Three more tools went in, plus a structural change that’s probably the bigger story this time.
The regex tester is straightforward, take a pattern, take a text, run re.findall(), wrapped in a try/except to catch re.error for bad patterns instead of crashing. Nothing fancy but it’s the kind of utility that earns its keep.
Lorem ipsum generator was a chance to use random.choices() properly, a fixed word bank, pick k words at random with replacement, join with spaces. Simple, but it’s the first tool that leans on random instead of secrets.
Process killer is the one I’m happiest with. It pulls every running process via psutil.process_iter(), sorts by memory usage, and prints a clean top-30 table. A second function, kill_process(), takes a process name, loops through and terminates matches, with try/except for NoSuchProcess and AccessDenied so it doesn’t blow up on protected system processes. Eventually want a GUI version of this with a red kill button next to the list, but that’s a later project, not blocking this one.
The bigger change: split the single utilities.py into proper modules. utilities.py now holds system/image/QR/password/unit-convert/process tools, security.py has hashing, password checking, encryption, vuln scanning, and firewall checks, network.py has the network tools, and text_tools.py has base64, JSON, case conversion, regex, and lorem ipsum. main.py got restructured into category submenus (System, Utilities, Security, Network, Text & Data) instead of one flat list. Toolkit is sitting at 20 tools now and the codebase is a lot easier to navigate.
Only thing left before this ships: menu polish, colorama for color, cleaner separators, and a version number in the header.