Tom Ritchford

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.

Resumé: .pdf.md

My Python open source projects

This is a dashboard of my active Python open-source projects on Github, mostly small- to medium-sized libraries that try to do one useful thing as clearly and thoroughly as possible.

🌟 means "Stars"
👁 means "Subscribers"

🟢 means "Release version"
🕰 means "Most recent non-version commit"

(Last update 2025/04/28, 17:49:54 by https://github.com/rec/multi)

Production-ready

🧿 safer 🧿 (🌟 175 👁 3) A safer writer for files and streams 24/11/05🟢Update version to v5.1.0 24/11/05🕰Fix tests to work on Windows	🗃 tdir 🗃 (🌟 4 👁 2) Create and fill a temporary directory 24/01/25🟢Update version to v1.8.2 24/03/20🕰Bump black from 24.2.0 to 24.3.0
🖋 editor 🖋 (🌟 8 👁 2) Open the default text editor 24/01/25🟢Update version to v1.6.6 24/03/20🕰Bump black from 24.2.0 to 24.3.0	✂️ psplit ✂️ Split git patch files 25/04/28🟢Update version to v1.0.3 25/04/28🕰Modify README.md
🗜 gitz 🗜 (🌟 33 👁 3) Tiny useful git commands, some dangerous 24/01/04🟢Update version to v1.7.1 25/02/03🕰Add segments and test	🎨 nc 🎨 (🌟 4 👁 2) Named colors in Python 24/01/04🟢Update version to v1.0.2 24/02/14🕰Update dependencies
🗝 dtyper 🗝 (🌟 20 👁 3) Fix and improve `typer` 24/01/25🟢Update version to v2.5.1 24/02/14🕰Update dependencies	🏫 clsprop 🏫 (👁 2) Just like @property but for classes 24/01/25🟢Update version to v1.3.1 24/02/14🕰Update dependencies
🧵 threa 🧵 (🌟 2 👁 2) Better threads 24/01/04🟢Update version to v1.9.1 24/02/14🕰Update dependencies	⛏ sproc ⛏ (🌟 11 👁 2) Subprocesseses for subhumanses 24/01/25🟢Update version to v2.4.1 24/02/14🕰Update dependencies
🏺 fil 🏺 (🌟 3 👁 2) Read/write JSON/TOML/Yaml/txt 24/01/04🟢Update version to v1.4.3 24/02/14🕰Update dependencies	🌱 xmod 🌱 (🌟 4 👁 2) Turn any object into a module 24/01/04🟢Update version to v1.8.1 24/03/20🕰Bump black from 24.2.0 to 24.3.0
🛎 impall 🛎 (🌟 8 👁 2) Test-import all modules 24/01/25🟢Update version to v1.5.3 24/03/20🕰Bump black from 24.2.0 to 24.3.0	🗂 datacls 🗂 (🌟 2 👁 2) Take the edge off `dataclass` 24/01/25🟢Update version to v4.8.0 24/02/14🕰Update dependencies
🐜 abbrev 🐜 (🌟 4 👁 2) Expand abbreviations 24/01/04🟢Update version to v1.2.1 24/02/14🕰Update dependencies	🎴 dek 🎴 (🌟 3 👁 2) The decorator-decorator 24/01/25🟢Update version to v1.4.2 24/03/20🕰Bump black from 24.2.0 to 24.3.0

Beta

🥞 pullman 🥞 Manage ghstack pull requests 25/04/17🟢Update version to v0.10.0 25/04/17🕰Improve documentation	🏺 fil 🏺 (🌟 3 👁 2) Read/write JSON/TOML/Yaml/txt 24/01/04🟢Update version to v1.4.3 24/02/14🕰Update dependencies
🔢 plur 🔢 (👁 2) Simple universal word pluralizer 23/12/30🟢Update version to v1.0.0 24/02/14🕰Update dependencies	🍇 cfgs 🍇 (🌟 2 👁 2) XDG standard config files 23/10/05🟢Update version to v0.13.0 24/02/14🕰Update dependencies

Experimental

🌐 nmr 🌐 (👁 2) Name all canonical things 23/02/02🟢Update to version v0.9.1 25/02/22🕰Add a bad time parser	🎙 recs 🎙 (🌟 2 👁 2) recs: the Universal Recorder 24/01/07🟢Update version to v0.3.1 24/11/03🕰Fix code so tests pass on Windows
🔉 vl8 🔉 (🌟 3 👁 2) Perturbed audio 20/11/25🟢Version v0.2.0 24/02/14🕰Update dependencies	💡 litoid 💡 (👁 2) Sequence DMX lighting 24/02/14🕰Update dependencies
🗣 def_main 🗣 (👁 2) A decorator for main 23/02/02🟢Update to version v0.11.1 24/07/02🕰Return error codes correctly (see #1)	📓 hardback 📓 (👁 2) Hardcopy backups of digital data 19/06/08🟢New version v0.9.0 24/02/14🕰Update dependencies
📦 backer 📦 (👁 2) Continuously back up files 23/02/02🟢Update to version v0.7.2 24/02/14🕰Update dependencies

Personal

🐘 fortune 🐘 (👁 2) A Mastodon bot for /usr/games/fortune 24/02/14🕰Update dependencies	📚 multi 📚 (👁 2) Manage all my other projects 23/02/02🟢Update to version v0.1.0 24/02/14🕰Modify multi/commands/poetry.py
⬜🟩🟦🟥 blocks 🟥🟦🟩⬜ (👁 2) Solve a block puzzle 23/02/02🟢Update to version v1.0.1 24/01/25🕰Run mypy in strict mode	❓ test ❓ (👁 2) Tiny bits of experimental code 25/03/17🕰Random files
⚫ dotfiles ⚫ (👁 2) My dotfiles 25/04/09🕰Modify bash/aliases.sh, bash/experimental.sh, dotfiles/.bashrc

Mothballed

🌊 wavemap 🌊 (🌟 9 👁 3) Memory map WAVE or raw audio files 22/05/26🟢Version v2.0.1 24/02/14🕰Update dependencies	🛍 loady 🛍 (🌟 6 👁 2) Load Python code and data from git 24/02/14🕰Update dependencies
🏃 runs 🏃 (🌟 3 👁 3) Run a block of text as a subprocess 24/01/25🟢Update version to v1.2.2 24/02/14🕰Update dependencies