# stevedonovan/penlight

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2,105 stars · 263 forks · Lua · MIT

## Links

- GitHub: https://github.com/stevedonovan/Penlight
- Homepage: https://lunarmodules.github.io/Penlight/
- awesome-repositories: https://awesome-repositories.com/repository/stevedonovan-penlight.md

## Description

A set of pure Lua libraries focusing on input data handling (such as reading configuration files), functional programming (such as map, reduce, placeholder expressions,etc), and OS path management.  Much of the functionality is inspired by the Python standard libraries.

## Tags

### Part of an Awesome List

- [Utility Libraries](https://awesome-repositories.com/f/awesome-lists/devtools/utility-libraries.md) — Broad utility library providing Python-like standard library features.