audeer

What it is and what it does

audeer is a general-purpose utility library that bundles small, frequently-needed Python functions into a single package. It handles common tasks like listing files by type, managing multi-threaded operations, and wrapping progress bar display through its single external dependency, tqdm. The package is designed to be lightweight and is classified as Production/Stable, supporting Python 3.10 through 3.14.

Developers typically use audeer to avoid writing or importing scattered utility functions across projects. Its main value is consolidation—reducing boilerplate for file operations, threading patterns, and progress feedback in scripts and applications that don't warrant a full framework dependency.

Use it for:

• List files of a specific type from a directory tree without writing custom logic
• Add progress bars to loops and long-running operations via tqdm integration
• Manage multi-threaded tasks using built-in threading utilities
• Build data processing pipelines that need common file and progress utilities
• Reduce boilerplate in research scripts that perform file I/O and batch operations

Worth the install?

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audeer provides a collection of lightweight utility functions for common Python tasks including file path handling, multi-threading, and progress bar display.

Yes. audeer is actively maintained, has no known vulnerabilities, carries a permissive MIT license, and adds only one lightweight dependency. It is worth installing if your project needs file utilities, threading helpers, or progress bar integration and you prefer a single consolidated import over scattered utility functions.

Install

audeer on PyPI

pip install audeer

uv add audeer

poetry add audeer

Installing audeer

Before you install

Low install friction with a single lightweight dependency (tqdm). Actively maintained with a recent release; supports current Python versions.

License in practice

MIT license permits use in both open-source and proprietary projects with minimal restrictions.

Quickstart

pip install audeer

import audeer

files = audeer.list_file_names("data", filetype="wav")

Requires Python 3.10 or later.

Verify before relying

• Specific list of all utility functions and their use cases beyond file paths, threading, and progress bars
• Performance characteristics or benchmarks for multi-threading utilities
• Whether the package is suitable for production audio processing or primarily a general utility collection

Package facts

Evidence: audeer-2.5.0-py3-none-any.whl

Keywords: Python, tools

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