ActiveState/code resource
ActiveState Code Recipes 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
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- you need guaranteed up-to-date code, as many recipes are legacy and outdated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
- readme: https://github.com/ActiveState/code · fetched 2026-08-28 · 1a8bd211a44f
- homepage: https://code.activestate.com · fetched 2026-08-29 · b8eb22578a71
- site_page: http://docs.activestate.com/ · fetched 2026-08-29 · 8743a8836ea5
- site_page: https://code.activestate.com/about · fetched 2026-08-29 · 46b9c2c94bf9
- site_page: https://code.activestate.com/ppm · fetched 2026-08-29 · f393ed583753
- site_page: https://code.activestate.com/pypm · fetched 2026-08-29 · 14f7a889d54e
- site_page: https://code.activestate.com/help/faq · fetched 2026-08-29 · 57d5a2e1e6a7
Member repositories
| Repository | Role | Health v2 |
|---|---|---|
| ActiveState/code | main | 32 |
For agents
markdown · JSON · MCP: product_card(name="ActiveState/code")
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