Pytool - Helpers for Python

Pytool is a Python helper package that contains a lot of helpful little methods and functions to make your life a little easier and your day a little better. Enjoy! These include:

• Command helpers for easily making CLI tools based on argparse

• Language helpers which implement common Python language constructs like singletons, namespace objects, class properties, and proxy objects

• Time helpers for easily working with UTC, relative times, and converting between formats

• Text helpers to respect console width when wrapping and printing

• JSON helpers for easily parsing and serializing JSON with customization

• … and more!

Pytool is compatible with Python 3.10 and higher. Older versions of Python are no longer supported going forward. If you need support for earlier Python versions, please check the releases for older versions of Pytool. Compatibility updated June 9, 2025.

Contributors

• shakefu (creator, maintainer)

• dshen109

• abendig

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Contents

• pytool: Python helper package
  • pytool.cmd: Command helpers
    • pytool.cmd.Command
  • pytool.json: JSON helpers
    • as_json()
    • from_json()
  • pytool.lang: Language helpers
    • Namespace
    • Keyspace
    • UNSET
    • classproperty()
    • get_name()
    • hashed_singleton()
    • singleton()
    • unflatten()
  • pytool.text: Text helpers
    • wrap()
    • columns()
  • pytool.time: Time and Date related helpers
    • Timer
    • UTC
    • as_utc()
    • utcnow()
    • fromutctimestamp()
    • toutctimestamp()
    • is_dst()
    • trim_time()
    • floor_day()
    • floor_minute()
    • floor_month()
    • floor_week()
    • make_week_seconds()
    • week_seconds()
    • week_seconds_to_datetime()
    • week_start()
    • ago()
  • pytool.proxy: DictProxy and ListProxy classes
    • DictProxy
    • ListProxy

Installation

Pytool is available on PyPI: http://pypi.python.org/pypi/pytool/.

pip install pytool

Contributing

Pytool is open source and available on Github: http://github.com/shakefu/pytool.

Any comments, issues or requests should be submitted via Github: https://github.com/shakefu/pytool/issues.

License

Pytool is licensed under the MIT License. See the LICENSE file for details.

Changelog

See the Changelog for a list of changes.

Indices and tables

• Index

• Module Index

• Search Page