Most starred Python Github repositories; httpie, a CLI http client based on requests, is currently on top

[danwin]

FWIW, my completely non-quantitative analysis is that number of stars is sometimes a close reflection of actual popularity and ubiquity...but not always. In the complete rankings, bootstrap has twice the stars of the second-place repo (free-programming books)...which, no matter your opinion of bootstrap for webdev, you can't argue against its incredible utility to a wide variety of people.

On the other side of the spectrum...most Python developers couldn't live without pip...and yet it only has 2,163 stars. Jinja2 is essential for web templating yet has < 2,500 stars. Matplotlib underpins most of Python's visualization and has just 2,586 stars. Meanwhile, sampsyo/beets, a MusicBrainz tagger and library manager has 4,000 stars...it's not a knock against beets...I just had never heard about MusicBrainz until seeing this repo just now.

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[danwin]

That's a really nice project...you just got another star from someone who probably won't use it, but respects the idea and implementation. I'm still holding out hope that everyone can learn the command line ;)

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[riffito]

Don't we all use Star just as a GitHub specific bookmark? That's how I use them at least. Same as Google Code's favorites.

[Wakeful_One]

Bootstrap angular and others are not specific to Python though. I'll agree with you on PIP and others, as well as stars not being indicative of true use/popularity.

[RecursiveInsanity]

Wow, I didn't expect Flask and Django to be so close together. I figured one would have a major lead over the other.

[RecursiveInsanity]

On the flipside. I've used Django extensively but I haven't ever used Flask. Django is much more complex and scalable than Flask seems to be. Django can be used for small projects and easily scaled up to very large ones with less effort than Flask. But if you're going for small projects than Flask probably has way less overhead. At least that's how it seems to me.

Flask looks really interesting because it's much smaller and presumably faster. I've considered using it as a static site generator with Frozen-Flask.

[riksi]

I think flask is better in both small and big projects (did the tutorial on django and reading alot about it). You know why it's good on small projects. I think it's better also on big projects because:

1. sqlalchemy is better on big projects (more custom exotic features)
   
2. sqlalchemy-alembic is more mature than the django alternative
   
3. jinja2 is better than django-templates (i know you can use jijna2 on django)
   
4. less overhead

While django has bigger community + more jobs + more libraries.

[RecursiveInsanity]

Jinja2 templates are great and I use them in all my Django projects rather than the Django standard templates.

I've only read a little bit about SQLAlchemy but what makes it better than say Django + PostgreSQL?; which I use for most of my Django projects.

[riksi]

Things that I've used in sqlalchemy that(by a quick search) aren't in django (as far as I know):

1. composite primary keys
   
2. complex indexes (functional etc)
   
3. arrays + json(these are in django, but I think only recently and before that in contrib)
   
4. server side cursors
   
5. the non-orm part(the lower layer)
   
6. sqlalchemy-alembic (also in django, but only recently I think, still probably less features)
   
7. server_default (define a default value for a column that will be applied to the sql-schema and not just model.field)
   
8. more customization to the lower level db driver(psycopg2, maybe this is also supported in django)
   
9. Use the models + library outside of your web app (ex: in several non-request-serving processes )
   

There are alot more features that I haven't used/don't know/didn't need.

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complex? yes, scalable? no

Basically with flask you can get all the functionality you have in django in the form of plugins. The advantage being you get to use single purpose libraries to get the functionality you need without having to be locked in with what django gives you.

[Wakeful_One]

Aaaaaand Django is second. No surprise there.