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🔩 Like builtins, but boltons. 250+ constructs, recipes, and snippets which extend (and rely on nothing but) the Python standard library. Nothing like Michael Bolton.

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Last GitHub push: Sep 8, 2026
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mahmoud/boltons#509 · Opened Sep 19, 2026
daterange with a month step raises 'day is out of range for month' when start is on the 29th-31st Open

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mahmoud/boltons#500 · Opened Sep 16, 2026
FilePerms cannot revoke permission bits: setting a field to a subset of its value is a no-op on int(fp) Open

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mahmoud/boltons#480 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
fileutils.rotate_file(keep=1) deletes the file it just rotated; keep=N retains N-1 generations Open

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mahmoud/boltons#479 · Opened Sep 7, 2026
Improve Test Suite Documentation Open

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mahmoud/boltons#390 · Opened Oct 27, 2025
Frozen versions of bolton's data structures Open

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mahmoud/boltons#385 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 11, 2025
Type hints Open

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mahmoud/boltons#373 · 2 comments · 3 reactions · Opened Jul 12, 2024
tracking some ideas Open

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mahmoud/boltons#347 · 4 comments · Opened Aug 24, 2023
chunked filter Open

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mahmoud/boltons#344 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 4, 2023
Convert list of dict items to list of string items Open

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mahmoud/boltons#331 · Opened Mar 24, 2023
attrs/dataclasses-style decorator helper Open

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mahmoud/boltons#324 · Opened Jan 25, 2023
Support latest Python versions Open

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mahmoud/boltons#314 · 1 comment · Opened Jul 6, 2022
Feature request: intersection and union of lists of ranges Open

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mahmoud/boltons#311 · 1 comment · Opened May 27, 2022
windowed with overlap Open

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mahmoud/boltons#310 · Opened May 26, 2022
boltons.urlutils.URL cannot handle some characters in credentials Open

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mahmoud/boltons#309 · Opened May 16, 2022
question: how to get `remap` to ignore lists Open

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mahmoud/boltons#304 · Opened Mar 18, 2022
`FunctionBuilder.from_func` not working Open

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mahmoud/boltons#301 · 1 comment · Opened Mar 10, 2022
Proposal: shorten long string by truncate chars (not by words) Open

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mahmoud/boltons#299 · Opened Jan 30, 2022
21.0.0: sphinx warnings Open

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mahmoud/boltons#296 · 1 comment · Opened Oct 27, 2021
Logging boltons Open

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mahmoud/boltons#292 · Opened Sep 12, 2021
__version__ field Open

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mahmoud/boltons#290 · 3 comments · Opened Jul 20, 2021
typename Open

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mahmoud/boltons#289 · Opened Jun 10, 2021
Allow adding a kwonly arg with "expected" in wraps Open

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mahmoud/boltons#282 · Opened Mar 12, 2021
URL comparison is order-based for query parameters Open

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mahmoud/boltons#280 · 2 comments · Opened Mar 4, 2021
dict get_all() Open

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mahmoud/boltons#266 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Oct 14, 2020
auto recursive module importer Open

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mahmoud/boltons#256 · 3 comments · Opened May 13, 2020
Python 3 style iterable defaults Open

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mahmoud/boltons#255 · 3 comments · 1 reaction · Opened May 6, 2020
RFE: enhance IndexedSet to inherit from set Open

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mahmoud/boltons#225 · 3 comments · Opened Oct 1, 2019
Proposal: exponential retry, singleton, http_proxy functions Open

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mahmoud/boltons#214 · 1 comment · Opened Jun 11, 2019
boltons.namedutils.namedlist definition using dataclasses style type annotations. Open

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mahmoud/boltons#213 · Opened May 14, 2019
itertools.product with configurable type Open

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mahmoud/boltons#208 · 4 comments · Opened Apr 15, 2019
Copy cd, temp_environ, temp_path from vistir Open

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mahmoud/boltons#206 · Opened Feb 21, 2019
Adding parameters with wraps() Open

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mahmoud/boltons#201 · 8 comments · Opened Feb 8, 2019
Adding type hints Open

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mahmoud/boltons#190 · 13 comments · 7 reactions · Opened Nov 28, 2018
Proposal to add a few functions Open

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mahmoud/boltons#186 · 4 comments · 1 reaction · Opened Nov 2, 2018
iterutils.replaced -- replace instances of A with B Open

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mahmoud/boltons#170 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 13, 2018
numpy multi-dimensional slices? Open

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mahmoud/boltons#148 · 1 comment · Opened Nov 30, 2017
Time zones don't support fold Open

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mahmoud/boltons#141 · 3 comments · Opened Sep 17, 2017
funcutils.wraps compile implementation should be done differently [bug] Open

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mahmoud/boltons#138 · Opened Sep 5, 2017
dict rupdate() Open

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mahmoud/boltons#125 · 4 comments · Opened May 4, 2017
cacheutils.LRU.on_miss behavior Open

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mahmoud/boltons#124 · 3 comments · Opened Apr 15, 2017
Add lookahead to iterutils Open

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mahmoud/boltons#95 · 5 comments · Opened Sep 24, 2016
debugutils - Try to use ipdb then fall back to pdb Open

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mahmoud/boltons#92 · Opened Sep 16, 2016
Improving documentation of boltons.timeutils.daterange() Open

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mahmoud/boltons#91 · 1 comment · Opened Sep 9, 2016
remerge - dictionaries with arrays as values fail (slightly) Open

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mahmoud/boltons#81 · 8 comments · Opened Jun 15, 2016
Functions to work with json structures Open

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mahmoud/boltons#48 · 4 comments · Opened Sep 26, 2015

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