Releases: ml-tooling/best-of-python-dev
Update: 2026.03.05
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Projects that have a higher project-quality score compared to the last update. There might be a variety of reasons, such as increased downloads or code activity.
- setuptools_scm (🥈37 · ⭐ 940 · 📈) - the blessed package to manage your versions by scm tags.
MIT - tabulate (🥈36 · ⭐ 2.5K · 📈) - Pretty-print tabular data in Python, a library and a command-line..
MIT - nose2 (🥈34 · ⭐ 820 · 📈) - The successor to nose, based on unittest2.
BSD-2 - Griffe (🥈34 · ⭐ 610 · 📈) - Signatures for entire Python programs. Extract the structure, the..
ISC - python-coloredlogs (🥉30 · ⭐ 560 · 💀) - Colored terminal output for Pythons logging module.
MIT
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- sphinx (🥇41 · ⭐ 7.7K · 📉) - The Sphinx documentation generator.
❗Unlicensed - flake8 (🥇39 · ⭐ 3.8K · 📉) - Flake8 is a wrapper around these tools: PyFlakes; pycodestyle; Ned..
MIT - pytest-mock (🥈36 · ⭐ 2K · 📉) - Thin-wrapper around the mock package for easier use with..
MIT - asv (🥉30 · ⭐ 990 · 📉) - Airspeed Velocity: A simple Python benchmarking tool with web-based..
BSD-3 - Mamba Test Runner (🥉22 · ⭐ 540 · 💀) - The definitive testing tool for Python. Born under the..
MIT
Update: 2026.02.26
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Projects that have a higher project-quality score compared to the last update. There might be a variety of reasons, such as increased downloads or code activity.
- tox (🥇42 · ⭐ 3.9K · 📈) - Command line driven CI frontend and development task automation tool.
MIT - Nuitka (🥇40 · ⭐ 15K · 📈) - Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python. Its fully..
❗️AGPL-3.0 - pytest-sugar (🥈32 · ⭐ 1.5K · 📈) - a plugin for py.test that changes the default look and..
BSD-3 - blacken-docs (🥉27 · ⭐ 680 · 📈) - Run
blackon python code blocks in documentation files.MIT - pycycle (🥉17 · ⭐ 360 · 💀) - Tool for pinpointing circular imports in Python. Find cyclic imports..
MIT
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Projects that have a lower project-quality score compared to the last update. There might be a variety of reasons such as decreased downloads or code activity.
- pre-commit (🥇41 · ⭐ 15K · 📉) - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit..
MIT - xonsh (🥇37 · ⭐ 9.2K · 📉) - Python-powered shell. Full-featured, cross-platform and AI-..
❗️BSD-1-Clause - setuptools_scm (🥈35 · ⭐ 940 · 📉) - the blessed package to manage your versions by scm tags.
MIT - pyarmor (🥉34 · ⭐ 5K · 📉) - A tool used to obfuscate python scripts, bind obfuscated..
❗️SGI-B-2.0 - python-coloredlogs (🥉27 · ⭐ 560 · 💀) - Colored terminal output for Pythons logging module.
MIT
Update: 2026.02.19
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Projects that have a higher project-quality score compared to the last update. There might be a variety of reasons, such as increased downloads or code activity.
- sphinx (🥇44 · ⭐ 7.7K · 📈) - The Sphinx documentation generator.
❗Unlicensed - xonsh (🥇38 · ⭐ 9.2K · 📈) - Python-powered shell. Full-featured, cross-platform and AI-..
❗️BSD-1-Clause - pytest-benchmark (🥉31 · ⭐ 1.4K · 📈) - pytest fixture for benchmarking code.
BSD-2 - autoflake (🥈30 · ⭐ 950 · 📈) - Removes unused imports and unused variables as reported by pyflakes.
MIT - notifiers (🥉28 · ⭐ 2.7K · 📈) - The easy way to send notifications.
MIT
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- PDM (🥈37 · ⭐ 8.5K · 📉) - A modern Python package and dependency manager supporting the latest PEP..
MIT - pyinstrument (🥈35 · ⭐ 7.6K · 📉) - Call stack profiler for Python. Shows you why your code is..
BSD-3 - pytest-sugar (🥉30 · ⭐ 1.5K · 📉) - a plugin for py.test that changes the default look and..
BSD-3 - blacken-docs (🥉25 · ⭐ 680 · 📉) - Run
blackon python code blocks in documentation files.MIT - pycycle (🥉15 · ⭐ 360 · 💀) - Tool for pinpointing circular imports in Python. Find cyclic imports..
MIT
Update: 2026.02.12
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Projects that have a higher project-quality score compared to the last update. There might be a variety of reasons, such as increased downloads or code activity.
- ruff (🥇47 · ⭐ 46K · 📈) - An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.
MIT - parso (🥈36 · ⭐ 660 · 📈) - A Python Parser.
MIT - doit (🥉34 · ⭐ 2K · 📈) - CLI task management & automation tool.
MIT - pyflow (🥉22 · ⭐ 1.3K · 📈) - An installation and dependency system for Python.
MIT - pyship (🥉16 · ⭐ 44 · 📈) - pyship - ship Python desktop apps to end users.
MIT
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- pytest (🥇49 · ⭐ 14K · 📉) - The pytest framework makes it easy to write small tests, yet..
MIT - pip (🥇47 · ⭐ 10K · 📉) - The Python package installer.
MIT - sphinx (🥇42 · ⭐ 7.7K · 📉) - The Sphinx documentation generator.
❗Unlicensed - xonsh (🥇36 · ⭐ 9.2K · 📉) - Python-powered shell. Full-featured, cross-platform and AI-..
❗️BSD-1-Clause - notifiers (🥉24 · ⭐ 2.7K · 📉) - The easy way to send notifications.
MIT
Update: 2026.02.05
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Projects that have a higher project-quality score compared to the last update. There might be a variety of reasons, such as increased downloads or code activity.
- tqdm (🥇44 · ⭐ 31K · 📈) - A Fast, Extensible Progress Bar for Python and CLI.
MPL-2.0 - PDM (🥈38 · ⭐ 8.5K · 📈) - A modern Python package and dependency manager supporting the latest PEP..
MIT - pycodestyle (🥈34 · ⭐ 5.2K · 📈) - Simple Python style checker in one Python file.
MIT - prospector (🥇34 · ⭐ 2.1K · 📈) - Inspects Python source files and provides information about..
❗️GPL-2.0 - flake8-bugbear (🥈33 · ⭐ 1.1K · 📈) - A plugin for Flake8 finding likely bugs and design..
MIT
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- playwright-python (🥈38 · ⭐ 14K · 📉) - Python version of the Playwright testing and..
Apache-2 - autopep8 (🥉35 · ⭐ 4.7K · 📉) - A tool that automatically formats Python code to conform to the PEP..
MIT - pytest-benchmark (🥉29 · ⭐ 1.4K · 📉) - pytest fixture for benchmarking code.
BSD-2 - pybuilder (🥉26 · ⭐ 1.9K · 📉) - Software build automation tool for Python.
Apache-2 - pyflow (🥉19 · ⭐ 1.3K · 📉) - An installation and dependency system for Python.
MIT
Update: 2026.01.29
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Projects that have a higher project-quality score compared to the last update. There might be a variety of reasons, such as increased downloads or code activity.
- rich (🥇47 · ⭐ 55K · 📈) - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the..
MIT - pytest-xdist (🥈38 · ⭐ 1.8K · 📈) - pytest plugin for distributed testing and loop-on-..
MIT - prettytable (🥈36 · ⭐ 1.6K · 📈) - Display tabular data in a visually appealing ASCII..
❗Unlicensed - pyenv (🥈35 · ⭐ 44K · 📈) - Simple Python version management.
MIT - pyarmor (🥈35 · ⭐ 4.9K · 📈) - A tool used to obfuscate python scripts, bind obfuscated..
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Projects that have a lower project-quality score compared to the last update. There might be a variety of reasons such as decreased downloads or code activity.
- PDM (🥉35 · ⭐ 8.5K · 📉) - A modern Python package and dependency manager supporting the latest PEP..
MIT - ruff (🥈31 · ⭐ 45K · 📉) - An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.
MIT - pycodestyle (🥈31 · ⭐ 5.2K · 📉) - Simple Python style checker in one Python file.
MIT - flake8-bugbear (🥈30 · ⭐ 1.1K · 📉) - A plugin for Flake8 finding likely bugs and design..
MIT - tbvaccine (🥉14 · ⭐ 380 · 💀) - A small utility to pretty-print Python tracebacks.
MIT
Update: 2026.01.22
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Projects that have a higher project-quality score compared to the last update. There might be a variety of reasons, such as increased downloads or code activity.
- jedi (🥇42 · ⭐ 6.1K · 📈) - Awesome autocompletion, static analysis and refactoring library for python.
MIT - mkdocs (🥇40 · ⭐ 22K · 📈) - Project documentation with Markdown.
BSD-2 - wheel (🥈38 · ⭐ 550 · 📈) - The official binary distribution format for Python.
MIT - pipx (🥉36 · ⭐ 12K · 📈) - Install and Run Python Applications in Isolated Environments.
MIT - Scalene (🥈35 · ⭐ 13K · 📈) - Scalene: a high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, and memory..
Apache-2
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Projects that have a lower project-quality score compared to the last update. There might be a variety of reasons such as decreased downloads or code activity.
- packaging (🥈38 · ⭐ 710 · 📉) - Core utilities for Python packages.
❗Unlicensed - pytest-xdist (🥈36 · ⭐ 1.8K · 📉) - pytest plugin for distributed testing and loop-on-..
MIT - pytype (🥉33 · ⭐ 5K · 📉) - A static type analyzer for Python code.
Apache-2 - pdoc (🥈33 · ⭐ 2.5K · 📉) - API Documentation for Python Projects.
❗️MIT-0 - flake8-bugbear (🥈32 · ⭐ 1.1K · 📉) - A plugin for Flake8 finding likely bugs and design..
MIT
Update: 2026.01.15
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Projects that have a higher project-quality score compared to the last update. There might be a variety of reasons, such as increased downloads or code activity.
- setuptools (🥇45 · ⭐ 2.8K · 📈) - Official project repository for the Setuptools build system.
MIT - loguru (🥈38 · ⭐ 23K · 📈) - Python logging made (stupidly) simple.
MIT - sphinx_rtd_theme (🥈38 · ⭐ 5K · 📈) - Sphinx theme from Read the Docs.
MIT - PDM (🥈37 · ⭐ 8.5K · 📈) - A modern Python package and dependency manager supporting the latest PEP..
MIT - Birdseye (🥉22 · ⭐ 1.7K · 📈) - Graphical Python debugger which lets you easily view the values of..
MIT
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Projects that have a lower project-quality score compared to the last update. There might be a variety of reasons such as decreased downloads or code activity.
- pre-commit (🥇42 · ⭐ 15K · 📉) - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit..
MIT - structlog (🥈38 · ⭐ 4.5K · 📉) - Simple, powerful, and fast logging for Python.
Apache-2 - invoke (🥈36 · ⭐ 4.7K · 📉) - Pythonic task management & command execution.
BSD-2 - flit (🥉33 · ⭐ 2.2K · 📉) - Simplified packaging of Python modules.
BSD-3 - flake8-bugbear (🥈33 · ⭐ 1.1K · 📉) - A plugin for Flake8 finding likely bugs and design..
MIT
Update: 2026.01.08
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Projects that have a higher project-quality score compared to the last update. There might be a variety of reasons, such as increased downloads or code activity.
- ruff (🥇47 · ⭐ 45K · 📈) - An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.
MIT - Glances (🥇39 · ⭐ 31K · 📈) - Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for..
❗️LGPL-3.0 - sphinx_rtd_theme (🥈37 · ⭐ 5K · 📈) - Sphinx theme from Read the Docs.
MIT - pytype (🥉34 · ⭐ 5K · 📈) - A static type analyzer for Python code.
Apache-2 - rope (🥇34 · ⭐ 2.2K · 📈) - a python refactoring library.
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Projects that have a lower project-quality score compared to the last update. There might be a variety of reasons such as decreased downloads or code activity.
- rich (🥇44 · ⭐ 55K · 📉) - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the..
MIT - sphinx (🥇44 · ⭐ 7.6K · 📉) - The Sphinx documentation generator.
❗Unlicensed - isort (🥈42 · ⭐ 6.9K · 📉) - A Python utility / library to sort imports.
MIT - Nuitka (🥇40 · ⭐ 14K · 📉) - Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python. Its fully..
Apache-2 - pipx (🥉35 · ⭐ 12K · 📉) - Install and Run Python Applications in Isolated Environments.
MIT
Update: 2026.01.01
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Projects that have a higher project-quality score compared to the last update. There might be a variety of reasons, such as increased downloads or code activity.
- poetry (🥈42 · ⭐ 34K · 📈) - Python packaging and dependency management made easy.
MIT - playwright-python (🥇41 · ⭐ 14K · 📈) - Python version of the Playwright testing and..
Apache-2 - mimesis (🥈34 · ⭐ 4.7K · 📈) - Mimesis is a fast Python library for generating fake data in multiple..
MIT - pylint-django (🥈31 · ⭐ 620 · 📈) - Pylint plugin for improving code analysis for when..
❗️GPL-3.0 - flake8-simplify (🥉23 · ⭐ 200 · 📈) - A flake8 plugin that helps you to simplify code.
MIT
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Projects that have a lower project-quality score compared to the last update. There might be a variety of reasons such as decreased downloads or code activity.
- setuptools (🥇43 · ⭐ 2.8K · 📉) - Official project repository for the Setuptools build system.
MIT - mkdocs (🥇39 · ⭐ 22K · 📉) - Project documentation with Markdown.
BSD-2 - pytest-xdist (🥈38 · ⭐ 1.8K · 📉) - pytest plugin for distributed testing and loop-on-..
MIT - ruff (🥈31 · ⭐ 45K · 📉) - An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.
MIT - alive-progress (🥉29 · ⭐ 6.2K · 📉) - A new kind of Progress Bar, with real-time throughput, ETA,..
MIT