---
id: hbutils
version: "0.14.2"
license: Apache License, Version 2.0
license_treatment: permissive
maintenance: active
---

# hbutils — Some useful functions and classes in Python infrastructure development.

License: permissive · Maintenance: active · Downloads: 110.5K/mo

## What it is and what it does

hbutils is a broad utility library organized into multiple modules, each addressing a specific area of Python infrastructure: algorithms (linear mapping, topological sorting), binary I/O, collections (grouping, deduplication), color models, concurrency (ReadWriteLock), design patterns (Singleton), encoding and hashing, file operations, logging with colored output, object reflection, random generation, string processing, system information, and testing utilities. It's designed to be cross-platform and works on Windows, Ubuntu, and macOS across Python 3.7 through 3.13 with both CPython and PyPy implementations.

The package is intended as a grab-bag of helpers to reduce boilerplate in infrastructure code—you import the specific module you need rather than using the whole library. Its dependencies are all mainstream packages (packaging, setuptools, pytimeparse, bitmath, chardet, deprecation, importlib-metadata, typing-extensions), so adding it to a project carries minimal risk. The library is actively maintained and marked Production/Stable in its classifiers.

Use it for:

- Implement piecewise linear interpolation or topological sorting without writing custom algorithms.
- Add colored logging output and multi-line message formatting to existing applications.
- Parse and convert between color models (RGB, HSV, HLS) for graphics or visualization tasks.
- Retrieve file metadata and perform low-level binary I/O operations.
- Build unit tests with isolation, capture utilities, and test data generation helpers.
- Access Python object introspection and manipulation utilities for metaprogramming tasks.

## Worth the install?

AI-flagged interpretation of the facts above — verify before relying.

hbutils is a collection of utility modules covering algorithms, data structures, file operations, logging, encoding, reflection, and testing tools for Python infrastructure development.

Yes. hbutils is actively maintained, carries no known vulnerabilities, has low install friction, and offers a permissive Apache License, Version 2.0. It's useful as a selective import library—grab the specific modules you need rather than committing to the whole package. Best suited for infrastructure and utility code where you want to avoid reinventing common patterns.

## Install

pip install hbutils
uv add hbutils
poetry add hbutils

## Installing hbutils

Before you install: Low install friction with a pure-Python wheel distribution. Active maintenance with a recent release and ongoing commits. Eight runtime dependencies are all stable, well-established packages.

License in practice: Apache License, Version 2.0 is permissive; you can use, modify, and distribute hbutils in commercial and proprietary projects with minimal restrictions, provided you include the license notice.

Quickstart:

pip install hbutils

from hbutils.algorithm import linear_map
f = linear_map((0, 1, 0.5))
print(f(0.25))  # 0.5

Verify before relying:

- Whether all documented modules are fully functional in version 0.14.2 or if some are experimental.
- Performance characteristics and typical use-case scale for the collection and concurrent modules.
- Whether the reflection module's introspection capabilities work reliably across all listed Python implementations.

## Package facts

- License: Apache License, Version 2.0 (permissive)
- Python support: supports_current
- Install friction: low
- Maintenance: active
- Downloads: 110.5K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

python utility library, algorithms and data structures, file and system utilities, testing helpers, encoding and hashing, reflection and introspection, concurrent utilities, design patterns, utility-library, infrastructure-helpers, multi-domain

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