c0fec0de/anytree

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1090 stars · 135 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

Anytree is a lightweight Python library providing powerful tree data structures with nodes, mixins, walkers, renderers, and importers/exporters. It supports building, traversing, and visualizing hierarchical data, including Graphviz dot export.

Use cases

• build a tree data structure in python
• walk and traverse tree nodes
• render a tree as ascii text
• export tree to graphviz dot file
• represent hierarchical data like org charts or file systems
• add parent-child relationships to existing python classes

When to choose

• you need a simple, pure-python tree structure without heavy dependencies
• you want to mix tree behavior into your own classes via NodeMixin
• you need tree rendering, walking, or dot export out of the box

When to avoid

• you need high-performance trees for millions of nodes
• you need specialized trees like red-black or B-trees
• you work outside the Python ecosystem

Facets

library · maturity stable

developer-tools data-science developer-tools data-science python cross-platform tree-structure tree-walk node-tree dot-exporter hierarchical-data algorithms

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