ 64 · 💀) - pytest plugin that let you automate actions and..
Apache-2
🔗 Python.org Packaging - An Overview of Packaging for Python.
Nuitka (🥇28 · ⭐ 5.9K) - Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python. It's fully compatible.. Apache-2
pyinstaller (🥈26 · ⭐ 8.5K) - Freeze (package) Python programs into stand-alone executables. ❗️GPL-2.0
py2exe (🥈24 · ⭐ 300) - A distutils extension to create standalone Windows programs from Python code. MIT
cx_Freeze (🥉23 · ⭐ 800) - Create standalone executables from Python scripts, with the same.. Python-2.0
shiv (🥉21 · ⭐ 1.3K) - shiv is a command line utility for building fully self contained Python.. BSD-2
constructor (🥉19 · ⭐ 330) - tool for creating installers from conda packages. BSD-3
PyOxidizer (🥉16 · ⭐ 3.2K) - A modern Python application packaging and distribution tool. MPL-2.0
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GitHub (👨💻 34 · 🔀 120 · 📥 680 · 📋 370 - 58% open · ⏱️ 27.09.2021):
git clone https://github.com/indygreg/PyOxidizer
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setuptools (🥇34 · ⭐ 1.4K) - Official project repository for the Setuptools build system. MIT
buildbot (🥈31 · ⭐ 4.7K) - Python-based continuous integration testing framework; your pull.. ❗️GPL-2.0
setuptools_scm (🥉23 · ⭐ 500) - the blessed package to manage your versions by scm tags. MIT
universal-build (🥉14 · ⭐ 13) - Universal build utilities for containerized build pipelines. MIT
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Glances (🥇30 · ⭐ 19K) - Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for.. ❗️LGPL-3.0
line_profiler (🥈26 · ⭐ 3.5K) - Line-by-line profiling for Python. BSD-3
memory-profiler (🥈26 · ⭐ 3.1K) - Monitor Memory usage of Python code. BSD-3
Scalene (🥈25 · ⭐ 4.5K) - Scalene: a high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, and memory.. Apache-2
Yappi (🥉24 · ⭐ 720) - Yet Another Python Profiler, but this time thread&coroutine&greenlet aware. MIT
pyinstrument (🥉23 · ⭐ 3.4K) - Call stack profiler for Python. Shows you why your code is slow!. BSD-3
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- Diamond (🥈26 · ⭐ 1.6K · 💀) - Diamond is a python daemon that collects system metrics and publishes..
MIT - memory_profiler (🥉22 · ⭐ 65 · 💀) - Monitor Memory usage of Python code.
BSD-3 - Profiling (🥉21 · ⭐ 3K · 💀) - Was an interactive continuous Python profiler.
BSD-3 - livepython (🥉12 · ⭐ 2.5K · 💀) - Visually trace Python code in real-time.
MIT
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- astunparse (🥈28 · ⭐ 170 · 💀) - An AST unparser for Python.
BSD-3
pre-commit (🥇32 · ⭐ 6.6K) - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit.. MIT
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