A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries and resources. Inspired by awesome-php.
- Awesome Python
- Environment Management
- Package Management
- Files
- Date and Time
- Text Processing
- Natural Language Processing
- Command-line Tools
- Documentation
- Imagery
- Audio
- Video
- Geolocation
- HTTP
- Database Drivers
- ORM
- Web Frameworks
- CMS
- RESTful API
- Authentication and OAuth
- Template Engine
- Queue
- Search
- Asset Management
- Caching
- Internationalization
- URL Manipulation
- HTML Manipulation
- Web Crawling
- Web Content Extracting
- Forms
- Anti-spam
- Networking
- Admin Panels
- DevOps Tools
- GUI
- Game Development
- Logging
- Testing
- Code Analysis and Linter
- Debugging Tools
- Science and Data Aanalysis
- Machine Learning
- MapReduce
- Third-party APIs
- Algorithms and Design Patterns
- Miscellaneous
- Foreign Function Interface
- High Performance
- Resources
Libraries for Python version and environment management.
- pyenv - Simple Python version management.
- virtualenv - A tool to create isolated Python environments.
- virtualenvwrapper - A set of extensions to virtualenv
Libraries for package and dependency management.
- pip / Python Package Index - The package and dependency manager.
- wheel - The new standard of python distribution and are intended to replace eggs.
- buildout - Python-based build system for creating, assembling and deploying applications from multiple parts, some of which may be non-Python-based. It lets you create a buildout configuration and reproduce the same software later.
Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.
- mimetypes - (Python standard library) Map filenames to MIME types.
- imghdr - (Python standard library) Determine the type of an image.
- python-magic - A Python interface to the libmagic file type identification library.
- path.py - A module wrapper for os.path.
- watchdog - API and shell utilities to monitor file system events.
- django-storages - A collection of custom storage backends for Django.
- Unipath - An object-oriented approach to file/directory operations.
Libraries for working with dates and times.
- arrow - Better dates & times for Python.
- dateutil - Extensions to the standard Python datetime module.
- delorean - A library for clearing up the inconvenient truths that arise dealing with datetimes in Python.
- when.py - Providing user-friendly functions to help perform common date and time actions.
- moment - A Python library for dealing with dates/times. Inspired by Moment.js.
Libraries for parsing and manipulating texts.
- difflib - (Python standard library) Helpers for computing deltas.
- Levenshtein - Fast computation of Levenshtein distance and string similarity.
- fuzzywuzzy - Fuzzy String Matching.
- esmre - Regular expression accelerator.
- phonenumbers - Library for parsing, formatting, storing and validating international phone numbers.
- python-user-agents - Browser user agent parser.
- shortuuid - A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs.
- tablib - A module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML.
- sqlparse - A non-validating SQL parser.
- Pygments - A generic syntax highlighter.
- python-slugify - A Python slugify library that handles unicode.
- unicode-slugify - A slugifier that generates unicode slugs. Developed by Mozilla.
- unidecode - ASCII transliterations of Unicode text.
- chardet - Python 2/3 compatible character encoding detector.
- xpinyin - A library to translate chinese hanzi (漢字) to pinyin (拼音).
- pangu.py - Spacing texts.
- python-docx - Reads, queries and modifies Microsoft Word 2007/2008 docx files.
- xlwt / xlrd - A package is for writing and reading data and formatting information from Excel files.
- XlsxWriter - A Python module for creating Excel .xlsx files.
- PyYAML - YAML implementations for Python.
- Name Parser - A simple Python module for parsing human names into their individual components.
Libraries for working with human languages.
- NLTK - A leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data.
- Pattern - A web mining module for the Python programming language. It has tools for natural language processing, machine learning, among others.
- TextBlob - Providing a consistent API for diving into common natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Stands on the giant shoulders of NLTK and Pattern, and plays nicely with both.
- jieba - Chinese Words Segementation Utilities.
- snownlp - A library for processing Chinese text.
- loso - Another Chinese segmentation library.
Libraries for building command line utilities.
- click - A package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way.
- clint - Python Command-line Application Tools.
- docopt - Pythonic command line arguments parser.
- colorama - Cross-platform colored terminal text.
Libraries for generating project documentation.
- Sphinx - Python Documentation generator.
- reStructuredText - Markup Syntax and Parser Component of Docutils.
- Python-Markdown - A Python implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown.
- MkDocs - Markdown friendly documentation generator.
Libraries for manipulating images.
- pillow - Pillow is the friendly PIL fork. PIL is the Python Imaging Library.
- thumbor - A smart imaging service. It enables on-demand crop, resizing and flipping of images.
- imgSeek - A project for searching a collection of images using visual similarity.
- python-qrcode - A pure Python QR Code generator.
- pygram - Instagram-like image filters.
- Quads - Computer art based on quadtrees.
- nude.py - Nudity detection.
- wand - Python bindings for MagickWand, C API for ImageMagick.
Libraries for manipulating audio.
- django-elastic-transcoder - Django + AWS Elastic Transcoder.
- beets - A music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger.
- pyechonest - Python client for the Echo Nest API.
- dejavu - Audio fingerprinting and recognition.
- pydub - Manipulate audio with a simple and easy high level interface.
- audioread - Cross-library (GStreamer + Core Audio + MAD + FFmpeg) audio decoding.
- mutagen - A Python module to handle audio metadata.
- tinytag - A library for reading music meta data of MP3, OGG, FLAC and Wave files.
Libraries for manipulating video and GIFs.
- moviepy - A module for script-based movie editing with many formats, including animated GIFs.
- shorten.tv - Video summarization.
- youtube-dl - A small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.
Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.
- GeoDjango - A world-class geographic web framework.
- geopy - Python Geocoding Toolbox.
- pygeoip - Pure Python GeoIP API.
- GeoIP - Python API for MaxMind GeoIP Legacy Database.
- geojson - Python bindings and utlities for GeoJSON.
Libraries for working with HTTP.
- requests - HTTP Requests for Humans™.
- httpie - A command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement.
Databases
- ZODB - a native object database for Python. A key-value and object graph database. Most transparent.
Libraties for connecting and operating databases
- Relational Databases
- mysql-python - The MySQL database connector for Python.
- psycopg2 - The most popular PostgreSQL adapter for the Python.
- NoSQL Databases
Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or datamapping techniques.
- Relational Databases
- Django Models - A part of Django.
- SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper.
- peewee - A small, expressive ORM.
- PonyORM - ORM that provides a generator-oriented interface to SQL.
- NoSQL Databases
- MongoEngine - A Python Object-Document-Mapper for working with MongoDB.
- redisco - A Python Library for Simple Models and Containers Persisted in Redis.
Web development frameworks.
- Django - The most popular web framework in Python.
- Flask - A microframework for Python.
- Bottle - A fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework.
- Pyramid - A small, fast, down-to-earth, open source Python web framework.
- web2py - A full stack web framework and platform focused in the ease of use.
- TurboGears - The Web Framework that scales with you. Starts as a microframework and scales up to a fullstack solution.
- Grok - A framework built on the existing Zope 3 libraries, offers a lot of building blocks for web development.
- CherryPy - A Minimalist Python Web Framework, HTTP/1.1-compliant and WSGI thread-pooled.
- Zope Toolkit - A set of libraries intended for reuse by projects to develop web applications or web frameworks.
- Bluebream - An open-source web application server, framework and library, created by the Zope community and formerly known as Zope 3.
Content Management Systems
- Mezzanine - A powerful, consistent, and flexible content management platform.
- Wagtail - A Django content management system.
- django-oscar - An open-source ecommerce framework for Django.
- Quokka CMS - Flexible, extensible, small CMS powered by Flask and MongoDB.
- Opps CMS - A Django-based CMS for magazines, newspapers websites and portals with high-traffic.
Libraries for developing RESTful APIs.
- django-rest-framework - A powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.
- django-tastypie - Creating delicious APIs for Django apps.
- flask-api - An implementation of the same web browsable APIs that django-rest-framework provides.
- flask-restful - An extension for Flask that adds support for quickly building REST APIs.
- falcon - A high-performance Python framework for building cloud APIs and web app backends.
- eve - REST API framework powered by Flask, MongoDB and good intentions.
- sandman - Automated REST APIs for existing database-driven systems.
Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.
- python-social-auth - An easy-to-setup social authentication mechanism.
- django-oauth-toolkit - OAuth2 goodies for the Djangonauts.
- django-oauth2-provider - Providing OAuth2 access to Django app.
- python-oauth2 - A fully tested, abstract interface to creating OAuth clients and servers.
- rauth - A Python library for OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0, and Ofly.
Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.
- Jinja2 - A modern and designer friendly templating language.
Libraries for working with event and task queues.
- celery - An asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.
- rq - Simple job queues for Python.
Libraries and software for indexing and performing search queries on data.
- django-haystack - Modular search for Django.
- elasticsearch-py - The official low-level Python client for Elasticsearch.
- solrpy - A Python client for solr.
- Whoosh - A fast, pure Python search engine library.
Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.
- django-compressor - Compresses linked and inline javascript or CSS into a single cached file.
Libraries for caching data.
- Beaker Caching & Sessions - Beaker is a library for caching and sessions for use with web applications and stand-alone Python scripts and applications.
- HermesCache - Python caching library with tag-based invalidation and dogpile effect prevention.
Libraries for sending and parsing email.
- inbox.py - Python SMTP Server for Humans.
- imbox - Python IMAP for Humans.
- django-celery-ses - Django email backend with AWS SES and Celery.
Libraries for woking with i18n.
- Babel - An internationalization library for Python.
Libraries for parsing URLs.
- furl - A small Python library that makes manipulating URLs simple.
- purl - A simple, immutable URL class with a clean API for interrogation and manipulation.
Libraries for working with HTML and XML.
- BeautifulSoup - Providing Pythonic idioms for iterating, searching, and modifying HTML or XML.
- lxml - A very fast, easy-to-use and versatile library for handling HTML and XML.
- html5lib - A standards-compliant library for parsing and serializing HTML documents and fragments.
- pyquery - A jQuery-like library for parsing HTML.
- cssutils - A CSS library for Python.
- MarkupSafe - Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python.
- bleach - A whitelist-based HTML sanitization and text linkification library.
- xmltodict - Working with XML feel like you are working with JSON.
Libraries for scraping websites.
- Scrapy - A fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework.
- portia - Visual scraping for Scrapy.
- feedparser - Universal feed parser.
- RoboBrowser - A simple, Pythonic library for browsing the web without a standalone web browser.
Libraries for extracting web contents.
- newspaper - News extraction, article extraction and content curation in Pythom.
- html2text - Convert HTML to Markdown-formatted text.
- python-goose - HTML Content/Article Extractor.
- lassie - Web Content Retrieval for Humans.
- micawber - A small library for extracting rich content from URLs.
- sumy - A module for automatic summarization of text documents and HTML pages.
- Haul - An Extensible Image Crawler.
- python-readability - Fast Python port of arc90's readability tool.
Libraries for working with forms.
- django-crispy-forms - A Django app which lets you create beautiful forms in a very elegant and DRY way.
- WTForms - A flexible forms validation and rendering library.
Libraries for fighting spam.
- Stopspam - Intelligent spam detection for Python.
- django-simple-spam-blocker - Simple spam blocker for Django.
- django-simple-captcha - A simple and highly customizable Django app to add captcha images to any Django form.
Libraries for network programming.
- gevent - A coroutine-based Python networking library that uses greenlet.
- Twisted - An event-driven networking engine.
- Tornado - A Web framework and asynchronous networking library.
- pyzmq - A python wrapper for the 0MQ message library.
Libraries for administrative interfaces.
- Ajenti - The admin panel your servers deserve.
- django-xadmin - Drop-in replacement of Django admin comes with lots of goodies.
- flask-admin - Simple and extensible administrative interface framework for Flask.
- flower - Real-time monitor and web admin for Celery.
Software and libraries for DevOps
- OpenStack - Open source software for building private and public clouds.
- Ansible - An IT automation tool.
- SaltStack - Infrastructure automation and management system.
- Fabric - Tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks.
- Fabtools - Tools for writing awesome Fabric files.
- cuisine - Chef-like functionality for Fabric.
- gunicorn - A WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX, fast clients and sleepy applications.
- Supervisor - A Process Control System.
- psutil - A cross-platform process and system utilities module.