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Whimsy is a small, highly hackable window manager written in Python.

It’s currently around 1000 lines SLOC… and supports a tiny bit of the Extended Window Manager Hints (EWMH) spec.

PAWK aims to bring the full power of Python to AWK-like line-processing.

Benjen is a tiny static blog generator. At its heart is a <100 line Python script, which takes in your templates and blog entries and produces a static site.

Scrapy is a fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework, used to crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated testing.

Marks-as-read Google Reader feed items that match a specified filter.

Via Macdrifter.

PyGopherd is the most powerful gopher server available—and a unique HTTP server as well. It can serve documents with Gopher+, standard Gopher (RFC1436), and HTTP, all on the same port.

Command-line tool for querying PyPI and Python packages installed on your system.

pythonz is a program to automate the building and installation of Python in the users $HOME.

Pypush continuously monitors your local directory and immediately uploads any changes you make to your specified remote directory… You can also just make some changes locally, then periodically run pypush to synchronize all those changes to the remote directory.

What sets pypush apart is its real-time sync, and its integration with git.

 See also

• esync.sh
• GoodSync

A Python library for accessing the Twitter API.

This Python module provides a very simple interface to read the contents of your Safari Reading List.

The included readinglistreader.py script lets you work with Reading List items as plain text or a bookmarks file, which makes it easy to add your Reading List to bookmarking/read later services, mail yourself a digest of links, &c.

Via MacStories’ Automatically Send Articles From Reading List to Instapaper.

Subliminal is a python library to search and download subtitles. It uses video hashes and the powerful guessit library that extracts informations from filenames or filepaths to ensure you have the best subtitles.

git-sweep is a command-line tool that helps you clean up Git branches that have been merged into master.

Boto is a Python package that provides interfaces to Amazon Web Services. The goal of boto is to support the full breadth and depth of Amazon Web Services.