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24 alternatives to Visual Python – open source visual Python code generator

GUI-based Python code generator for data science, extension to Jupyter Lab, Jupyter Notebook and Google Colab. - visualpython/visualpython

Visual Python is an open-source code generator that creates Python code through a visual interface. It's designed for developers and data scientists who want to write Python without manually typing code. The tool… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes. Visual Python – open source visual Python code generator launched in 2021; newer entries below may have overtaken it.

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    Hey HN, Scripton (https://scripton.dev) is a Python IDE built for fast, interactive visualizations and exploratory programming — without the constraints of notebooks. Why another Python IDE? Scripton hopes to fill a gap in the Python development ecosystem by being an IDE that: 1. Focuses on easy, fast, and interactive visualizations (and exposes rich JS plotting libraries like Observable Plot and Plotly directly to Python) 2. Provides a tightly integrated REPL for rapid prototyping and exploration 3. Is script-centric (as opposed to, say, notebook-style) A historical detour for why…

    2025 · scripton.dev · its alternatives →

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    Through months of design, prototypes, and user tests we made a visual version of SQL - which has proven to enable 80% of business users to write complex quer…

    2020 · chartio.com · its alternatives →

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    Some highlights: - 100% free and open source (https://github.com/alexmojaki/futurecoder), no ads or paid content. - No account required at any point. You can start instantly. (You can create an account if you want to save your progress online and across devices. Your email is only used for password resets) - 3 integrated debuggers can be started with one click to show what your code is doing in different ways. - Enhanced tracebacks make errors easy to understand. - Useful for anyone: You can have the above without having to look at the course. IDE mode…

    2023 · futurecoder.io · its alternatives →

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    2020 · timothycrosley.github.io · its alternatives →

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    A vim-like in Python. Contribute to vyapp/vy development by creating an account on GitHub.

    2019 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! We’ve forked Jupyter Lab and added AI code generation features that feel native and have all the context about your notebook. You can see a demo video (2 min) here: https://www.tella.tv/video/clxt7ei4v00rr09i5gt1laop6/view Try a hosted version here: https://pretzelai.app Jupyter is by far the most used Data Science tool. Despite its popularity, it still lacks good code-generation extensions. The flagship AI extension jupyter-ai lags far behind in features and UX compared to modern AI code generation and understanding tools (like…

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Latest News {{post_title link:post}} Previous Next No results found. Python Browse all Python answers Django Flask Pandas NumPy PyTorch Javascript Browse

    2017 · sourcetrail.com · its alternatives →

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    2012 · pytools.codeplex.com · its alternatives →

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    glot.io▲261

    An open source pastebin with runnable snippets and API

    2016 · glot.io · its alternatives →

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    It has been almost 10 years since I started the opencv-python packaging project. Scaling it to more than 100 million downloads as a side project showed me how much ease of installation and proper package distribution matter to users. It gave the computer vision ecosystem a noticeable boost. Now I have a new idea that I hope can help even more people across the broader software engineering world. A while ago, I realized I kept giving the same advice to teammates and friends when they ran into a programming issue they couldn't easily solve: go to GitHub and look at how others solved it. There…

    Jun 2026 · githits.com · its alternatives →

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    Taipy 3.0▲304

    Build powerful data and AI apps in pure Python

    2024 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey HN! I built a local Python prototyping tool that is finally the Python development environment I've always wanted. It has a Jupyter notebook for data crunching, a database of your choice (Python or MongoDB), and a Streamlit app for building a frontend visualization. You can edit the Streamlit backend via an embedded VSCode editor, or locally on your own IDE. The best part for me is that the database connectors within Jupyter and Streamlit are configured out-of-the-box, so you don't need to spend time thinking about how to tie all that together - you can just pick the database you want to…

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Hey all, I am Paul, an indie-dev, I am working on this web based Drag and drop GUI builder tool for python. It's still in beta and currently supports tkinter and customtk. It can generate clean code python for the UI you build. You can check out the source code here: https://github.com/PaulleDemon/PyUIBuilder Feel free to check it out. Thanks!

    2025 · pyuibuilder.com · its alternatives →

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    Recently, I write an interpreter for subset of Python using Go. I haven't seen source code of CPython, all is just written according to my understanding of Python so there may be some unusual things. Hope you can play fun with it. Any suggestion is welcome, glad to get some feedback.

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Visual QR code generator

    2015 · its alternatives →

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    Build animated charts in Jupyter Notebook and similar environments with a simple Python syntax. - vizzuhq/ipyvizzu

    2022 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    A simple Python debugger and profiler that generates animated visualizations of program flow, useful for algorithm learning. - CCExtractor/vardbg

    2020 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Create UIs using a visual editor, code the backend in Python

    2023 · its alternatives →

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    Dear HN, I am Riwaj, the cofounder of dstack.ai (https://github.com/dstackai). A few months ago, we built an online service that allows users to publish data visualizations from Python or R. The idea was to build a tool that did not require additional programming or front-end development for publishing data visualizations. Such a code can be invoked from either Jupyter notebook, RMarkdown, Python, or R scripts. Once the data is pushed, it can be accessed via a browser. Open-sourcing dstack: During our customer discovery phase, we realized that dstack.ai should integrate a lot…

    2020 · its alternatives →

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    been working on this for nearly a year

    2023 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    Today I'm open sourcing "Grid studio", a web-based spreadsheet application with full integration of the Python programming language.

    2019 · hackernoon.com · its alternatives →

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    Just wanted to share with HN a simple/minimal open source Python library that generates SVG files visualizing two dimensional data and distributions, in case others find it useful or interesting. I wrote it as a fun project, mostly because I found that the standard libraries in Python generated unnecessarily large SVG files. One nice property is that I can configure the visuals through CSS, which allows me to support dark/light mode browser settings. The graphs are specified as JSON files (the repository includes a few examples). It supports scatterplots, line plots, histograms,…

    Mar 2026 · github.com · its alternatives →

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    VisualQR▲111

    Generate beautiful QR codes using AI

    2023 · visualqr.co · its alternatives →

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