Releases: ml-tooling/best-of-python-dev
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..
❗️SGI-B-2.0
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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..
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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.
❗️LGPL-3.0
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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
Update: 2025.12.25
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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 (🥇45 · ⭐ 7.6K · 📈) - The Sphinx documentation generator.
❗Unlicensed - robotframework (🥇43 · ⭐ 11K · 📈) - Generic automation framework for acceptance testing and..
Apache-2 - Nuitka (🥇41 · ⭐ 14K · 📈) - Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python. Its fully..
Apache-2 - nodeenv (🥈38 · ⭐ 1.8K · 📈) - Virtual environment for Node.js & integrator with virtualenv.
BSD-3 - mypy-protobuf (🥈31 · ⭐ 690 · 📈) - open source tools to generate mypy stubs from protobufs.
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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.
- tox (🥈39 · ⭐ 3.9K · 📉) - Command line driven CI frontend and development task automation tool.
MIT - Glances (🥇38 · ⭐ 31K · 📉) - Glances an Eye on your system. A top/htop alternative for..
❗️LGPL-3.0 - prospector (🥇31 · ⭐ 2.1K · 📉) - Inspects Python source files and provides information about..
❗️GPL-2.0 - buildout (🥉28 · ⭐ 610 · 📉) - Buildout is a deployment automation tool written in and..
❗️ZPL-2.1 - PyHamcrest (🥉26 · ⭐ 800 · 💀) - Hamcrest matchers for Python.
❗Unlicensed
Update: 2025.12.18
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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 - pipenv (🥇45 · ⭐ 25K · 📈) - Python Development Workflow for Humans.
MIT - pyenv-virtualenv (🥉24 · ⭐ 6.7K · 📈) - a pyenv plugin to manage virtualenv (a.k.a. python-..
MIT - python-devtools (🥉22 · ⭐ 1.1K · 💤) - Dev tools for python.
MIT - pylint-flask (🥉18 · ⭐ 64 · 💀) - A Pylint plugin to analyze Flask applications.
❗️GPL-2.0
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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.
- robotframework (🥇42 · ⭐ 11K · 📉) - Generic automation framework for acceptance testing and..
Apache-2 - twine (🥈37 · ⭐ 1.7K · 📉) - Utilities for interacting with PyPI.
Apache-2 - pyenv (🥈34 · ⭐ 44K · 📉) - Simple Python version management.
MIT - Griffe (🥈33 · ⭐ 580 · 📉) - Signatures for entire Python programs. Extract the structure, the..
ISC - vulture (🥈30 · ⭐ 4.2K · 📉) - Find dead Python code.
MIT
Update: 2025.12.11
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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.
- playwright-python (🥇40 · ⭐ 14K · 📈) - Python version of the Playwright testing and..
Apache-2 - twine (🥈38 · ⭐ 1.7K · 📈) - Utilities for interacting with PyPI.
Apache-2 - PDM (🥉37 · ⭐ 8.5K · 📈) - A modern Python package and dependency manager supporting the latest PEP..
MIT - sphinx_rtd_theme (🥈36 · ⭐ 5K · 📈) - Sphinx theme from Read the Docs.
MIT - pipreqs (🥉32 · ⭐ 7.4K · 📈) - pipreqs - Generate pip requirements.txt file based on imports of..
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.
- wemake-python-styleguide (🥈33 · ⭐ 2.8K · 📉) - The strictest and most opinionated python linter ever!.
MIT - ruff (🥈31 · ⭐ 44K · 📉) - An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter, written in Rust.
MIT - py2app (🥉24 · ⭐ 420 · 💀) - py2app is a Python setuptools command which will allow you to make..
MIT - python-devtools (🥉16 · ⭐ 1.1K · 💤) - Dev tools for python.
MIT - pylint-flask (🥉13 · ⭐ 64 · 💀) - A Pylint plugin to analyze Flask applications.
❗️GPL-2.0
Update: 2025.12.04
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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 (🥇46 · ⭐ 55K · 📈) - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the..
MIT - sphinx (🥇44 · ⭐ 7.5K · 📈) - The Sphinx documentation generator.
❗Unlicensed - poetry (🥈42 · ⭐ 34K · 📈) - Python packaging and dependency management made easy.
MIT - tox (🥇40 · ⭐ 3.9K · 📈) - Command line driven CI frontend and development task automation tool.
MIT - gast (🥈30 · ⭐ 150 · 📈) - Python AST that abstracts the underlying Python version.
BSD-3
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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.
- flake8 (🥇41 · ⭐ 3.7K · 📉) - Flake8 is a wrapper around these tools: PyFlakes; pycodestyle; Ned..
MIT - pyright (🥈38 · ⭐ 15K · 📉) - Static Type Checker for Python.
MIT - twine (🥈37 · ⭐ 1.7K · 📉) - Utilities for interacting with PyPI.
Apache-2 - pyautogui (🥈35 · ⭐ 12K · 💀) - A cross-platform GUI automation Python module for human beings...
BSD-3 - sphinx_rtd_theme (🥈35 · ⭐ 5K · 📉) - Sphinx theme from Read the Docs.
MIT
Update: 2025.11.27
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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.
- pre-commit (🥇43 · ⭐ 15K · 📈) - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit..
MIT - flake8 (🥇42 · ⭐ 3.7K · 📈) - Flake8 is a wrapper around these tools: PyFlakes; pycodestyle; Ned..
MIT - pipx (🥈38 · ⭐ 12K · 📈) - Install and Run Python Applications in Isolated Environments.
MIT - autopep8 (🥉37 · ⭐ 4.7K · 📈) - A tool that automatically formats Python code to conform to the PEP..
MIT - colorlog (🥈32 · ⭐ 940 · 📈) - A colored formatter for the python logging module.
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.
- pip (🥇46 · ⭐ 10K · 📉) - The Python package installer.
MIT - jedi (🥇41 · ⭐ 6.1K · 📉) - Awesome autocompletion, static analysis and refactoring library for python.
MIT - wemake-python-styleguide (🥇37 · ⭐ 2.8K · 📉) - The strictest and most opinionated python linter ever!.
MIT - PDM (🥉36 · ⭐ 8.5K · 📉) - A modern Python package and dependency manager supporting the latest PEP..
MIT - Scalene (🥈34 · ⭐ 13K · 📉) - Scalene: a high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, and memory..
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