A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome-php.
- Awesome Python
- Environment Management
- Package Management
- Distribution
- Build Tools
- Files
- Date and Time
- Text Processing
- Natural Language Processing
- Documentation
- Configuration
- Command-line Tools
- Downloader
- Imagery
- Audio
- Video
- Geolocation
- HTTP
- Database
- Database Drivers
- ORM
- Web Frameworks
- Permissions
- CMS
- RESTful API
- Authentication and OAuth
- Template Engine
- Queue
- Search
- News Feed
- Asset Management
- Caching
- Internationalization
- URL Manipulation
- HTML Manipulation
- Web Crawling
- Web Content Extracting
- Forms
- Data Validation
- Anti-spam
- Tagging
- Admin Panels
- Static Site Generator
- Processes and Threads
- Networking
- WebSocket
- WSGI Servers
- RPC Servers
- Cryptography
- GUI
- Game Development
- Logging
- Testing
- Code Analysis and Linter
- Debugging Tools
- Science and Data Analysis
- Data Visualization
- Computer Vision
- Machine Learning
- Functional Programming
- MapReduce
- Third-party APIs
- DevOps Tools
- Job Scheduler
- Foreign Function Interface
- High Performance
- Algorithms and Design Patterns
- Hardware
- Miscellaneous
- Editor Plugins
- Resources
- Other Awesome Lists
- Contributing
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
- pew - A set of tools to manage multiple virtual environments.
- Vex - Run a command in the named virtualenv.
- PyRun - A one-file, no-installation-needed version of Python.
Libraries for package and dependency management.
- pip / Python Package Index - The package and dependency manager.
- conda - Cross-platform, Python-agnostic binary package manager.
- Curdling - Curdling is a command line tool for managing Python packages.
- wheel - The new standard of Python distribution and are intended to replace eggs.
Libraries to create packaged executables for release distribution.
- cx-Freeze - Freezes Python scripts (cross-platform)
- py2exe - Freezes Python scripts (Windows)
- py2app - Freezes Python scripts (Mac OS X)
- PyInstaller - A program that converts Python programs into stand-alone executables (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and AIX)
- dh-virtualenv - Build and distribute a virtualenv as a Debian package.
Compile software from source code.
- buildout - A build system for creating, assembling and deploying applications from multiple parts, some of which may be non-Python-based.
- SCons - A software construction tool.
- PlatformIO - A console tool to build code with different development platforms.
- BitBake - A make-like build tool with the special focus of distributions and packages for embedded Linux.
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.
- Unipath - An object-oriented approach to file/directory operations.
- pathlib - An cross-platform, object-oriented path library (included in Python 3.4)
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.
- pytz - World timezone definitions, modern and historical. Brings the Olson tz database into Python.
Libraries for parsing and manipulating texts.
- General
- 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.
- shortuuid - A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs.
- awesome-slugify - A Python slugify library that can preserve unicode.
- python-slugify - A Python slugify library that translates unicode to ASCII.
- unicode-slugify - A slugifier that generates unicode slugs with Django as a dependency.
- 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 for CJK and alphanumerics.
- pyfiglet - An implementation of figlet written in Python.
- Specific Formats
- tablib - A module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML.
- python-docx - Reads, queries and modifies Microsoft Word 2007/2008 docx files.
- xlwt / xlrd - Packages is for writing and reading data and formatting information from Excel files.
- XlsxWriter - A Python module for creating Excel .xlsx files.
- mm - Python powered spreadsheets.
- PDFMiner - A tool for extracting information from PDF documents.
- PyPDF2 - A pure Python PDF library capable of splitting, merging and transforming PDF pages.
- Python-Markdown - A Python implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown.
- Mistune - Fastest and full featured pure Python parsers of Markdown.
- PyYAML - YAML implementations for Python.
- Parser
- phonenumbers - Library for parsing, formatting, storing and validating international phone numbers.
- python-user-agents - Browser user agent parser.
- sqlparse - A non-validating SQL parser.
- Pygments - A generic syntax highlighter.
- python-nameparser - A simple Python module for parsing human names into their individual components.
- schema - A library for validating Python data structures.
- pyparsing - A general purpose framework for generating parsers.
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.
- genius - A Chinese segment base on Conditional Random Field.
Libraries for generating project documentation.
- Sphinx - Python Documentation generator.
- reStructuredText - Markup Syntax and Parser Component of Docutils.
- MkDocs - Markdown friendly documentation generator.
- Pycco - The original quick-and-dirty, hundred-line-long, literate-programming-style documentation generator.
Libraries for storing configuration options.
- ConfigParser - (Python standard library) INI file parser.
- ConfigObj - INI file parser with validation.
- config - Hierarchical config from the author of logging.
- profig - Config from multiple formats with value conversion.
Libraries for building command-line application.
- Command-line Application Development
- cement - Cement provides a light-weight and fully featured foundation to build anything from single file scripts to complex and intricately designed applications.
- click - A package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way.
- clint - Python Command-line Application Tools.
- cliff - A framework for creating command-line programs with multi-level commands.
- Clime – Clime lets you convert any module into a multi-command CLI program without any configuration.
- docopt - Pythonic command line arguments parser.
- colorama - Cross-platform colored terminal text.
- Productivity Tools
- httpie - A command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement.
- percol - Adds flavor of interactive selection to the traditional pipe concept on UNIX.
- RainbowStream - Smart and nice Twitter client on terminal.
Libraries for downloading.
- s3cmd - A command line tool for managing Amazon S3 and CloudFront.
- youtube-dl - A small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.
- you-get - A YouTube/Youku/Niconico video downloader written in Python 3.
- coursera - Script for downloading Coursera.org videos and naming them.
- WikiTeam - Tools for downloading and preserving wikis.
Libraries for manipulating images.
- pillow - Pillow is the friendly PIL fork. PIL is the Python Imaging Library.
- wand - Python bindings for MagickWand, C API for ImageMagick.
- 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.
- pyBarcode - Create barcodes in Python without needing PIL.
- pygram - Instagram-like image filters.
- Quads - Computer art based on quadtrees.
- nude.py - Nudity detection.
- scikit-image - A Python library for (scientific) image processing.
- hmap - Image histogram remapping.
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.
- audiolazy - Expressive Digital Signal Processing (DSP) package for Python.
- talkbox - A Python library for speech/signal processing.
- TimeSide - Open web audio processing framework.
Libraries for manipulating video and GIFs.
- moviepy - A module for script-based movie editing with many formats, including animated GIFs.
- shorten.tv - Video summarization.
- scikit-video - Video processing routines for SciPy.
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™.
- urllib3 - HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post support, sanity friendly, and more.
- httplib2 - Comprehensive HTTP client library.
- treq - Python requests like API built on top of Twisted's HTTP client.
Databases implemented in Python.
- ZODB - A native object database for Python. A key-value and object graph database.
Libraries for connecting and operating databases.
- Relational Databases
- mysql-python - The MySQL database connector for Python.
- mysqlclient - mysql-python fork supporting Python 3.
- PyMySQL - Pure Python MySQL driver compatible to mysql-python.
- mysql-connector-python - A pure Python MySQL driver from Oracle.
- oursql - A better MySQL connector for Python with support for native prepared statements and BLOBs.
- psycopg2 - The most popular PostgreSQL adapter for Python.
- txpostgres - Twisted based asynchronous driver for PostgreSQL.
- NoSQL Databases
- cassandra-python-driver - Python driver for Cassandra by Datastax.
- pycassa - Python Thrift driver for Cassandra.
- PyMongo - The official Python client for MongoDB.
- redis-py - The Redis Python Client.
- py2neo - Python wrapper client for Neo4j's restful interface.
- telephus - Twisted based client for Cassandra.
- txRedis - Twisted based client for Redis.
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.
- django-mongodb-engine - Django MongoDB Backend.
- redisco - A Python Library for Simple Models and Containers Persisted in Redis.
Full stack web 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.
- web.py - A web framework for Python that is as simple as it is powerful.
- TurboGears - The Web Framework that scales with you. Starts as a microframework and scales up to a fullstack solution.
- CherryPy - A Minimalist Python Web Framework, HTTP/1.1-compliant and WSGI thread-pooled.
- Grok - A framework built on the existing Zope 3 libraries, offers a lot of building blocks for web development.
- Bluebream - An open-source web application server, framework and library, created by the Zope community and formerly known as Zope 3.
- guava - A lightweight and high performance web framework for Python written in C.
Libraries that allow or deny users access to data or functionality.
- Django Guardian - Implementation of per object permissions for Django 1.2+
- Carteblanche - Module to align code with thoughts of users and designers. Also magically handles navigation and permissions.
Content management systems
- Mezzanine - A powerful, consistent, and flexible content management platform.
- Wagtail - A Django content management system.
- django-oscar - An open-source e-commerce 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.
- Plone - Content Management System built on top of the open source application server Zope and the accompanying Content Management Framework.
- django-cms - An Open source enterprise content management system based on the django framework.
- djedi-cms - A lightweight but yet powerful Django content management system with plugins, inline editing and performance in mind.
Libraries for developing RESTful APIs.
- cornice - A REST framework for Pyramid.
- django-rest-framework - A powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.
- django-tastypie - Creating delicious APIs for Django apps.
- django-formapi - Create JSON APIs with HMAC authentication and Django form-validation.
- 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.
- flask-api-utils - Flask extension that takes care of API representation and authentication.
- 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.
- restless - Framework agnostic REST framework based on lessons learned from TastyPie.
Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.
- Authomatic - Simple but powerful framework agnostic authentication/authorization client package.
- OAuthLib - A generic, spec-compliant, thorough implementation of the OAuth request-signing logic.
- rauth - A Python library for OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0, and Ofly.
- python-oauth2 - A fully tested, abstract interface to creating OAuth clients and servers.
- 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.
- django-allauth - Authentication app for Django that "just works."
- Flask-OAuthlib - OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0 implementation of client and provider for Flask.
- sanction - A dead simple OAuth2 client implementation.
- jose - JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) draft implementation, useful for stateful tokens.
Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.
- Jinja2 - A modern and designer friendly templating language.
- Genshi - Python templating toolkit for generation of web-aware output.
- Mako - Hyperfast and lightweight templating for the Python platform.
- Chameleon - Chameleon is an HTML/XML template engine for Python. Modeled after ZPT, optimized for speed.
- Spitfire - A very fast Python template compiler.
Libraries for working with event and task queues.
- celery - An asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.
- huey - Little multi-threaded task queue.
- mrq - Mr. Queue - A distributed worker task queue in Python using Redis & gevent.
- rq - Simple job queues for Python.
- simpleq - A simple, infinitely scalable, Amazon SQS based queue.
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.
Libraries for building user's activities.
- Feedly - A library which allows you to build newsfeed and notification systems using Cassandra and/or Redis.
- django-activity-stream - Generate generic activity streams from the actions on your site.
Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.
- django-compressor - Compresses linked and inline javascript or CSS into a single cached file.
- jinja-assets-compressor - A Jinja extension (compatible with Flask and other frameworks) to compile and/or compress your assets.
- webassets - Bundles, optimizes, and manages unique cache-busting URLs for static resources.
- fanstatic - Packages, optimizes, and serves static file dependencies as Python packages.
- fileconveyor - Monitors changes, processes, and transports assets to CDNs and file storage systems.
- django-storages - A collection of custom storage backends for Django.
- glue - Glue is a simple command line tool to generate CSS sprites.
- libsass-python - A Python binding of libsass, the reference implementation of SASS/SCSS.
- Flask-Assets - Helps you integrate webassets into your Flask app.
Libraries for caching data.
- Beaker - A library for caching and sessions for use with web applications and stand-alone Python scripts and applications.
- dogpile.cache - dogpile.cache is next generation replacement for Beaker made by same authors.
- HermesCache - Python caching library with tag-based invalidation and dogpile effect prevention.
- django-cache-machine - Automatic caching and invalidation for Django models through the ORM.
- django-cacheops - A slick ORM cache with automatic granular event-driven invalidation.
- johnny-cache - A caching framework for django applications.
- django-viewlet - Render template parts with extended cache control.
- pylibmc - A Python wrapper around the libmemcached interface.
Libraries for sending and parsing email.
- inbox.py - Python SMTP Server for Humans.
- imbox - Python IMAP for Humans.
- inbox - The open source email toolkit.
- lamson - Pythonic SMTP Application Server.
- flanker - A email address and Mime parsing library.
- marrow.mailer - High-performance extensible mail delivery framework.
- django-celery-ses - Django email backend with AWS SES and Celery.
- modoboa - A mail hosting and management platform including a modern and simplified Web User Interface.
- envelopes - Mailing for human beings.
- mailjet - Mailjet API implementation for batch mailing, statistics and more.
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.
- pyshorteners - A pure Python URL shortening lib.
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.
- xhtml2pdf - HTML/CSS to PDF converter.
- untangle - Converts XML documents to Python objects for easy access.
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.
- MechanicalSoup - A Python library for automating interaction with websites.
Libraries for extracting web contents.
- newspaper - News extraction, article extraction and content curation in Python.
- 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.
- opengraph - A Python module to parse the Open Graph Protocol
Libraries for working with forms.
- WTForms - A flexible forms validation and rendering library.
- WTForms-JSON - A WTForms extension for JSON data handling.
- Deform - Python HTML form generation library influenced by the formish form generation library.
- django-crispy-forms - A Django app which lets you create beautiful forms in a very elegant and DRY way.
- django-remote-forms - A platform independent Django form serializer.
Libraries for validating data. Used for forms in many cases.
- voluptuous - A Python data validation library. It is primarily intended for validating data coming into Python as JSON, YAML, etc.
- dictshield - A fast way to validate and trim the values in a dictionary.
- colander - A system for validating and deserializing data obtained via XML, JSON, an HTML form post or any other equally simple data serialization.
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 tagging items.
- django-taggit - Simple tagging for Django.
Libraries for administrative interfaces.
- Ajenti - The admin panel your servers deserve.
- Grappelli – A jazzy skin for the Django Admin-Interface.
- django-suit - Alternative Django Admin-Interface (free only for Non-commercial use).
- 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.
Static site generator is a software that takes some text + templates as input and produces html files on the output.
- Pelican - Uses Markdown or ReST for content and Jinja 2 for themes. Supports DVCS, Disqus. AGPL.
- Cactus – Static site generator for designers.
- Hyde - Jinja2-based static web site generator.
- Nikola - A static website and blog generator.
- Tags - The simplest static site generator.
- Tinkerer - Tinkerer is a blogging engine/.static website generator powered by Sphinx.
Libraries for woking with processes or threads
- multiprocessing - (Python standard library) - Process-based "threading" interface.
- threading - (Python standard library) Higher-level threading interface.
- envoy - Python Subprocesses for Humans™.
- sh - A full-fledged subprocess replacement for Python.
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.
- pulsar - Event-driven concurrent framework for Python.
- diesel - Greenlet-based event I/O Framework for Python.
- eventlet - Asynchronous framework with WSGI support.
- pyzmq - A Python wrapper for the 0MQ message library.
- txZMQ - Twisted based wrapper for the 0MQ message library.
Libraries for woking with WebSocket.
- AutobahnPython - WebSocket & WAMP for Python on Twisted and asyncio.
- WebSocket-for-Python - WebSocket client and server library for Python 2 and 3 as well as PyPy.
- Crossbar - Open-source Unified Application Router (Websocket & WAMP for Python on Autobahn).
WSGI-compatible web servers.
- wsgiref - (Python standard library) WSGI reference implementation, single-threaded.
- Werkzeug - A WSGI utility library for Python that powers Flask and can easily be embedded into your own projects.
- paste - Multi-threaded, stable, tried and tested.
- rocket - Multi-threaded.
- waitress - Multi-threaded, poweres Pyramid.
- netius - Asynchronous, very fast.
- gunicorn - Pre-forked, partly written in C.
- fapws3 - Asynchronous (network side only), written in C.
- meinheld - Asynchronous, partly written in C.
- bjoern - Asynchronous, very fast and written in C.
RPC-compatible servers.
- SimpleXMLRPCServer - (Python standard library) Simple XML-RPC server implementation, single-threaded.
- SimpleJSONRPCServer - This library is an implementation of the JSON-RPC specification.
- zeroRPC - zerorpc is a flexible RPC implementation based on ZeroMQ and MessagePack.
- PyCA's Cryptography - cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.
Libraries for working with graphical user interface applications.
- PyQt - Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework, with support for both Qt v4 and Qt v5 frameworks.
- PySide - Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework, supporting the Qt v4 framework.
- wxPython - A blending of the wxWidgets C++ class library with the Python.
- kivy - A library for creating NUI applications, running on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android and iOS.
- curses - Built-in wrapper for ncurses used to create terminal GUI applications.
- urwid - A library for creating terminal GUI applications with strong support for widgets, events, rich colors, etc.
- pyglet - A cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python.
- Tkinter - Tkinter is Python's de-facto standard GUI package.
- enaml - Create beautiful user-interfaces with Declaratic Syntax like QML
Awesome game development libraries.
- Pygame - Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing games.
- Cocos2d - cocos2d is a framework for building 2D games, demos, and other graphical/interactive applications. It is based on pyglet.
- PySDL2 - A ctypes based wrapper for the SDL2 library.
- Panda3D - 3D game engine developed by Disney and maintained by Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center. Written in C++, completely wrapped in Python.
- PyOgre - Python bindings for the Ogre 3D render engine, can be used for games, simulations, anything 3D.
- PyOpenGL - Python ctypes bindings for OpenGL and it's related APIs.
- PySFML - Python bindings for SFML
Libraries for generating and working with log files.
- logging - (Python standard library) Logging facility for Python.
- logbook - Logging replacement for Python.
- Sentry - A realtime logging and aggregation server.
- Raven - The Python client for Sentry.
Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.
- Testing Frameworks
- unittest - (Python standard library) Unit testing framework.
- nose - nose extends unittest.
- pytest - A mature full-featured Python testing tool.
- mamba - The definitive testing tool for Python. Born under the banner of Behavior Driven Development (BDD).
- contexts - A modern and flexible Behaviour-Driven-Development framework for Python 3.3 and above, inspired by C#'s
Machine.Specifications.
- Mock
- Fake Data
- faker - A Python package that generates fake data.
- mixer - Generating fake data and creating random fixtures for testing in Django ORM, SQLAlchemy, Peewee, MongoEngine, Pony ORM and etc.
- model_mommy - Creating random fixtures for testing in Django.
- Code Coverage
- coverage - Code coverage measurement.
- Load Testing
- locust - Scalable user load testing tool written in Python.
- Error Handler
- FuckIt.py - FuckIt.py uses state-of-the-art technology to make sure your Python code runs whether it has any right to or not.
Libraries and tools for analysing, parsing and manipulation codebases.
- pysonar2 - A type inferencer and indexer for Python.
- Flake8 - The modular source code checker: pep8, pyflakes and co.
- Pylint - A source code analyzer.
- pycallgraph - Creates call graph visualizations for Python applications.
- pylama - The modular source code checker: pep8, pyflakes, pylint and co.
Libraries for debugging code.
- pdb - (Python standard library) The Python Debugger.
- ipdb - IPython-enabled pdb.
- winpdb - A Platform Independent Python Debugger with GUI.
- pudb – A full-screen, console-based Python debugger.
- pyringe - Debugger capable of attaching to and injecting code into Python processes.
- memory_profiler - Monitor Memory usage of Python code.
- django-debug-toolbar - Display various debug information about the current request/response.
- django-devserver - A drop-in replacement for Django's runserver.
Libraries for scientific computing and data analyzing.
- SciPy - A Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.
- NumPy - A fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.
- Numba - Python JIT (just in time) complier to LLVM aimed at scientific Python by the developers of Cython and NumPy.
- NetworkX - A high-productivity software for complex networks.
- Pandas - A library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools.
- Open Mining - Business Intelligence (BI) in Python (Pandas web interface)
- PyMC - Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.
- zipline - A Pythonic algorithmic trading library.
- PyDy - Short for Python Dynamics, used to assist with workflow in the modeling of dynamic motion based around NumPy, SciPy, IPython, and matplotlib.
- SymPy - A Python library for symbolic mathematics.
- statsmodels - Statistical modeling and econometrics in Python.
- astropy - A community Python library for Astronomy.
Libraries for visualizing data.
- matplotlib - A Python 2D plotting library.
- bokeh - Interactive Web Plotting for Python.
- plotly - Collaborative web plotting for Python and matplotlib.
- vincent - A Python to Vega translator.
- d3py - A plottling library for Python, based on D3.js.
- ggplot - Same API as ggplot2 for R.
- Kartograph.py - Rendering beautiful SVG maps in Python.
- pygal - A Python SVG Charts Creator.
Libraries for computer vision.
- OpenCV - Open Source Computer Vision Library.
- SimpleCV - An open source framework for building computer vision applications.
Libraries for Machine Learning. See: awesome-machine-learning
- scikit-learn - A Python module for machine learning built on top of SciPy.
- pattern - Web mining module for Python.
- NuPIC - Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing.
- Pylearn2 - A Machine Learning library based on Theano.
- hebel - GPU-Accelerated Deep Learning Library in Python.
- gensim - Topic Modelling for Humans.
- PyBrain - Another Python Machine Learning Library.
- Crab - A flexible, fast recommender engine.
- python-recsys - A Python library for implementing a Recommender System.
Framworks and libraries for MapReduce.
- PySpark - The Spark Python API.
- dpark - Python clone of Spark, a MapReduce alike framework in Python.
- luigi - A module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs.
- mrjob - Run MapReduce jobs on Hadoop or Amazon Web Services.
- dumbo - Python module that allows one to easily write and run Hadoop programs.
- streamparse - Run Python code against real-time streams of data. Integrates with Apache Storm.
- fn.py - Functional programming in Python: implementation of missing features to enjoy FP.
- funcy - A fancy and practical functional tools.
- Toolz - A collection of functional utilities for iterators, functions, and dictionaries.
- CyToolz - Cython implementation of Toolz: High performance functional utilities.
Libraries for accessing third party APIs. See: List of Python API Wrappers and Libraries
- apache-libcloud - One Python library for all clouds.
- boto - Python interface to Amazon Web Services.
- twython - A Python wrapper for the Twitter API.
- soundcloud-python - A Python wrapper around the Soundcloud API.
- google-api-python-client - Google APIs Client Library for Python.
- facebook-sdk - Facebook Platform Python SDK.
- facepy - Facepy makes it really easy to interact with Facebook's Graph API
- Wikipedia - A Pythonic wrapper for the Wikipedia API.
- python-instagram - A Python Client for Instagram API.
- gmail - A Pythonic interface for Gmail.
- praw - A Python wrapper for the Reddit API.
- linkedin - A Python interface for LinkedIn.
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.
- Plan - Writing crontab file in Python like a charm.
- cuisine - Chef-like functionality for Fabric.
- doit - A task runner/build tool.
- psutil - A cross-platform process and system utilities module.
- pexpect - A Python module for controlling interactive programs in a pseudo-terminal like GNU expect.
- provy - An easy-to-use provisioning system in Python.
Libraries for scheduling jobs.
- TaskFlow - A Python library that helps to make task execution easy, consistent and reliable.
- Joblib - A set of tools to provide lightweight pipelining in Python.
- Spiff - A powerful workflow engine implemented in pure Python.
- schedule - Python job scheduling for humans.
- django-schedule - A calendaring app for Django.
Libraries for providing foreign function interface.
- ctypes - (Python standard library) Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.
- cffi - Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.
- SWIG - Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator.
Libraries for making Python faster.
- Cython - Optimizing Static Complier for Python. Uses type mixins to compile Python into C or C++ modules resulting in large performance gains.
- PyPy - An implementation of Python in Python. The interpreter uses black magic to make Python very fast without having to add in additional type information.
- Stackless Python - An enhanced version of the Python.
- Pyston - A Python implementation built using LLVM and modern JIT techniques with the goal of achieving good performance.
Collections of algorithms and design patterns.
- python-patterns - A collection of design patterns in Python.
- algorithms - module of algorithms for Python.
Libraries for programming with hardware.
- wifi - A Python library and command line tool for working with WiFi on Linux.
Useful libraries or tools that don't fit in the categories above.
- IPython - IPython provides a rich toolkit to help you make the most out of using Python interactively.
- bpython – A fancy interface to the Python interpreter for Linux, BSD, OS X and Windows (with some work).
- pluginbase - A simple but flexible plugin system for Python.
- itsdangerous - Various helpers to pass trusted data to untrusted environments.
- blinker - A fast Python in-process signal/event dispatching system.
- pythonlibs - Unofficial Windows(32/64-bit) binaries for Python extension packages
Plugins for various editors.
- Vim
- Python-mode - An all in one plugin for turning Vim into a Python IDE.
- Jedi-vim - Vim bindings for the Jedi autocompletion library for Python.
- Emacs
- Elpy - Emacs Python Development Environment.
- Sublime Text
- SublimeJEDI - A Sublime Text plugin to the awesome autocomplete library Jedi.
- Anaconda - Anaconda turns your Sublime Text 3 in a full featured Python development IDE.
- Djaneiro - Django support for Sublime Text.
Where to discover new Python libraries.
- r/Python - News about Python.
- Python 3 Wall of Superpowers - Too many popular Python packages don't support Python 3.
- Trending Python repositories on GitHub today - Good place to find new Python libraries.
- Full Stack Python - Plain English explanations for every layer of the Python web application stack.
- Django Packages - A directory of reusable apps, sites, tools, and more for Django projects.
- Pycoder's Weekly - A free weekly newsletter, on Fridays, for those interested in Python development and various topics around Python.
- Python Weekly - A free weekly newsletter featuring curated news, articles, new releases, jobs etc related to Python.
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