Awesome Python

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Admin Panels

Libraries for administrative interfaces.

• - The admin panel your servers deserve.

• - A jazzy skin for the Django Admin-Interface.

• - Modern responsive template for the Django admin interface with improved functionality.

Algorithms and Design Patterns

Python implementation of algorithms and design patterns.

• - Minimal examples of data structures and algorithms in Python.

• - A simple yet effective library for implementing common design patterns.

• - A collection of design patterns in Python.

ASGI Servers

ASGI-compatible web servers.

• - Uvicorn is a lightning-fast ASGI server implementation, using uvloop and httptools.

Asynchronous Programming

• - (Python standard library) Asynchronous I/O, event loop, coroutines and tasks.

• - Ultra fast asyncio event loop.

Audio

Libraries for manipulating audio and its metadata.

• Audio

  • - Cross-library (GStreamer + Core Audio + MAD + FFmpeg) audio decoding.

  • - Audio fingerprinting and recognition.

Authentication

Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.

• OAuth

  • - JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption draft implementation.

  • - Authentication app for Django that "just works."

Build Tools

Compile software from source code.

• - A make-like build tool for embedded Linux.

• - A build system for creating, assembling and deploying applications from multiple parts.

• - A console tool to build code with different development platforms.

Built-in Classes Enhancement

Libraries for enhancing Python built-in classes.

• - (Python standard library) Data classes.

• - Replacement for __init__, __eq__, __repr__, etc. boilerplate in class definitions.

CMS

Content Management Systems.

• - A Django content management system.

• - An Open source enterprise CMS based on the Django.

• - One of the most advanced Content Management Systems built on Django.

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

• - A WSGI middleware for sessions and caching.

• - Automatic caching and invalidation for Django models.

• - A slick ORM cache with automatic granular event-driven invalidation.

ChatOps Tools

Libraries for chatbot development.

• - The easiest and most popular chatbot to implement ChatOps.

Code Analysis

Tools of static analysis, linters and code quality checkers. Also see .

• Code Analysis

  • - Language independent and easily extendable code analysis application.

  • - Turn your Python and JavaScript code into DOT flowcharts.

Command-line Interface Development

Libraries for building command-line applications.

• Command-line Application Development

  • - CLI Application Framework for Python.

  • - A package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way.

Command-line Tools

Useful CLI-based tools for productivity.

• Productivity Tools

  • - A command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates).

  • - A tool for live presentations in the terminal.

Compatibility

Libraries for migrating from Python 2 to 3.

• - The missing compatibility layer between Python 2 and Python 3.

• - Modernizes Python code for eventual Python 3 migration.

• - Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities.

Computer Vision

Libraries for computer vision.

• - Open Source Differentiable Computer Vision Library for PyTorch.

• - Open Source Computer Vision Library.

• - Another wrapper for .

Concurrency and Parallelism

Libraries for concurrent and parallel execution. Also see .

• - (Python standard library) A high-level interface for asynchronously executing callables.

• - (Python standard library) Process-based parallelism.

• - Asynchronous framework with WSGI support.

Configuration

Libraries for storing and parsing configuration options.

• - INI file parser with validation.

• - (Python standard library) INI file parser.

• - Config from multiple formats with value conversion.

Cryptography

• - A package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.

• - The leading native Python SSHv2 protocol library.

• - Secure password storage/hashing library, very high level.

Data Analysis

Libraries for data analyzing.

• - NumPy and Pandas interface to Big Data.

• - Business Intelligence (BI) in Pandas interface.

• - Data mining, data visualization, analysis and machine learning through visual programming or scripts.

Data Validation

Libraries for validating data. Used for forms in many cases.

• - A lightweight and extensible data validation library.

• - Validating and deserializing data obtained via XML, JSON, an HTML form post.

• - An implementation of for Python.

Data Visualization

Libraries for visualizing data. Also see .

• - Declarative statistical visualization library for Python.

• - Interactive Web Plotting for Python.

• - Interactive Plotting Library for the Jupyter Notebook

Database

Databases implemented in Python.

• - A simple and lightweight key-value store for Python.

• - A tiny, document-oriented database.

• - A native object database for Python. A key-value and object graph database.

Database Drivers

Libraries for connecting and operating databases.

• MySQL -

  • - MySQL connector with Python 3 support ( fork).

  • - A pure Python MySQL driver compatible to mysql-python.

Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

• - A Python 3 library for parsing human-written times and dates.

• - Extensions to the standard Python module.

• - A library for clearing up the inconvenient truths that arise dealing with datetimes.

Debugging Tools

Libraries for debugging code.

• pdb-like Debugger

  • - IPython-enabled .

  • - Another drop-in replacement for pdb.

Deep Learning

Frameworks for Neural Networks and Deep Learning. Also see .

• - A fast open framework for deep learning..

• - A high-level neural networks library and capable of running on top of either TensorFlow or Theano.

• - A deep learning framework designed for both efficiency and flexibility.

DevOps Tools

Software and libraries for DevOps.

• - A radically simple IT automation platform.

• - A multi-distribution package that handles early initialization of a cloud instance.

• - Chef-like functionality for Fabric.

Distributed Computing

Frameworks and libraries for Distributed Computing.

• Batch Processing

  • - Python API.

  • - A flexible parallel computing library for analytic computing.

Distribution

Libraries to create packaged executables for release distribution.

• - Build and distribute a virtualenv as a Debian package.

• - Compile scripts, modules, packages to an executable or extension module.

• - Freezes Python scripts (Mac OS X).

Documentation

Libraries for generating project documentation.

• - Python Documentation generator.

• - Epydoc replacement to auto generate API documentation for Python libraries.

Downloader

Libraries for downloading.

• - A command line tool for managing Amazon S3 and CloudFront.

• - Super S3 command line tool, good for higher performance.

• - A YouTube/Youku/Niconico video downloader written in Python 3.

E-commerce

Frameworks and libraries for e-commerce and payments.

• - Unofficial Alipay API for Python.

• - A shopping cart app built using the Mezzanine.

• - An open-source e-commerce framework for Django.

Editor Plugins and IDEs

• Emacs

  • - Emacs Python Development Environment.

• Sublime Text

Email

Libraries for sending and parsing email.

• - Mailing for human beings.

• - An email address and Mime parsing library.

• - Python IMAP for Humans.

Environment Management

Libraries for Python version and virtual environment management.

• - Simple Python version management.

• - A tool to create isolated Python environments.

Files

Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.

• - (Python standard library) Map filenames to MIME types.

• - A module wrapper for .

• - (Python standard library) An cross-platform, object-oriented path library.

Foreign Function Interface

Libraries for providing foreign function interface.

• - Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.

• - (Python standard library) Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.

• - A Python wrapper for Nvidia's CUDA API.

Forms

Libraries for working with forms.

• - Python HTML form generation library influenced by the formish form generation library.

• - Bootstrap 3 integration with Django.

• - Bootstrap 4 integration with Django.

Functional Programming

Functional Programming with Python.

• - Coconut is a variant of Python built for simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming.

• - Cython implementation of Toolz: High performance functional utilities.

• - Functional programming in Python: implementation of missing features to enjoy FP.

GUI Development

Libraries for working with graphical user interface applications.

• - Built-in wrapper for used to create terminal GUI applications.

• - A library for making simple Electron-like offline HTML/JS GUI apps.

• - Creating beautiful user-interfaces with Declarative Syntax like QML.

GraphQL

Libraries for working with GraphQL.

• - SDL-first GraphQL engine implementation for Python 3.6+ and asyncio.

• - An aiohttp-based wrapper for Tartiflette to expose GraphQL APIs over HTTP.

• - ASGI support for the Tartiflette GraphQL engine.

Game Development

Awesome game development libraries.

• - cocos2d is a framework for building 2D games, demos, and other graphical/interactive applications.

• - Python framework for 3D, VR and game development.

• - 3D game engine developed by Disney.

Geolocation

Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

• - A Django app that provides a country field for models and forms.

• - A world-class geographic web framework.

• - Python API for MaxMind GeoIP Legacy Database.

HTML Manipulation

Libraries for working with HTML and XML.

• - Providing Pythonic idioms for iterating, searching, and modifying HTML or XML.

• - A whitelist-based HTML sanitization and text linkification library.

• - A CSS library for Python.

HTTP Clients

Libraries for working with HTTP.

• - requests + gevent for asynchronous HTTP requests.

• - Comprehensive HTTP client library.

• - HTTP Requests for Humans.

Hardware

Libraries for programming with hardware.

• - Command line toolkit for working with .

• - Hook and simulate global keyboard events on Windows and Linux.

• - Hook and simulate global mouse events on Windows and Linux.

Image Processing

Libraries for manipulating images.

• - Image histogram remapping.

• - A project for searching a collection of images using visual similarity.

• - Nudity detection.

Implementations

Implementations of Python.

• - Default, most widely used implementation of the Python programming language written in C.

• - Optimizing Static Compiler for Python.

• - Implementation of the Python programming language written in Common Lisp.

Interactive Interpreter

Interactive Python interpreters (REPL).

• - A fancy interface to the Python interpreter.

• - A rich toolkit to help you make the most out of using Python interactively.

Internationalization

Libraries for working with i18n.

• - An internationalization library for Python.

• - A wrapper of International Components for Unicode C++ library ().

Job Scheduler

Libraries for scheduling jobs.

• - A light but powerful in-process task scheduler that lets you schedule functions.

• - A calendaring app for Django.

• - A task runner and build tool.

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with logs.

• - Logging for complex & distributed systems.

• - Logging replacement for Python.

• - (Python standard library) Logging facility for Python.

Machine Learning

Libraries for Machine Learning. Also see .

• - Open Source Fast Scalable Machine Learning Platform.

• - Machine learning evaluation metrics.

• - Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing.

Microsoft Windows

Python programming on Microsoft Windows.

• - Scientific-applications-oriented Python Distribution based on Qt and Spyder.

• - Unofficial Windows binaries for Python extension packages.

• - Python Integration with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR).

Miscellaneous

Useful libraries or tools that don't fit in the categories above.

• - A fast Python in-process signal/event dispatching system.

• - A set of pure-Python utilities.

• - Various helpers to pass trusted data to untrusted environments.

Natural Language Processing

Libraries for working with human languages.

• General

  • - Topic Modeling for Humans.

  • - Stand-alone language identification system.

Network Virtualization

Tools and libraries for Virtual Networking and SDN (Software Defined Networking).

• - A popular network emulator and API written in Python.

• - Cross-vendor API to manipulate network devices.

• - A Python-based SDN control applications, such as OpenFlow SDN controllers.

News Feed

Libraries for building user's activities.

• - Generating generic activity streams from the actions on your site.

• - Building news feed and notification systems using Cassandra and Redis.

ORM

Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or data mapping techniques.

• Relational Databases

  • - The Django ORM.

  • - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper.

Package Management

Libraries for package and dependency management.

• - The package installer for Python.

  • - A set of tools to keep your pinned Python dependencies fresh.

Package Repositories

Local PyPI repository server and proxies.

• - Next generation Python Package Repository (PyPI).

• - PyPI mirroring tool provided by Python Packaging Authority (PyPA).

• - PyPI server and packaging/testing/release tool.

Permissions

Libraries that allow or deny users access to data or functionality.

• - Implementation of per object permissions for Django 1.2+

• - A tiny but powerful app providing object-level permissions to Django, without requiring a database.

Processes

Libraries for starting and communicating with OS processes.

• - for Humans 2.0.

• - Yet another wrapper for subprocess.

• - A full-fledged subprocess replacement for Python.

Recommender Systems

Libraries for building recommender systems.

• - Approximate Nearest Neighbors in C++/Python optimized for memory usage.

• - A library for Factorization Machines.

• - A fast Python implementation of collaborative filtering for implicit datasets.

Refactoring

Refactoring tools and libraries for Python

• - Bicycle Repair Man, a refactoring tool for Python.

• - Safe code refactoring for modern Python.

• - Rope is a python refactoring library.

RESTful API

Libraries for building RESTful APIs.

• Django

  • - A powerful and flexible toolkit to build web APIs.

  • - Creating delicious APIs for Django apps.

Robotics

Libraries for robotics.

• - This is a compilation of various robotics algorithms with visualizations.

• - This is a library for ROS (Robot Operating System).

RPC Servers

RPC-compatible servers.

• - zerorpc is a flexible RPC implementation based on and .

Science

Libraries for scientific computing. Also see

• - A community Python library for Astronomy.

• - Providing best-practice pipelines for fully automated high throughput sequencing analysis.

• - Collection of useful code related to biological analysis.

Search

Libraries and software for indexing and performing search queries on data.

• - The official low-level Python client for .

• - The official high-level Python client for Elasticsearch.

• - Modular search for Django.

Serialization

Libraries for serializing complex data types

• - A lightweight library for converting complex objects to and from simple Python datatypes.

• - A Python bindings for .

• - A Python wrapper around .

Serverless Frameworks

Frameworks for developing serverless Python code.

• - A toolkit for developing and deploying Python code in AWS Lambda.

• - A tool for deploying WSGI applications on AWS Lambda and API Gateway.

Specific Formats Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating specific text formats.

• General

  • - A module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML.

• Office

Static Site Generator

Static site generator is a software that takes some text + templates as input and produces HTML files on the output.

• - Markdown friendly documentation generator.

• - Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax.

• - An easy to use static CMS and blog engine.

Tagging

Libraries for tagging items.

• - Simple tagging for Django.

Task Queues

Libraries for working with task queues.

• - An asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.

• - Little multi-threaded task queue.

• - A distributed worker task queue in Python using Redis & gevent.

Template Engine

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.

• - A modern and designer friendly templating language.

• - Python templating toolkit for generation of web-aware output.

• - Hyperfast and lightweight templating for the Python platform.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• Testing Frameworks

  • - A mature full-featured Python testing tool.

  • - Hypothesis is an advanced Quickcheck style property based testing library.

Text Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating plain texts.

• General

  • - Python 2/3 compatible character encoding detector.

  • - (Python standard library) Helpers for computing deltas.

Third-party APIs

Libraries for accessing third party services APIs. Also see .

• - One Python library for all clouds.

• - Python interface to Amazon Web Services.

• - WordPress models and views for Django.

URL Manipulation

Libraries for parsing URLs.

• - A small Python library that makes parsing and manipulating URLs easy.

• - A simple, immutable URL class with a clean API for interrogation and manipulation.

• - A pure Python URL shortening lib.

Video

Libraries for manipulating video and GIFs.

• - A module for script-based movie editing with many formats, including animated GIFs.

• - Video processing routines for SciPy.

Web Asset Management

Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.

• - Compresses linked and inline JavaScript or CSS into a single cached file.

• - An asset packaging library for Django.

• - A collection of custom storage back ends for Django.

Web Content Extracting

Libraries for extracting web contents.

• - Convert HTML to Markdown-formatted text.

• - Web Content Retrieval for Humans.

• - A small library for extracting rich content from URLs.

Web Crawling

Libraries to automate web scraping.

• - A distributed crawling framework.

• - Universal feed parser.

• - Site scraping framework.

Web Frameworks

Traditional full stack web frameworks. Also see

• Synchronous

  • - The most popular web framework in Python.

WebSocket

Libraries for working with WebSocket.

• - WebSocket & WAMP for Python on Twisted and .

• - Developer-friendly asynchrony for Django.

• - A library for building WebSocket servers and clients with a focus on correctness and simplicity.

WSGI Servers

WSGI-compatible web servers.

• - Asynchronous, very fast and written in C.

• - Pre-forked, partly written in C.

• - A project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services, written in C.

Resources

Where to discover new Python libraries.

Podcasts

Twitter

Websites

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