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ActiveState/code resource

ActiveState Code Recipes observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/ActiveState/code · homepage · Python · MIT (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

32/100

  • Activity 0
  • Release rhythm 35
  • Longevity 100

Flags: no_releases

How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 3327
  • days_rel: n/a
  • days_push: 1602
  • n_releases_24m: 0

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1972 stars · 689 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A GitHub migration of the ActiveState Code Recipes site (code.activestate.com), a community collection of thousands of code snippets, utility functions, and recipes across many languages, most famously the Python Cookbook. Recipes are contributed via pull requests and indexed in the repo wiki.

Use cases

  • find a python snippet to parse or format text
  • learn common programming idioms from community recipes
  • contribute a useful utility function for others to reuse
  • browse the historical Python Cookbook recipes
  • find small code examples in perl, tcl, or other dynamic languages

When to choose

  • you want small, self-contained code snippets to learn from or copy into your project
  • you are looking for classic Python Cookbook recipes and community utilities
  • you want to share a useful snippet with a long-running community

When to avoid

  • you need a maintained, production-ready library with releases and dependency management
  • you need a searchable, curated package index rather than loose snippets
  • you need guaranteed up-to-date code, as many recipes are legacy and outdated

Facets

learning-resource · maturity maintenance

developer-tools documentation developer-tools programming-languages tutorials education cross-platform python code-recipes snippets python-cookbook community-contributed multi-language

7 sources

Member repositories

RepositoryRoleHealth v2
ActiveState/codemain32

For agents

markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="ActiveState/code")

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