Al Sweigart

A cross-platform GUI automation Python module for human beings. Used to programmatically control the mouse & keyboard.

A Python library that controls your computer's mouse and keyboard through code, move the cursor, click buttons, type text, press shortcuts, take screenshots, and click on-screen images, all without touching the actual input devices.

Python module for cross-platform clipboard functions.

A collection of text-based games written in Python 3 that only use "standard i/o".

My first Tic Tac Toe program. I welcome any code reviews and pull requests!

A human-readable regular expression module for Python.

A simple, cross-platform module for obtaining GUI information on applications' windows.

"Hacking Secret Ciphers with Python" programs

A Pythonic interface to the Gmail API.

PyScreeze is a simple, cross-platform screenshot module for Python 2 and 3.

A nicely-documented, pure-Python wrapper for the Windows API for Python 2 and 3.

A bot that plays the Sushi Go Round flash game using PyAutoGUI.

A simple tutorial for Python's turtle.py. This tutorial is meant to be easily translated into languages besides English.

A set of tweening / easing functions implemented in Python.

The input() and raw_input() functions with added validation features for text-based programs.

A collection of text-based games in Python and other languages.

A Pythonic interface to the Google Sheets API.

A Python simulator for the dice game Zombie Dice that can run bot AI players.

Random source code files of recursive algorithms.

Simple, cross-platform, pure Python module to display message boxes, and just message boxes.

Source text for "Invent Your Own Computer Games with Python, 3rd Edition"

The source code for the programs in "The Big Book of Small Python Projects"

The source code for the game programs for the book, "Making Games with Python & Pygame"

Various turtle drawing programs in Python

A project to derive the map data for the original NES Legend of Zelda game so that it can be used in hobbyist projects.

This package installs the modules used in "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python", 2nd Edition.

A multithreaded programming demonstration in Python & Pygame using a "Nibbles" clone.

A readme for Al's GitHub repos. (Resume supplement)

IDLE Reimagined is the code name for a redesign for Python's default IDLE editor with focus as an educational tool.

A collection of "scroll art" computer animation programs in several languages, suitable for teaching/learning to code.

A cross-platform Python module that displays **** for password input. Works on Windows, unlike getpass. Formerly called stdiomask.

Text Adventure Demo

If your app only needs buttons, this cross-platform GUI toolkit for Python gives you a configurable grid of buttons.

A Python module to control a running instance of Audacity through its macro system.

An application to display XY position and RGB color information for the pixel currently under the mouse. Works on Python 2 and 3.

Source code for the programs in The Recursive Book of Recursion

Sprite animation module for Pygame

Fetch your public IP address from external sources with Python.

A cookiecutter template for basic Python projects.

Command line program that outputs ASCII art of the current moon phase. (Vibe coding experiment in Python.)

Python 8-direction mouse gesture recognition library

A Python script that checks Reddit for Imgur posts and downloads the corresponding images.

A single .html file JavaScript app that you can throw on your website to test it for 404s, load times, etc. Free. No paywalls. No registration. No install.

A command line program to display moon phases as ASCII art. (This is a vibe coding experiment in Rust.)

A collection of links to free games with no ads.

A cross-platform Python module for entering passwords and displaying a **** mask, which getpass cannot do.

:books: Freely available programming books

A collection of ASCII art, stored in a single JSON file.

Website version of Christopher Manson's 1985 book, Maze: Solve the World's Most Challenging Puzzle

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A module to improve "file/command not found" error messages with "did you mean" suggestions.

A cross-platform Python 2/3 module for colorful, text-based terminal programs.

A simple, basic Sudoku class in Python. Suitable for programming tutorials or experimentation.

Opens a browser window to maps.google.com based on your clipboard contents.

Directory of free Python ebooks

This package installs the modules used in “Automate the Boring Stuff with Python”, 3rd Edition.

A module to install the dependencies for the projects in The Big Book of Small Python Projects

A module for creating fractal art in Python's turtle module.

A cross-platform clipboard monitoring and recording tool. Only works for text.

A simple, cross-platform Python 2/3 module to detect mouse and keyboard input.

Gorilla.py is a Python & Pygame remake of the classic QBasic game, gorilla.bas

TSOFA - The Simple, Offline Flashcard App. Written in JavaScript for browsers.

A simple Button UI class for Pygame

Practice exercises in pattern recognition, ideal for beginner and intermediate programmers.

PyRect is a simple module with a Rect class for Pygame-like rectangular areas.

Shows a simplified view of the call stack.

This package installs the modules used in "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python", 6th Edition.

Definitions of Pardon jargon to help Python beginners understand Pythonista gobbletigook

A simple collection of validation functions that work on strings, suitable for use in other applications.

Run pip to install packages from the Python interactive shell aka REPL.

This package installs the modules used in “Automate the Boring Stuff with Python”, 2nd Edition.

This package installs the modules used in “Automate the Boring Stuff with Python”, 1st Edition.

Implementations of recursive functions that will infuriate cs professors but are still technically recursive.

A simple way to draw text and ascii art to a 2D grid "canvas" in Python.

A tutorial system for learning the shell/command line. For Windows and macOS/Linux.

A Pythonic interface to the Google Drive API.

A Python app for taking a screenshot, reading the text with OCR, and copying the text to the clipboard. And it's free.

Creating better transcripts/subtitles for PyCon videos on YouTube.

A cross-platform Python module that provides a clear() function which clears the terminal. That's all.

A set of tools (written in Python) for solving Wordle puzzles.

The programs used in Al Sweigart's book, "The Recursive Book of Recursion"

Cross-platform copy() and paste() functions for images.

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A Python module to generate unambiguous strings for URL shortners or similar services.

Example implementations of the practice projects in Automate the Boring Stuff with Python

Al's various Lua scripts for the Minecraft mod, ComputerCraft.

A silly module to control the keyboard LEDs of the CapsLock, NumLock, and ScrollLock keys to flash Morse Code on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

A Python module to show the steps in evaluating an expression.

An optimized implementation of the Quicksort algorithm in Python.

A clock timer that provides sleep()-like features for maintaining a certain "frames per second" (FPS) framerate in Python 2 and 3.

A Python script that generates Mondrian-style art.

A Firefox and Chrome browser plugin that hides seemingly unmaintained PyPI packages from search results.

Additional boolean values: KindaTrue, KindaFalse, VeryTrue, and VeryFalse. (This is a joke project.)

A Python module of generators that generate x, y coordinates for various vector shapes such as lines, rectangles, etc. Named after Bresenham of line-algorithm fame.

Python best practices guidebook, written for Humans.

Files for my PyTexas 2025 3-hour tutorial, "Python Tools for the Real World"

A re-implementation of the Unix watch command in Python.

Provides print() and sleep() functions to use a <textarea> element as a terminal console. Formerly named BextJS.

Une mise en œuvre espagnole du module de turtle.py de Python.

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Android Studio projects that implement the 50 hacks in Carlos Sessa's "50 Android Hacks" book published by Manning.

An automated grader for the exercises in the book Python Programming Exercises, Gently Explained

A satirical Python coding challenge to make programmers think about how the software they make can be misused to violate privacy and civil rights.

A Python media index

Windows command line executable to copy the current working directory to the clipboard.

Python Packaging User Guide

A Python module for safely working the file system in a safe, auditable way.

Cross-platform Python module to play mp3, wav, opus, and ogg audio sound files, built on Pygame.

A Python module for text-based drawing using DOS "box-drawing" characters.

Turtle.py code that draws the impossible shapes of artist Oscar Reutersvärd.

A Pythonic interface to the Google Calendar API.

A Pygame program to let you wander the NES Legend of Zelda overworld map.

A Python package for producing printable calendars in PDF, SVG, and PNG formats.

A boring text in-browser console, written in JavaScript.

Exercism exercises in Python.

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A Python module for making recursive drawings (aka Droste effect) with the built-in turtle module.

An IP address geolocation module for Python 3 that only uses the standard library.

A single-file offline JavaScript app to generate custom graph paper.

Caesar Cipher cipherwheel implementation for the browser, written in JavaScript.

The source code for alsweigart.com

This package installs the modules used in "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python", 5th Edition.

Crypto 101, the introductory book on cryptography.

Simple cross-platform colored terminal text in Python

Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax. Powered by Python.

A repository of AI-generated solutions to the programming problems on ProjectEuler.net

A curses-like module that can display a grid of text characters in a Pygame Surface object.

raspberry pi python-games upstream repo for asb/spindle some games modified to allow mouse clicking on keyboard only games. Original games from inventwithpython.com/pygame

A Python program that generates art in the style of Francois Morellet's 1960 piece, "Random Distribution of 40,000 Squares Using the Odd and Even Numbers of a Telephone Directory"

Complete web pages with the code examples from Fabric.js tutorials. No code snippets! Full, runnable code!

A Python modules that produces multiline strings of basic shapes as ASCII art, in configurable sizes and styles.

A record of my Project Euler solutions. Elegance Not Guaranteed.

A Python module for producing PNG and PDF files of customized graph paper.

A simple Python module that produces ASCII art of seven-segment display numbers.

Simple, free JavaScript browser app to turn your phone into a full-screen sign. Single .html file, works offline.

A basic example of turning a Python function into an MCP server.

A simulation of Rock Paper Scissors units chasing each other in a GUI window. Highly configurable.

Collection of simple, free, stand-alone Python games made for the turtle.py module.

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Code that generates a Choose Your Own Adventure tic tac toe game to be printed as a zine. This is a silly project.

Examples for the scikit class

A learning environment for Python suited for beginners and children, inspired by Logo.

This package installs the modules used in "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python", 4th Edition.

Template for a basic Pelican blog.

An interactive Conway's Game of Life with a GUI, built in Python using only Tkinter.

borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF files in python.

Website source for inventwithscratch.com

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A mini-language of shortcut instructions to carry out turtle.py function calls.

An optimized merge sort algorithm implemented in Python.

Instruktioner-Code is a presentation web app of step-by-step instructions for people learning to code (and the Swedish word for "Instructions").

Easy to use Python library for creating 2D arcade games.

Website source for scrollart.org

Python for Scratch programmers. Built on Pygame.

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A virtual museum maker web app that works offline.

A JavaScript clone of Lightbot, an old programming game in Flash. Works offline.

A web game meant for automation bots to play, inspired by the clock scene from Metropolis

Collection of simple, free, stand-alone JavaScript games that work offline.

Generate a color swatche image based on pixel color frequency of an image.

The GitHub Pages Site of Al Sweigart

A feature-rich Python module to generate random names from the US Census database.

Python One-Time Password Library

A handbook for instructors for teaching Scratch programming to young adults. Produced by the Museum of Art and Digital Entertainment.

A memory puzzle game. Featured in the book, "Making Games with Python & Pygame".

An artistic Python module for creating bitmap textures and dithering patterns, similar to ones used in old Macintosh games.

Mairzy doats and dozy doats and liddle lamzy divey. Python 4.0 and PEP8 compliant.

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A Python range()-like function that also supports infinite iterators so your for loop can be finite or infinite.

A browser-based Othello game written in TypeScript with FabricJS.

Random experiments and examples I'm making with Fabric.js

A set of short lessons for the Fabric.js graphics library in the style of svg-tutorial.com

An API to create multiline strings of box-drawing line characters.

An app written in Python & tkinter to demo tkinter's widgets. Similar to wxPython's demo program.

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SublimeREPL - run an interpreter inside ST2 (Clojure, CoffeeScript, F#, Groovy, Haskell, Lua, MozRepl, NodeJS, Python, R, Ruby, Scala, shell or configure one yourself)

A list data structure that is 12-based rather than 0-based, patterned after clocks.

Level up your programming skills. Want to contribute? Read this: https://github.com/exercism/exercism.io#contributing-to-exercism

Get keyboard language layout settings on Windows, macOS, and Linux.

A cross-platform Python 3 module for colorful, boring, text-based terminal programs built on top of PDCurses and curses.

A RimWorld mod that adds advanced solar generators. (A bit OP.)

A RimWorld mod that adds zero-cost packaged survival meals. Totally overpowered.

A RimWorld mod that adds a trait that makes your pawn overpowered. Ideal for single-pawn games.

A RimWorld mod that adds new materials: MetaSteel, MetaMetaSteel, and MetaMetaMetaSteel.

A web app that lets you "play" any image as a maze.

A Python program that lets you live edit the text contents of the clipboard with custom Python code

A text editor widget for Pygame.

A genre of bitmap art that mimics flip dot display transitions.

A Content Patcher mod for Stardew Valley that adds trees in a variety of colors.

A pure Python tkinter app for demonstrating RGB color values.

Create PDFs for zine printing. Handles imposition (page layout on sheets of paper).

A Python module for generating, playing, and solving Tents and Trees puzzles.

A Python module for generating, playing, and solving Hashiwokakero (Bridges) puzzles.

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Python related videos and metadata powering PyVideo.

My personal experiments with webrtc.

Adding Moogle NPCs with this Stadew Valley mod.

Parser for Python Regular Expression Strings. Pronounced "pap-rees."

A collection of simple mods for Stardew Valley, meant to be learning examples rather than useful mods.