NEnetworked·Jul 31, 2024
Last year I posted a similar Ask HN;
it got 11 comments: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38505531.
I asked, "What lesser-known Python libraries do you wish people knew about?"
The suggestions there are worth looking up.
Don't miss DiskCache (https://github.com/grantjenks/python-diskcache).
I really like xmltodict (https://github.com/martinblech/xmltodict).
Despite the name, it works in both directions.
It is the most ergonomic library I have used for creating XML.
It has external type stubs: https://pypi.org/project/types-xmltodict/.
Since you have recently discovered Rich, you may want rich-argparse (https://github.com/hamdanal/rich-argparse).
It colorizes argparse CLIs with little effort from the user.
DeepDiff (https://github.com/seperman/deepdiff) has helped me with testing.
I needed to compare two nested data structures but igno
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re any differences in floats (timestamps).
DeepDiff let me do it:
diff = DeepDiff(
run_session(config), run_session(config, force=True), exclude_types=(float,)
)
assert not diff
pzp (https://github.com/andreax79/pzp) is like fzf in pure Python to use in your programs.
Keep in mind it is currently version 0.0.x.
I have found bugs, but I think it is just cool that it exists.