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
- 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
- Downloader
- Forms
- Data Validation
- Anti-spam
- Tagging
- Admin Panels
- Processes and Threads
- Networking
- WebSocket
- WSGI Servers
- Cryptography
- GUI
- Game Development
- Logging
- Testing
- Code Analysis and Linter
- Debugging Tools
- Science and Data Analysis
- Data Visualization
- Machine Learning
- Functional Programming
- MapReduce
- Third-party APIs
- DevOps Tools
- Workflow Execution
- 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 8000 - Python Env Wrapper (also called Invewrapper) is 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)
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.
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
- 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 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.
- 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.
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.
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.
- 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.
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.