---
id: kitchen
version: "1.2.6"
license: LGPLv2+
license_treatment: copyleft
maintenance: abandoned
---

# kitchen — Kitchen contains a cornucopia of useful code

License: copyleft · Maintenance: abandoned · Downloads: 130.7K/mo

## What it is and what it does

Kitchen is a collection of small, reusable Python utility functions designed to avoid copy-pasting common snippets across projects. It focuses on Unicode text handling and Python 2–3 compatibility helpers, packaged as importable modules rather than inline code. The package was last updated on 2019-05-14 and is no longer actively maintained.

The library targets Python 2.4–2.7 and Python 3.3–3.4 as indicated by its classifiers. It was designed to solve problems common when those versions were in use. For new projects, standard library equivalents or actively maintained alternatives are likely safer choices.

Use it for:

- Handling Unicode text conversions in legacy Python 2/3 codebases that still need to run.
- Extracting small utility functions from an old project that used kitchen to avoid re-implementing them.
- Understanding historical approaches to Python 2–3 compatibility before the ecosystem standardized.
- Maintaining or patching an existing application that already depends on kitchen.

## Worth the install?

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

Kitchen provides a collection of small utility functions for Python 2 and 3 code, including helpers for Unicode text handling and Python version compatibility.

No, unless you are maintaining legacy code that already depends on kitchen. The package is abandoned (last release 2019-05-14), has high install friction, and targets obsolete Python versions. Modern Python projects should use standard library equivalents or actively maintained alternatives.

## Install

pip install kitchen
uv add kitchen
poetry add kitchen

## Installing kitchen

Before you install: High install friction due to source-only distribution (kitchen-1.2.6.tar.gz). The package is abandoned—last release was 2019-05-14, with no active maintenance visible.

License in practice: Licensed under LGPLv2+, a copyleft license requiring derivative works to be distributed under compatible terms. This may constrain how you can use or redistribute code that depends on kitchen.

Quickstart:

pip install kitchen

from kitchen.text.converters import to_unicode
text = to_unicode('hello')

Package classifiers indicate support for Python 2.4–2.7 and Python 3.3–3.4; compatibility with modern Python versions is unverified.

Verify before relying:

- Whether kitchen functions work correctly on modern Python versions despite classifiers listing only up to 3.4.
- Whether the Unicode and compatibility utilities remain relevant given standard library improvements.
- Whether the source distribution builds successfully on current systems without additional build dependencies.

## Package facts

- License: LGPLv2+ (copyleft)
- Python support: unspecified
- Install friction: high
- Maintenance: abandoned
- Downloads: 130.7K/month (top 15,000 on PyPI)
- Known vulnerabilities: none known

## Tags

python utility snippets, unicode text handling, python 2 3 compatibility, reusable code utilities, python helper functions, legacy, abandoned

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