This page is a distribution center for free and open-source software written in the Python programming language. Its downloads span:
All code here is meant to be both useful and educational and is entirely free and advertising free. You are invited to help make it better with your feedback. For updates and tips for code here, see the programs support page. For book example code, see your book's support page.
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Related: hosted elsewhere but also by the makers of the software on this page, the PC-Phone USB Sync app syncs content folders between PCs and Android phones, uses Mergeall below, and is available on the Play store for Android and as a free download for PCs. For more info, tap the icon to the left, and see the prefaces added to subsumed pages like this. |
This section collects full programs that you can download and run on your macOS, Windows, and Linux PCs, as well as your Android smartphones and tablets. All are available as a self-contained macOS app, Windows exe, and Linux executable (which you simply install and run); plus a full and portable source-code package (which you run with your own Python interpreter or Android app). For download locations and more details, click each program's icon or name to go to its main page.
| PyEdit — Edit Text. Run Code. Have Fun. | |
| A Python/Tk text-editor and code-launcher GUI, that can be used as both standalone program and library component. PyEdit can serve as your go-to text editor, as well as a lightweight IDE that runs Python code and other content. For a quick preview, check out PyEdit's features and screenshots. |
| Frigcal — Personal Calendar GUI; No Login Required | |
| A Python/Tk calendar GUI, which stores your calendar entries in portable ICS files that work across platforms and programs. With Frigcal, your calendar data is your business, not something to be scanned and monetized by nosy companies. For a quick preview, tour Frigcal's features and screenshots. |
| Mergeall — Backup and Sync Your Stuff Your Way | |
| A Python/Tk GUI+script program that backs up and syncs content folders quickly and can serve as a manual but private alternative to cloud storage. With Mergeall, your stuff is your property, not someone else's point of control. For a quick preview, browse Mergeall's features and screenshots. |
| PyMailGUI — Email Without the Evil | |
| A Python/Tk email client GUI, which allows you to both send and receive email using your email accounts, and save and view it in offline files. With PyMailGUI, your email session is private, void of advertising, and off-limits to snoops. For a quick preview, explore PyMaiGUI's features and screenshots. |
| PyGadgets — GUI Toys, Just for the Hack of It | |
| A set of four Python/Tk desktop GUIs originally from the book PP4E—the PyCalc calculator, PyClock analog/digital clock, PyPhoto image viewer, and PyToe AI-based game—all upgraded, ported to macOS, and bundled as both executable and source. For a quick preview, see PyGadgets' screenshots. |
Among notables here: thumbspage creates web-page galleries for image folders; sitesearch adds search to websites; pylotto runs a web-based lottery; showcode formats text files for display; and genhtml generates a site's web pages from templates, inserting common parts automatically with HTML macros. Many of the programs here are used to build the site you are viewing.
| Program | Description | Images | Tools |
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| thumbspage | Turn folders into HTML image galleries | 1 2 3 4 | PIL/Pillow, piexif, Unicode |
| sitesearch | Add search to websites via CGI redirects | 1 2 3 | Web scripting, URLs |
| genhtml | Generate website files with static HTML inserts | 1 2 3 | Files, text, Unicode |
| showcode | Display text files nicely in HTML pages by CGI | 1 2 3 | Web scripting, Unicode |
| shrinkpix | Shrink images for faster (and politer) websites | 1 2 | PIL/Pillow, piexif, re
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| imapfetch | Fetch IMAP email folders from your server | 1 2 3 | Files, imaplib, email
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| pylotto | Give away Python books with an online lottery | 1 2 3 | email, websites, random
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| ip-anon | Add analytics code to anonymize IP addresses | 1 2 | Bytes files, Unicode |
| pixindex | Make/upload photos page+zipfile | 1 2 | zipfile, FTP, text
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| cleansite | Find unused files in a local website copy | 1 2 | HTML and URL parsing |
| findem | Android Opera work-around: find /* in <pre> | 1 | HTML parsing, folder trees |
| pystockmood | Guess stock-market mood from web-page text | 1 | re, urllib, page scraping
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| headcode | Insert or remove code in a folder's HTML files | 1 | Files, Unicode, bytes
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Among highlights here: deltas (a.k.a. Android Deltas Sync) syncs content from PCs to Android 11+ devices and others; iconify builds ".icns" and ".ico" files on both macOS and Windows; tagpix helps you organize your photo collections; and ziptools provides scripts and functions that zip and unzip archives anywhere, and fill in crucial support missing from Python's own zip module—symlinks, UTC times, cruft-file skips, and more.
| Program | Description | Images | Tools |
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| ziptools | The bits that Python's zipfile module forgot | 1 2 3 4 | os, zipfile, glob, struct
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| deltas sync | Sync content to Android 11+ devices by USB | 1 2 3 4 | ziptools, Mergeall, subprocess
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| tagpix | Combine your photos for viewing and saving | 1 2 3 | PIL/Pillow, re, text, files
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| iconify | Make Windows and Mac icon files anywhere | 1 2 | struct, PIL/Pillow, bytes
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| treesize | Report the size taken by each folder and file | 1 2 | os, files, recursion
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| unicodemod | Change a text file's Unicode encoding | 1 | Files, os, Unicode
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| fixeoln | Swap WindowsâUnix text endlines on either | 1 | Files, Unicode, 3.X+2.X |
| pickcolor | Map color ~ RGB string, RGB string ~ color | 1 2 | tkinter GUIs, 3.X+2.X
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| flatten-iTunes | Merge your iTunes or other music folders | 1 | Folders, files, text |
| debugtypes | Test function input/output types (decorator) | 1 | Decorators, types, bytes
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All examples here are provided in source-code form and run on macOS, Windows, Linux, and more, and all can be run from command lines, IDLE, PyEdit's Run Code, or other Python launching schemes.
| Example | Description | Images | Tools |
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| methods | Classmethods versus staticmethods | 1 | OOP class techniques |
| symlinks | Point absolute symlinks to a new root | 1 | os module, files
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| coroutines | Basic yield-based coroutines switcher | 1 2 | Functions, generators |
| generators | The evolution of Python generators | 1 | Functions, generators |
| checksums | Modtimes vs checksums for syncs | 1 | hashlib, os.stat, bytes
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| map/lambda | Nested loops via map+lambda and more | 1 | Loops, map, lambda
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| aca_utils | US health insurance premium tax credit | 1 | Basic math tools |
| timers | More on code timing (now LP5E) | 1 | time module
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| matrixes | More loops/comprehensions (now LP5E) | 1 | Iteration tools |
