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cclauss/Ten-lines-or-less
Python scripts that are short but useful or interesting
A collection of short Python scripts, most targeting the Pythonista iOS app. It's a personal snippet drawer that someone kept on GitHub, not a general-purpose utility library.
CI is well-maintained for a casual repo — pre-commit, lint, and Sphinx docs all run on push. The scripts targeting general Python (sqlite introspection, zip reading from GitHub, trending Python scraper) are genuinely handy one-liners. Active as of July 2026, so it's not abandoned. The constraint itself is pedagogically useful — seeing how much you can do in ten lines is a good exercise.
The majority of scripts require Pythonista, an iOS app that costs money and runs only on iPhone/iPad — which makes most of the repo dead weight for anyone on a desktop. There's no categorization or index beyond a flat file list, so finding a useful script means scrolling through filenames. No tests beyond linting. At 616 stars it has more social proof than actual utility for most developers.