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I recently used uTidyLib after mxTidy didn't immediately install for me (such impatience). uTidyLib doesn't ship with any C code, but uses ctypes to interface directory with libtidy (the library version of HTML tidy).

I thought that was clever. Then I looked at the actual code that does the interfacing; then I was really impressed: the entire interface to tidy is 216 lines long. It's not incredibly easy to understand -- it's glue code, after all -- but it's really not too bad. And it's so short!