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Top 23 C Python Projects
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MicroPython
MicroPython - a lean and efficient Python implementation for microcontrollers and constrained systems
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InfluxDB
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Pygame
🐍🎮 pygame (the library) is a Free and Open Source python programming language library for making multimedia applications like games built on top of the excellent SDL library. C, Python, Native, OpenGL.
Hi everyone! I'm excited to share a fun personal project I built recently: a retro-style 2D racing game made with Pygame. It's called 🎮 Atari Speed Racer, and it brings back those classic vibes of dodging traffic at high speeds!
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CPython-Internals
Dive into CPython internals, trying to illustrate every detail of CPython implementation
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openrazer
Open source driver and user-space daemon to control Razer lighting and other features on GNU/Linux
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https://libera.chat is what Freenode turned into after Freenode imploded. Really great communities there - F/OSS-centric, yes, but there are good unofficial channels for cloud services, and even some proprietary software and services, like vscode, AWS, Azure, Oracle, etc.
ZNC is an excellent way to keep history between your IRC sessions: https://github.com/znc/znc And WeeChat is an excellent companion to ZNC and libera.chat: https://github.com/weechat/weechat And IRC for Android is an excellent IRC client that also plays well with ZNC: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.countercul... Cheers!
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- Project mention: SpaCy: Industrial-Strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) in Python | news.ycombinator.com | 2025-08-23
Edit: I almost forgot to add this little nugget of history: one of Huggingfaces first projects was a SpaCy extension for conference resolution. Built before their breakthrough with transformers https://github.com/huggingface/neuralcoref
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syslog-ng
syslog-ng is an enhanced log daemon, supporting a wide range of input and output methods: syslog, unstructured text, queueing, SQL & NoSQL.
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See the comments on https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38113396 for a list of alternatives. I used https://github.com/sahib/rmlint in the past and can't complain.
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Themis
Easy to use cryptographic framework for data protection: secure messaging with forward secrecy and secure data storage. Has unified APIs across 14 platforms.
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SaaSHub
SaaSHub - Software Alternatives and Reviews. SaaSHub helps you find the best software and product alternatives
NOTE: The open source projects on this list are ordered by number of github stars. The number of mentions indicates repo mentiontions in the last 12 Months or since we started tracking (Dec 2020).
C Python discussion
C Python related posts
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MicroPython v1.27 Released
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Ask HN: What are you working on? (Dec 2025)
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Austin 4 Released
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Run ancient Unix on modern hardware
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Recursive macros in C, demystified (once the ugly crying stops)
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x86-64 Playground – An online assembly editor and GDB-like debugger
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FastAPI & PostgreSQL Sharding: A Step-by-Step Guide (Part 2) - Step-by-Step Implementation
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Index
What are some of the best open-source Python projects in C? This list will help you:
| # | Project | Stars |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | MicroPython | 21,232 |
| 2 | Pygame | 8,527 |
| 3 | omi | 7,374 |
| 4 | edk2 | 5,659 |
| 5 | circuitpython | 4,415 |
| 6 | CPython-Internals | 4,365 |
| 7 | glad | 4,347 |
| 8 | pocketsphinx | 4,242 |
| 9 | openrazer | 4,133 |
| 10 | psycopg2 | 3,594 |
| 11 | aubio | 3,579 |
| 12 | audioFlux | 3,212 |
| 13 | Weechat | 3,196 |
| 14 | pycryptodome | 3,168 |
| 15 | neuralcoref | 2,885 |
| 16 | permafrost-engine | 2,730 |
| 17 | syslog-ng | 2,297 |
| 18 | rmlint | 2,227 |
| 19 | austin | 2,148 |
| 20 | soloud | 2,019 |
| 21 | pocketpy | 1,982 |
| 22 | Themis | 1,944 |
| 23 | alpr-unconstrained | 1,755 |
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