Open Source Python Command Line Tools - Page 4

fgen is a free command line tool that facilitates cross platform c++ development, including header generation, cpp file generation, makefile generation, unit test framework generation, etc.

Alpha test of an XML based HDF reader

Kirk is essentially a command line tool for locally generating clean HTML code with the help of kirk markup - "kirkup". One could also say that it's a content management system. We'll see once it starts to take form.

LZHW Command Line Lossless Compression Tool is a Windows command line tool used to compress and decompress files from and to any form, csv, excel etc without any dependencies or installations. Using an optimized algorithm (LZHW) developed from Lempel-Ziv, Huffman and LZ-Welch algorithms. The tool can work in parallel and most of its code is written in Cython, so it is pretty fast. It is based on python lzhw library. Full tool documentation can be found at: https://mnoorfawi.github.io/lzhw/6%20Using%20the%20lzhw%20command%20line%20tool/ While the documentation for the python library is at: https://mnoorfawi.github.io/lzhw/

THIS PROJECT MIGRATED TO https://gitlab.com/mwetoolkit/mwetoolkit3/ The Multiword Expressions toolkit aids in the automatic identification and extraction of multiword units in running text. These include idioms (kick the bucket), noun compounds (cable car), phrasal verbs (take off, give up), etc. Even though it focuses on multiword expresisons, the framework is quite complete and can also be useful in any corpus-based study in computational linguistics. The mwetoolkit can be applied to virtually any text collection, language, and MWE type. It is a command-line tool written mostly in Python. Its development started in 2010 as a PhD thesis but the project keeps active (see the SVN logs). Up-to-date documentation and details about the tool can be found on the mwetoolkit website: http://mwetoolkit.sourceforge.net/

A CLI tool for painless integration of mypy with an existing Python project. When you run it for the first time, it will remember all types of errors that you already have in the project (generate “baseline”). All consecutive runs will ignore these errors and report only the ones that you introduced after that.

pyMP is short for python music player. It started out in 2004 as a command line tool for playing cd's. The scope of the project kinda grew and now it is a fully functional MP3 player with a GUI. Check it out :)

Command-line tool for automatically renaming TV video files using titles grabbed from various TV listing sites.

q is a command line tool that allows direct execution of SQL-like queries on CSVs/TSVs (and any other tabular text files). q treats ordinary files as database tables, and supports all SQL constructs, such as WHERE, GROUP BY, JOINs etc. It supports automatic column name and column type detection, and provides full support for multiple encodings. q fully supports all types of encoding. Use -e data-encoding to set the input data encoding, -Q query-encoding to set the query encoding, and use -E output-encoding to set the output encoding. Sensible defaults are in place for all three parameters. Files with BOM: Files which contain a BOM (Byte Order Mark) are not properly supported inside python's csv module. q contains a workaround that allows reading UTF8 files which contain a BOM - Use -e utf-8-sig for this. The plan is to separate the BOM handling from the encoding itself, which would allow to support BOMs for all encodings.

Reddo is a command line tool to translate any pair of languages using web translators such google, babelfish or others.

Repren is a “rename anything” command-line tool that performs regex-based search and replace across file contents while also renaming or moving files and directories according to patterns. It’s meant for sweeping refactors: change a class or package name everywhere and update filenames to match in one pass. The design favors explicitness and safety, providing dry-run output so you can preview exactly what will change before executing it. It handles recursive directory walks, lets you filter which files to touch, and supports multiple patterns in a single run to keep transformations consistent. Because it’s script-friendly, it slots well into project maintenance, codebase migrations, or release engineering tasks. The goal is to give you a reliable, repeatable alternative to ad-hoc shell loops when large-scale text and filename changes are needed.

rnb - Really Nice Backup - Command line tool for backing up your files to a removabe drive. This program is not under active development. Known bugs in the current version: - Automatic mounting of the backup drive does not work. This can be worked around by mounting the drive before running the program. - Installation fails in some newer distributions.

simple-modern-uv is a minimal yet production-ready Python project template that uses the uv toolchain to streamline dependency management, virtualenvs, and packaging. It aims to be “small but serious,” giving you the essentials—testing, linting, type checking, formatting, GitHub Actions—without burying you in boilerplate. The layout is opinionated around a pyproject.toml so configuration is centralized and easy to inspect. Defaults encourage good hygiene from day one, including reproducible builds and a clean release workflow to PyPI. Because the template is intentionally compact, it’s easy to understand and customize for libraries, CLIs, or small services. It’s a fast way to start new Python projects with modern tooling and guardrails already in place.

User friendly command line tool for adjusting movie subtitles in various formats. Support for converting from one format to another (currently microdvd, subrip, TMplayer, CSV but more to come). Time stamps adjustment. Show duration of subtitle adjustment

This repository is now hosted in github: https://github.com/juantascon/tvcmd tvcmd is a command line tool to keep track of tv shows episodes, it has a similar purpose of websites such as myepisodes.com followmy.tv or mytvshows.org but for the command line.

yoni is a linux command line tool which ensures that chosen applications run only when chosen vpn connection is active.

As of 2015-06-02, this project is no longer under active development.