ASaspenmayer·Dec 11, 2023Submission
Boltons is a set of over 250 BSD-licensed, pure-Python utilities
6 points · Open discussionmahmoud
boltons
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mahmoud / boltons
boltons
🔩 Like builtins, but boltons. 250+ constructs, recipes, and snippets which extend (and rely on nothing but) the Python standard library. Nothing like Michael Bolton.
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🔩 Like builtins, but boltons. 250+ constructs, recipes, and snippets which extend (and rely on nothing but) the Python standard library. Nothing like Michael Bolton.
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| 2016 | 2016-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2017-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 0 | 0 | 0 |
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| 2018 | 2018-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2019-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2 | 1 | 1 |
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| 2023 | 2023-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 2024-01-01 00:00:00 UTC | 1 | 1 | 0 |
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12 sourcesBoltons: A set of BSD-licensed, pure-Python utilities
312 points · Open discussionSeveral good ones have already been suggested, but here's a few more:
- https://github.com/mahmoud/boltons : utility functions, but well documented
- https://github.com/KeepSafe/aiohttp : a Python 3 async HTTP server
- https://github.com/telefonicaid/di-py : a dependency injection framework
- https://github.com/moggers87/salmon : a fork of Lamson (which was written by Zed)
Python's internals are pretty darn open, so here's a few suggestions that push the boundaries of meta programming in Python - they're not the idiomatic code you're looking for right now, but later, when you know the best practices and you're wondering what is possible they'll be good to look at:
- https://github.com/Suor/whatever : Scala's magic `_` for Python
- https://github.com/ryanhiebert/typeset : Types as sets for Python
- https://github.com/AndreaCensi/contracts
Read the rest
: Gradually typed Python (akin to MyPy)
- http://mypy-lang.org : Gradually typed Python - the future (at least right now)
100 BSD-licensed pure-Python utilities
1 points · Open discussionI know about getting permalinks to Github. Also:
* You can shorten the commit id:
https://github.com/mahmoud/boltons/blob/e5b7582/boltons/test...
* You can highlight ranges:
https://github.com/mahmoud/boltons/blob/e5b75821781b37ee8ccf...
* You can ignore whitespace in diffs:
https://github.com/blog/967-github-secrets
In Boltons: over 100 Python utilitiesA more permanent link: https://github.com/mahmoud/boltons/blob/e5b75821781b37ee8ccf...
See https://help.github.com/articles/getting-permanent-links-to-...
In Boltons: over 100 Python utilitiesThis doesn't seem portable: https://github.com/mahmoud/boltons/blob/master/boltons/tests...
In Boltons: over 100 Python utilitiesI'd been wondering how to do this...
https://github.com/mahmoud/boltons/blob/master/boltons/easte...
In Boltons: over 100 Python utilitiesVery nice collection. I like the cacheutils LRI and LRU setups [1]. Interested in the StringBuffer [2]. The Table object looks useful [3]. Overall some great additions in utils that you can tell were added through usage and shipping needs especially in strutils, listutils, formatutils etc. Lots of common ones in our own python or other platform libs.
In any review there is always a few WTFs like this one [4]. I am surprised you didn't get arrested during that development
[1] https://github.com/mahmoud/boltons/blob/master/boltons/cache...
[2] https://github.com/mahmoud/boltons/blob/master/boltons/strut...
[3] https://github.com/mahmoud/boltons/blob/master/boltons/table...
[4] https://github.com/mahmoud/boltons/blob/master/boltons/easte...
In Boltons: over 100 Python utilitiesBoltons: over 100 Python utilities
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