A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources.

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Admin Panels

Libraries for administrative interfaces.

• ajenti – The admin panel your servers deserve.
• django-grappelli – A jazzy skin for the Django Admin-Interface.
• django-jet – Modern responsive template for the Django admin interface with improved functionality.
• 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.
• wooey – A Django app which creates automatic web UIs for Python scripts.

Algorithms and Design Patterns

Python implementation of algorithms and design patterns.

• algorithms – Minimal examples of data structures and algorithms in Python.
• PyPattyrn – A simple yet effective library for implementing common design patterns.
• python-patterns – A collection of design patterns in Python.
• sortedcontainers – Fast, pure-Python implementation of SortedList, SortedDict, and SortedSet types.

Audio

Libraries for manipulating audio and its metadata.

• Audio
  • audioread – Cross-library (GStreamer + Core Audio + MAD + FFmpeg) audio decoding.
  • dejavu – Audio fingerprinting and recognition.
  • mingus – An advanced music theory and notation package with MIDI file and playback support.
  • pyAudioAnalysis – Audio feature extraction, classification, segmentation and applications.
  • pydub – Manipulate audio with a simple and easy high level interface.
  • TimeSide – Open web audio processing framework.
• Metadata
  • beets – A music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger.
  • eyeD3 – A tool for working with audio files, specifically MP3 files containing ID3 metadata.
  • mutagen – A Python module to handle audio metadata.
  • tinytag – A library for reading music meta data of MP3, OGG, FLAC and Wave files.

Authentication

Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.

• OAuth
  • authlib – JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption draft implementation.
  • django-allauth – Authentication app for Django that “just works.”
  • django-oauth-toolkit – OAuth 2 goodies for Django.
  • oauthlib – A generic and thorough implementation of the OAuth request-signing logic.
  • python-oauth2 – A fully tested, abstract interface to creating OAuth clients and servers.
  • python-social-auth – An easy-to-setup social authentication mechanism.
• JWT
  • pyjwt – JSON Web Token implementation in Python.
  • python-jose – A JOSE implementation in Python.
  • python-jwt – A module for generating and verifying JSON Web Tokens.

Build Tools

Compile software from source code.

• BitBake – A make-like build tool for embedded Linux.
• buildout – A build system for creating, assembling and deploying applications from multiple parts.
• PlatformIO – A console tool to build code with different development platforms.
• pybuilder – A continuous build tool written in pure Python.
• SCons – A software construction tool.

Built-in Classes Enhancement

Libraries for enhancing Python built-in classes.

• dataclasses – (Python standard library) Data classes.
• attrs – Replacement for __init__, __eq__, __repr__, etc. boilerplate in class definitions.
• bidict – Efficient, Pythonic bidirectional map data structures and related functionality..
• Box – Python dictionaries with advanced dot notation access.
• DottedDict – A library that provides a method of accessing lists and dicts with a dotted path notation.

CMS

Content Management Systems.

• wagtail – A Django content management system.
• django-cms – An Open source enterprise CMS based on the Django.
• feincms – One of the most advanced Content Management Systems built on Django.
• Kotti – A high-level, Pythonic web application framework built on Pyramid.
• mezzanine – A powerful, consistent, and flexible content management platform.
• plone – A CMS built on top of the open source application server Zope.
• quokka – Flexible, extensible, small CMS powered by Flask and MongoDB.

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

• beaker – A WSGI middleware for sessions and caching.
• django-cache-machine – Automatic caching and invalidation for Django models.
• django-cacheops – A slick ORM cache with automatic granular event-driven invalidation.
• 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.
• pylibmc – A Python wrapper around the libmemcached interface.
• python-diskcache – SQLite and file backed cache backend with faster lookups than memcached and redis.

ChatOps Tools

Libraries for chatbot development.

• errbot – The easiest and most popular chatbot to implement ChatOps.

Code Analysis

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

• Code Analysis
  • coala – Language independent and easily extendable code analysis application.
  • code2flow – Turn your Python and JavaScript code into DOT flowcharts.
  • prospector – A tool to analyse Python code.
  • pycallgraph – A library that visualises the flow (call graph) of your Python application.
• Code Linters
  • flake8 – A wrapper around pycodestyle, pyflakes and McCabe.
  • pylint – A fully customizable source code analyzer.
  • pylama – A code audit tool for Python and JavaScript.
• Code Formatters
  • black – The uncompromising Python code formatter.
  • yapf – Yet another Python code formatter from Google.
• Static Type Checkers
  • mypy – Check variable types during compile time.
  • pyre-check – Performant type checking.
• Static Type Annotations Generators
  • MonkeyType – A system for Python that generates static type annotations by collecting runtime types

Command-line Interface Development

Libraries for building command-line applications.

• Command-line Application Development
  • cement – CLI Application Framework for Python.
  • click – A package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way.
  • cliff – A framework for creating command-line programs with multi-level commands.
  • clint – Python Command-line Application Tools.
  • docopt – Pythonic command line arguments parser.
  • python-fire – A library for creating command line interfaces from absolutely any Python object.
  • python-prompt-toolkit – A library for building powerful interactive command lines.
• Terminal Rendering
  • asciimatics – A package to create full-screen text UIs (from interactive forms to ASCII animations).
  • bashplotlib – Making basic plots in the terminal.
  • colorama – Cross-platform colored terminal text.
  • tqdm – Fast, extensible progress bar for loops and CLI.

Command-line Tools

Useful CLI-based tools for productivity.

• Productivity Tools
  • cookiecutter – A command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates).
  • doitlive – A tool for live presentations in the terminal.
  • howdoi – Instant coding answers via the command line.
  • PathPicker – Select files out of bash output.
  • percol – Adds flavor of interactive selection to the traditional pipe concept on UNIX.
  • thefuck – Correcting your previous console command.
  • tmuxp – A tmux session manager.
  • try – A dead simple CLI to try out python packages – it’s never been easier.
• CLI Enhancements
  • httpie – A command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement.
  • kube-shell – An integrated shell for working with the Kubernetes CLI.
  • mycli – A Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.
  • pgcli – Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
  • saws – A Supercharged aws-cli.

Compatibility

Libraries for migrating from Python 2 to 3.

• python-future – The missing compatibility layer between Python 2 and Python 3.
• python-modernize – Modernizes Python code for eventual Python 3 migration.
• six – Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities.

Computer Vision

Libraries for computer vision.

• OpenCV – Open Source Computer Vision Library.
• pytesseract – Another wrapper for Google Tesseract OCR.
• SimpleCV – An open source framework for building computer vision applications.

Concurrency and Parallelism

Libraries for concurrent and parallel execution. Also see awesome-asyncio.

• concurrent.futures – (Python standard library) A high-level interface for asynchronously executing callables.
• multiprocessing – (Python standard library) Process-based parallelism.
• eventlet – Asynchronous framework with WSGI support.
• gevent – A coroutine-based Python networking library that uses greenlet.
• uvloop – Ultra fast implementation of asyncio event loop on top of libuv.
• scoop – Scalable Concurrent Operations in Python.

Configuration

Libraries for storing and parsing configuration options.

• configobj – INI file parser with validation.
• configparser – (Python standard library) INI file parser.
• profig – Config from multiple formats with value conversion.
• python-decouple – Strict separation of settings from code.

Cryptography

• cryptography – A package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.
• paramiko – The leading native Python SSHv2 protocol library.
• passlib – Secure password storage/hashing library, very high level.
• pynacl – Python binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library.

Data Analysis

Libraries for data analyzing.

• Blaze – NumPy and Pandas interface to Big Data.
• Open Mining – Business Intelligence (BI) in Pandas interface.
• Orange – Data mining, data visualization, analysis and machine learning through visual programming or scripts.
• Pandas – A library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools.
• Optimus – Agile Data Science Workflows made easy with PySpark.

Data Validation

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

• Cerberus – A lightweight and extensible data validation library.
• colander – Validating and deserializing data obtained via XML, JSON, an HTML form post.
• jsonschema – An implementation of JSON Schema for Python.
• schema – A library for validating Python data structures.
• Schematics – Data Structure Validation.
• valideer – Lightweight extensible data validation and adaptation library.
• voluptuous – A Python data validation library.

Data Visualization

Libraries for visualizing data. Also see awesome-javascript.

• Altair – Declarative statistical visualization library for Python.
• Bokeh – Interactive Web Plotting for Python.
• bqplot – Interactive Plotting Library for the Jupyter Notebook
• Dash – Built on top of Flask, React and Plotly aimed at analytical web applications.
  • awesome-dash
• ggplot – Same API as ggplot2 for R.
• Matplotlib – A Python 2D plotting library.
• Pygal – A Python SVG Charts Creator.
• PyGraphviz – Python interface to Graphviz.
• PyQtGraph – Interactive and realtime 2D/3D/Image plotting and science/engineering widgets.
• Seaborn – Statistical data visualization using Matplotlib.
• VisPy – High-performance scientific visualization based on OpenGL.

Database

Databases implemented in Python.

• pickleDB – A simple and lightweight key-value store for Python.
• tinydb – A tiny, document-oriented database.
• ZODB – A native object database for Python. A key-value and object graph database.

Database Drivers

Libraries for connecting and operating databases.

• MySQL – awesome-mysql
  • mysqlclient – MySQL connector with Python 3 support (mysql-python fork).
  • PyMySQL – A pure Python MySQL driver compatible to mysql-python.
• PostgreSQL – awesome-postgres
  • psycopg2 – The most popular PostgreSQL adapter for Python.
  • queries – A wrapper of the psycopg2 library for interacting with PostgreSQL.
• Other Relational Databases
  • pymssql – A simple database interface to Microsoft SQL Server.
• NoSQL Databases
  • cassandra-driver – The Python Driver for Apache Cassandra.
  • happybase – A developer-friendly library for Apache HBase.
  • kafka-python – The Python client for Apache Kafka.
  • py2neo – Python wrapper client for Neo4j’s restful interface.
  • pymongo – The official Python client for MongoDB.
  • redis-py – The Python client for Redis.
• Asynchronous Clients
  • motor – The async Python driver for MongoDB.
  • Telephus – Twisted based client for Cassandra.
  • txpostgres – Twisted based asynchronous driver for PostgreSQL.
  • txRedis – Twisted based client for Redis.

Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

• Chronyk – A Python 3 library for parsing human-written times and dates.
• dateutil – Extensions to the standard Python datetime module.
• delorean – A library for clearing up the inconvenient truths that arise dealing with datetimes.
• moment – A Python library for dealing with dates/times. Inspired by Moment.js.
• Pendulum – Python datetimes made easy.
• PyTime – A easy-use Python module which aims to operate date/time/datetime by string.
• pytz – World timezone definitions, modern and historical. Brings the tz database into Python.
• when.py – Providing user-friendly functions to help perform common date and time actions.
• maya – Datetimes for Humans.

Debugging Tools

Libraries for debugging code.

• pdb-like Debugger
  • ipdb – IPython-enabled pdb.
  • pdb++ – Another drop-in replacement for pdb.
  • pudb – A full-screen, console-based Python debugger.
  • wdb – An improbable web debugger through WebSockets.
• Tracing
  • lptrace – strace for Python programs.
  • manhole – Debugging UNIX socket connections and present the stacktraces for all threads and an interactive prompt.
  • pyringe – Debugger capable of attaching to and injecting code into Python processes.
  • python-hunter – A flexible code tracing toolkit.
• Profiler
  • line_profiler – Line-by-line profiling.
  • memory_profiler – Monitor Memory usage of Python code.
  • profiling – An interactive Python profiler.
  • py-spy – A sampling profiler for Python programs. Written in Rust.
  • pyflame – A ptracing profiler For Python.
  • vprof – Visual Python profiler.
• Others
  • icecream – Inspect variables, expressions, and program execution with a single, simple function call.
  • django-debug-toolbar – Display various debug information for Django.
  • django-devserver – A drop-in replacement for Django’s runserver.
  • flask-debugtoolbar – A port of the django-debug-toolbar to flask.
  • pyelftools – Parsing and analyzing ELF files and DWARF debugging information.

Deep Learning

Frameworks for Neural Networks and Deep Learning. Also see awesome-deep-learning.

• caffe – A fast open framework for deep learning..
• keras – A high-level neural networks library and capable of running on top of either TensorFlow or Theano.
• mxnet – A deep learning framework designed for both efficiency and flexibility.
• pytorch – Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration.
• SerpentAI – Game agent framework. Use any video game as a deep learning sandbox.
• tensorflow – The most popular Deep Learning framework created by Google.
• Theano – A library for fast numerical computation.

DevOps Tools

Software and libraries for DevOps.

• ansible – A radically simple IT automation platform.
• cloudinit – A multi-distribution package that handles early initialization of a cloud instance.
• cuisine – Chef-like functionality for Fabric.
• docker-compose – Fast, isolated development environments using Docker.
• fabric – A simple, Pythonic tool for remote execution and deployment.
• fabtools – Tools for writing awesome Fabric files.
• honcho – A Python clone of Foreman, for managing Procfile-based applications.
• OpenStack – Open source software for building private and public clouds.
• pexpect – Controlling interactive programs in a pseudo-terminal like GNU expect.
• psutil – A cross-platform process and system utilities module.
• saltstack – Infrastructure automation and management system.
• supervisor – Supervisor process control system for UNIX.

Distributed Computing

Frameworks and libraries for Distributed Computing.

• Batch Processing
  • PySpark – Apache Spark Python API.
  • dask – A flexible parallel computing library for analytic computing.
  • luigi – A module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs.
  • mrjob – Run MapReduce jobs on Hadoop or Amazon Web Services.
  • Ray – A system for parallel and distributed Python that unifies the machine learning ecosystem.
• Stream Processing
  • faust – A stream processing library, porting the ideas from Kafka Streams to Python.
  • streamparse – Run Python code against real-time streams of data via Apache Storm.

Distribution

Libraries to create packaged executables for release distribution.

• dh-virtualenv – Build and distribute a virtualenv as a Debian package.
• Nuitka – Compile scripts, modules, packages to an executable or extension module.
• py2app – Freezes Python scripts (Mac OS X).
• py2exe – Freezes Python scripts (Windows).
• PyInstaller – Converts Python programs into stand-alone executables (cross-platform).
• pynsist – A tool to build Windows installers, installers bundle Python itself.

Documentation

Libraries for generating project documentation.

• sphinx – Python Documentation generator.
  • awesome-sphinxdoc
• pdoc – Epydoc replacement to auto generate API documentation for Python libraries.
• pycco – The literate-programming-style documentation generator.

Downloader

Libraries for downloading.

• s3cmd – A command line tool for managing Amazon S3 and CloudFront.
• s4cmd – Super S3 command line tool, good for higher performance.
• you-get – A YouTube/Youku/Niconico video downloader written in Python 3.
• youtube-dl – A small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.

E-commerce

Frameworks and libraries for e-commerce and payments.

• alipay – Unofficial Alipay API for Python.
• Cartridge – A shopping cart app built using the Mezzanine.
• django-oscar – An open-source e-commerce framework for Django.
• django-shop – A Django based shop system.
• merchant – A Django app to accept payments from various payment processors.
• money – Money class with optional CLDR-backed locale-aware formatting and an extensible currency exchange.
• python-currencies – Display money format and its filthy currencies.
• forex-python – Foreign exchange rates, Bitcoin price index and currency conversion.
• saleor – An e-commerce storefront for Django.
• shoop – An open source E-Commerce platform based on Django.

Editor Plugins and IDEs

• Emacs
  • elpy – Emacs Python Development Environment.
• Sublime Text
  • anaconda – Anaconda turns your Sublime Text 3 in a full featured Python development IDE.
  • SublimeJEDI – A Sublime Text plugin to the awesome auto-complete library Jedi.
• Vim
  • jedi-vim – Vim bindings for the Jedi auto-completion library for Python.
  • python-mode – An all in one plugin for turning Vim into a Python IDE.
  • YouCompleteMe – Includes Jedi-based completion engine for Python.
• Visual Studio
  • PTVS – Python Tools for Visual Studio.
• Visual Studio Code
  • Python – The official VSCode extension with rich support for Python.
• IDE
  • PyCharm – Commercial Python IDE by JetBrains. Has free community edition available.
  • spyder – Open Source Python IDE.

Email

Libraries for sending and parsing email.

• envelopes – Mailing for human beings.
• flanker – A email address and Mime parsing library.
• imbox – Python IMAP for Humans.
• inbox.py – Python SMTP Server for Humans.
• lamson – Pythonic SMTP Application Server.
• Marrow Mailer – High-performance extensible mail delivery framework.
• modoboa – A mail hosting and management platform including a modern and simplified Web UI.
• Nylas Sync Engine – Providing a RESTful API on top of a powerful email sync platform.
• yagmail – Yet another Gmail/SMTP client.

Environment Management

Libraries for Python version and virtual environment management.

• pyenv – Simple Python version management.
• pipenv – Python Development Workflow for Humans.
• poetry – Python dependency management and packaging made easy.
• virtualenv – A tool to create isolated Python environments.

Files

Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.

• mimetypes – (Python standard library) Map filenames to MIME types.
• path.py – A module wrapper for os.path.
• pathlib – (Python standard library) An cross-platform, object-oriented path library.
• PyFilesystem2 – Python’s filesystem abstraction layer.
• python-magic – A Python interface to the libmagic file type identification library.
• Unipath – An object-oriented approach to file/directory operations.
• watchdog – API and shell utilities to monitor file system events.

Foreign Function Interface

Libraries for providing foreign function interface.

• cffi – Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.
• ctypes – (Python standard library) Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.
• PyCUDA – A Python wrapper for Nvidia’s CUDA API.
• SWIG – Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator.

Forms

Libraries for working with forms.

• Deform – Python HTML form generation library influenced by the formish form generation library.
• django-bootstrap3 – Bootstrap 3 integration with Django.
• django-bootstrap4 – Bootstrap 4 integration with Django.
• 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.
• WTForms – A flexible forms validation and rendering library.

Functional Programming

Functional Programming with Python.

• Coconut – Coconut is a variant of Python built for simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming.
• CyToolz – Cython implementation of Toolz: High performance functional utilities.
• 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.

GUI Development

Libraries for working with graphical user interface applications.

• curses – Built-in wrapper for ncurses used to create terminal GUI applications.
• Eel – A library for making simple Electron-like offline HTML/JS GUI apps.
• enaml – Creating beautiful user-interfaces with Declaratic Syntax like QML.
• Flexx – Flexx is a pure Python toolkit for creating GUI’s, that uses web technology for its rendering.
• Gooey – Turn command line programs into a full GUI application with one line.
• kivy – A library for creating NUI applications, running on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android and iOS.
• pyglet – A cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python.
• PyGObject – Python Bindings for GLib/GObject/GIO/GTK+ (GTK+3).
• PyQt – Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework.
• PySimpleGUI – Wrapper for tkinter, Qt, WxPython and Remi.
• pywebview – A lightweight cross-platform native wrapper around a webview component.
• Tkinter – Tkinter is Python’s de-facto standard GUI package.
• Toga – A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit.
• urwid – A library for creating terminal GUI applications with strong support for widgets, events, rich colors, etc.
• wxPython – A blending of the wxWidgets C++ class library with the Python.

Game Development

Awesome game development libraries.

• Cocos2d – cocos2d is a framework for building 2D games, demos, and other graphical/interactive applications.
• Harfang3D – Python framework for 3D, VR and game development.
• Panda3D – 3D game engine developed by Disney.
• Pygame – Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing games.
• 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.
• PySDL2 – A ctypes based wrapper for the SDL2 library.
• RenPy – A Visual Novel engine.

Geolocation

Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

• django-countries – A Django app that provides a country field for models and forms.
• GeoDjango – A world-class geographic web framework.
• GeoIP – Python API for MaxMind GeoIP Legacy Database.
• geojson – Python bindings and utilities for GeoJSON.
• geopy – Python Geocoding Toolbox.
• pygeoip – Pure Python GeoIP API.

HTML Manipulation

Libraries for working with HTML and XML.

• BeautifulSoup – Providing Pythonic idioms for iterating, searching, and modifying HTML or XML.
• bleach – A whitelist-based HTML sanitization and text linkification library.
• cssutils – A CSS library for Python.
• html5lib – A standards-compliant library for parsing and serializing HTML documents and fragments.
• lxml – A very fast, easy-to-use and versatile library for handling HTML and XML.
• MarkupSafe – Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python.
• pyquery – A jQuery-like library for parsing HTML.
• untangle – Converts XML documents to Python objects for easy access.
• WeasyPrint – A visual rendering engine for HTML and CSS that can export to PDF.
• xmldataset – Simple XML Parsing.
• xmltodict – Working with XML feel like you are working with JSON.

HTTP Clients

Libraries for working with HTTP.

• grequests – requests + gevent for asynchronous HTTP requests.
• httplib2 – Comprehensive HTTP client library.
• requests – HTTP Requests for Humans™.
• treq – Python requests like API built on top of Twisted’s HTTP client.
• urllib3 – A HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post support, sanity friendly.

Hardware

Libraries for programming with hardware.

• ino – Command line toolkit for working with Arduino.
• keyboard – Hook and simulate global keyboard events on Windows and Linux.
• mouse – Hook and simulate global mouse events on Windows and Linux.
• Pingo – Pingo provides a uniform API to program devices like the Raspberry Pi, pcDuino, Intel Galileo, etc.
• PyUserInput – A module for cross-platform control of the mouse and keyboard.
• scapy – A brilliant packet manipulation library.
• wifi – A Python library and command line tool for working with WiFi on Linux.

Image Processing

Libraries for manipulating images.

• hmap – Image histogram remapping.
• imgSeek – A project for searching a collection of images using visual similarity.
• nude.py – Nudity detection.
• pagan – Retro identicon (Avatar) generation based on input string and hash.
• pillow – Pillow is the friendly PIL fork.
• pyBarcode – Create barcodes in Python without needing PIL.
• pygram – Instagram-like image filters.
• python-qrcode – A pure Python QR Code generator.
• Quads – Computer art based on quadtrees.
• scikit-image – A Python library for (scientific) image processing.
• thumbor – A smart imaging service. It enables on-demand crop, re-sizing and flipping of images.
• wand – Python bindings for MagickWand, C API for ImageMagick.

Implementations

Implementations of Python.

• CPython – Default, most widely used implementation of the Python programming language written in C.
• Cython – Optimizing Static Compiler for Python.
• CLPython – Implementation of the Python programming language written in Common Lisp.
• Grumpy – More compiler than interpreter as more powerful CPython2.7 replacement (alpha).
• IronPython – Implementation of the Python programming language written in C#.
• Jython – Implementation of Python programming language written in Java for the JVM.
• MicroPython – A lean and efficient Python programming language implementation.
• Numba – Python JIT compiler to LLVM aimed at scientific Python.
• PeachPy – x86-64 assembler embedded in Python.
• Pyjion – A JIT for Python based upon CoreCLR.
• PyPy – A very fast and compliant implementation of the Python language.
• Pyston – A Python implementation using JIT techniques.
• Stackless Python – An enhanced version of the Python programming language.

Interactive Interpreter

Interactive Python interpreters (REPL).

• bpython – A fancy interface to the Python interpreter.
• Jupyter Notebook (IPython) – A rich toolkit to help you make the most out of using Python interactively.
  • awesome-jupyter
• ptpython – Advanced Python REPL built on top of the python-prompt-toolkit.

Internationalization

Libraries for working with i18n.

• Babel – An internationalization library for Python.
• PyICU – A wrapper of International Components for Unicode C++ library (ICU).

Job Scheduler

Libraries for scheduling jobs.

• APScheduler – A light but powerful in-process task scheduler that lets you schedule functions.
• django-schedule – A calendaring app for Django.
• doit – A task runner and build tool.
• gunnery – Multipurpose task execution tool for distributed systems with web-based interface.
• Joblib – A set of tools to provide lightweight pipelining in Python.
• Plan – Writing crontab file in Python like a charm.
• schedule – Python job scheduling for humans.
• Spiff – A powerful workflow engine implemented in pure Python.
• TaskFlow – A Python library that helps to make task execution easy, consistent and reliable.
• Airflow – Airflow is a platform to programmatically author, schedule and monitor workflows.

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with logs.

• Eliot – Logging for complex & distributed systems.
• logbook – Logging replacement for Python.
• logging – (Python standard library) Logging facility for Python.
• raven – Python client for Sentry, a log/error tracking, crash reporting and aggregation platform for web applications.

Machine Learning

Libraries for Machine Learning. Also see awesome-machine-learning.

• H2O – Open Source Fast Scalable Machine Learning Platform.
• Metrics – Machine learning evaluation metrics.
• NuPIC – Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing.
• scikit-learn – The most popular Python library for Machine Learning.
• Spark ML – Apache Spark‘s scalable Machine Learning library.
• vowpal_porpoise – A lightweight Python wrapper for Vowpal Wabbit.
• xgboost – A scalable, portable, and distributed gradient boosting library.

Microsoft Windows

Python programming on Microsoft Windows.

• Python(x,y) – Scientific-applications-oriented Python Distribution based on Qt and Spyder.
• pythonlibs – Unofficial Windows binaries for Python extension packages.
• PythonNet – Python Integration with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR).
• PyWin32 – Python Extensions for Windows.
• WinPython – Portable development environment for Windows 7/8.

Miscellaneous

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

• blinker – A fast Python in-process signal/event dispatching system.
• boltons – A set of pure-Python utilities.
• itsdangerous – Various helpers to pass trusted data to untrusted environments.
• pluginbase – A simple but flexible plugin system for Python.
• tryton – A general purpose business framework.

Natural Language Processing

Libraries for working with human languages.

• General
  • gensim – Topic Modelling for Humans.
  • langid.py – Stand-alone language identification system.
  • nltk – A leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data.
  • pattern – A web mining module for the Python.
  • polyglot – Natural language pipeline supporting hundreds of languages.
  • pytext – A natural language modeling framework based on PyTorch.
  • PyTorch-NLP – A toolkit enabling rapid deep learning NLP prototyping for research.
  • spacy – A library for industrial-strength natural language processing in Python and Cython.
  • stanfordnlp – The Stanford NLP Group’s official Python library, supporting 50+ languages.
• Chinese
  • jieba – The most popular Chinese text segmentation library.
  • pkuseg-python – A toolkit for Chinese word segmentation in various domains.
  • snownlp – A library for processing Chinese text.
  • funNLP – A collection of tools and datasets for Chinese NLP.

Network Virtualization

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

• mininet – A popular network emulator and API written in Python.
• pox – A Python-based SDN control applications, such as OpenFlow SDN controllers.

Networking

Libraries for networking programming.

• asyncio – (Python standard library) Asynchronous I/O, event loop, coroutines and tasks.
  • awesome-asyncio
• pulsar – Event-driven concurrent framework for Python.
• pyzmq – A Python wrapper for the ZeroMQ message library.
• Twisted – An event-driven networking engine.
• napalm – Cross-vendor API to manipulate network devices.

News Feed

Libraries for building user’s activities.

• django-activity-stream – Generating generic activity streams from the actions on your site.
• Stream Framework – Building newsfeed and notification systems using Cassandra and Redis.

ORM

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

• Relational Databases
  • Django Models – A part of Django.
  • SQLAlchemy – The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper.
    • awesome-sqlalchemy
  • dataset – Store Python dicts in a database – works with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
  • orator – The Orator ORM provides a simple yet beautiful ActiveRecord implementation.
  • peewee – A small, expressive ORM.
  • pony – ORM that provides a generator-oriented interface to SQL.
  • pydal – A pure Python Database Abstraction Layer.
• NoSQL Databases
  • hot-redis – Rich Python data types for Redis.
  • mongoengine – A Python Object-Document-Mapper for working with MongoDB.
  • PynamoDB – A Pythonic interface for Amazon DynamoDB.
  • redisco – A Python Library for Simple Models and Containers Persisted in Redis.

Package Management

Libraries for package and dependency management.

• pip – The Python package and dependency manager.
  • PyPI
  • pip-tools – A set of tools to keep your pinned Python dependencies fresh.
• conda – Cross-platform, Python-agnostic binary package manager.

Package Repositories

Local PyPI repository server and proxies.

• warehouse – Next generation Python Package Repository (PyPI).
• bandersnatch – PyPI mirroring tool provided by Python Packaging Authority (PyPA).
• devpi – PyPI server and packaging/testing/release tool.
• localshop – Local PyPI server (custom packages and auto-mirroring of pypi).

Permissions

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

• django-guardian – Implementation of per object permissions for Django 1.2+
• django-rules – A tiny but powerful app providing object-level permissions to Django, without requiring a database.

Processes

Libraries for starting and communicating with OS processes.

• delegator.py – Subprocesses for Humans™ 2.0.
• sarge – Yet another wrapper for subprocess.
• sh – A full-fledged subprocess replacement for Python.

Queue

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.

Recommender Systems

Libraries for building recommender systems.

• annoy – Approximate Nearest Neighbors in C++/Python optimized for memory usage.
• fastFM – A library for Factorization Machines.
• implicit – A fast Python implementation of collaborative filtering for implicit datasets.
• libffm – A library for Field-aware Factorization Machine (FFM).
• lightfm – A Python implementation of a number of popular recommendation algorithms.
• spotlight – Deep recommender models using PyTorch.
• Surprise – A scikit for building and analyzing recommender systems.
• tensorrec – A Recommendation Engine Framework in TensorFlow.

RESTful API

Libraries for developing RESTful APIs.

• Django
  • django-rest-framework – A powerful and flexible toolkit to build web APIs.
  • django-tastypie – Creating delicious APIs for Django apps.
• Flask
  • eve – REST API framework powered by Flask, MongoDB and good intentions.
  • flask-api-utils – Taking care of API representation and authentication for Flask.
  • flask-api – Browsable Web APIs for Flask.
  • flask-restful – Quickly building REST APIs for Flask.
  • flask-restless – Generating RESTful APIs for database models defined with SQLAlchemy.
• Pyramid
  • cornice – A RESTful framework for Pyramid.
• Framework agnostic
  • apistar – A smart Web API framework, designed for Python 3.
  • falcon – A high-performance framework for building cloud APIs and web app backends.
  • hug – A Python 3 framework for cleanly exposing APIs.
  • restless – Framework agnostic REST framework based on lessons learned from Tastypie.
  • ripozo – Quickly creating REST/HATEOAS/Hypermedia APIs.
  • sandman – Automated REST APIs for existing database-driven systems.

Robotics

Libraries for robotics.

• PythonRobotics – This is a compilation of various robotics algorithms with visualizations.
• rospy – This is a library for ROS (Robot Operating System).

RPC Servers

RPC-compatible servers.

• SimpleJSONRPCServer – This library is an implementation of the JSON-RPC specification.
• SimpleXMLRPCServer – (Python standard library) Simple XML-RPC server implementation, single-threaded.
• zeroRPC – zerorpc is a flexible RPC implementation based on ZeroMQ and MessagePack.

Science

Libraries for scientific computing. Also see Python-for-Scientists

• astropy – A community Python library for Astronomy.
• bcbio-nextgen – Providing best-practice pipelines for fully automated high throughput sequencing analysis.
• bccb – Collection of useful code related to biological analysis.
• Biopython – Biopython is a set of freely available tools for biological computation.
• cclib – A library for parsing and interpreting the results of computational chemistry packages.
• Colour – Implementing a comprehensive number of colour theory transformations and algorithms.
• NetworkX – A high-productivity software for complex networks.
• NIPY – A collection of neuroimaging toolkits.
• NumPy – A fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.
• Open Babel – A chemical toolbox designed to speak the many languages of chemical data.
• ObsPy – A Python toolbox for seismology.
• PyDy – Short for Python Dynamics, used to assist with workflow in the modeling of dynamic motion.
• PyMC – Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.
• QuTiP – Quantum Toolbox in Python.
• RDKit – Cheminformatics and Machine Learning Software.
• SciPy – A Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.
• statsmodels – Statistical modeling and econometrics in Python.
• SymPy – A Python library for symbolic mathematics.
• Zipline – A Pythonic algorithmic trading library.
• SimPy – A process-based discrete-event simulation framework.

Search

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

• elasticsearch-py – The official low-level Python client for Elasticsearch.
• elasticsearch-dsl-py – The official high-level Python client for Elasticsearch.
• django-haystack – Modular search for Django.
• pysolr – A lightweight Python wrapper for Apache Solr.
• whoosh – A fast, pure Python search engine library.

Serialization

Libraries for serializing complex data types

• marshmallow – A lightweight library for converting complex objects to and from simple Python datatypes.
• pysimdjson – A Python bindings for simdjson.
• python-rapidjson – A Python wrapper around RapidJSON.

Serverless Frameworks

Frameworks for developing serverless Python code.

• python-lambda – A toolkit for developing and deploying Python code in AWS Lambda.
• Zappa – A tool for deploying WSGI applications on AWS Lambda and API Gateway.

Specific Formats Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating specific text formats.

• General
  • tablib – A module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML.
• Office
  • openpyxl – A library for reading and writing Excel 2010 xlsx/xlsm/xltx/xltm files.
  • pyexcel – Providing one API for reading, manipulating and writing csv, ods, xls, xlsx and xlsm files.
  • python-docx – Reads, queries and modifies Microsoft Word 2007/2008 docx files.
  • python-pptx – Python library for creating and updating PowerPoint (.pptx) files.
  • unoconv – Convert between any document format supported by LibreOffice/OpenOffice.
  • XlsxWriter – A Python module for creating Excel .xlsx files.
  • xlwings – A BSD-licensed library that makes it easy to call Python from Excel and vice versa.
  • xlwt / xlrd – Writing and reading data and formatting information from Excel files.
• PDF
  • PDFMiner – A tool for extracting information from PDF documents.
  • PyPDF2 – A library capable of splitting, merging and transforming PDF pages.
  • ReportLab – Allowing Rapid creation of rich PDF documents.
• Markdown
  • Mistune – Fastest and full featured pure Python parsers of Markdown.
  • Python-Markdown – A Python implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown.
• YAML
  • PyYAML – YAML implementations for Python.
• CSV
  • csvkit – Utilities for converting to and working with CSV.
• Archive
  • unp – A command line tool that can unpack archives easily.

Static Site Generator

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

• mkdocs – Markdown friendly documentation generator.
• pelican – Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax.
• lektor – An easy to use static CMS and blog engine.
• nikola – A static website and blog generator.

Tagging

Libraries for tagging items.

• django-taggit – Simple tagging for Django.

Template Engine

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.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• Testing Frameworks
  • pytest – A mature full-featured Python testing tool.
  • hypothesis – Hypothesis is an advanced Quickcheck style property based testing library.
  • nose2 – The successor to nose, based on `unittest2.
  • Robot Framework – A generic test automation framework.
  • unittest – (Python standard library) Unit testing framework.
• Test Runners
  • green – A clean, colorful test runner.
  • mamba – The definitive testing tool for Python. Born under the banner of BDD.
  • tox – Auto builds and tests distributions in multiple Python versions
• GUI / Web Testing
  • locust – Scalable user load testing tool written in Python.
  • PyAutoGUI – PyAutoGUI is a cross-platform GUI automation Python module for human beings.
  • Selenium – Python bindings for Selenium WebDriver.
  • sixpack – A language-agnostic A/B Testing framework.
  • splinter – Open source tool for testing web applications.
• Mock
  • mock – (Python standard library) A mocking and patching library.
  • doublex – Powerful test doubles framework for Python.
  • freezegun – Travel through time by mocking the datetime module.
  • httmock – A mocking library for requests for Python 2.6+ and 3.2+.
  • httpretty – HTTP request mock tool for Python.
  • mocket – A socket mock framework with gevent/asyncio/SSL support.
  • responses – A utility library for mocking out the requests Python library.
  • VCR.py – Record and replay HTTP interactions on your tests.
• Object Factories
  • factory_boy – A test fixtures replacement for Python.
  • mixer – Another fixtures replacement. Supported Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Peewee and etc.
  • model_mommy – Creating random fixtures for testing in Django.
• Code Coverage
  • coverage – Code coverage measurement.
• Fake Data
  • mimesis – is a Python library that help you generate fake data.
  • fake2db – Fake database generator.
  • faker – A Python package that generates fake data.
  • radar – Generate random datetime / time.

Text Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating plain texts.

• General
  • chardet – Python 2/3 compatible character encoding detector.
  • difflib – (Python standard library) Helpers for computing deltas.
  • ftfy – Makes Unicode text less broken and more consistent automagically.
  • fuzzywuzzy – Fuzzy String Matching.
  • Levenshtein – Fast computation of Levenshtein distance and string similarity.
  • pangu.py – Paranoid text spacing.
  • pyfiglet – An implementation of figlet written in Python.
  • pypinyin – Convert Chinese hanzi (漢字) to pinyin (拼音).
  • textdistance – Compute distance between sequences with 30+ algorithms.
  • unidecode – ASCII transliterations of Unicode text.
• Slugify
  • 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.
• Unique identifiers
  • hashids – Implementation of hashids in Python.
  • shortuuid – A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs.
• Parser
  • ply – Implementation of lex and yacc parsing tools for Python.
  • pygments – A generic syntax highlighter.
  • pyparsing – A general purpose framework for generating parsers.
  • python-nameparser – Parsing human names into their individual components.
  • python-phonenumbers – Parsing, formatting, storing and validating international phone numbers.
  • python-user-agents – Browser user agent parser.
  • sqlparse – A non-validating SQL parser.

Third-party APIs

Libraries for accessing third party services APIs. Also see List of Python API Wrappers and Libraries.

• apache-libcloud – One Python library for all clouds.
• boto3 – Python interface to Amazon Web Services.
• django-wordpress – WordPress models and views for Django.
• facebook-sdk – Facebook Platform Python SDK.
• google-api-python-client – Google APIs Client Library for Python.
• gspread – Google Spreadsheets Python API.
• twython – A Python wrapper for the Twitter API.

URL Manipulation

Libraries for parsing URLs.

• furl – A small Python library that makes parsing and manipulating URLs easy.
• purl – A simple, immutable URL class with a clean API for interrogation and manipulation.
• pyshorteners – A pure Python URL shortening lib.
• webargs – A friendly library for parsing HTTP request arguments with built-in support for popular web frameworks.

Video

Libraries for manipulating video and GIFs.

• moviepy – A module for script-based movie editing with many formats, including animated GIFs.
• scikit-video – Video processing routines for SciPy.

WSGI Servers

WSGI-compatible web servers.

• bjoern – Asynchronous, very fast and written in C.
• gunicorn – Pre-forked, partly written in C.
• uWSGI – A project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services, written in C.
• waitress – Multi-threaded, powers Pyramid.
• werkzeug – A WSGI utility library for Python that powers Flask and can easily be embedded into your own projects.

Web Asset Management

Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.

• django-compressor – Compresses linked and inline JavaScript or CSS into a single cached file.
• django-pipeline – An asset packaging library for Django.
• django-storages – A collection of custom storage back ends for Django.
• fanstatic – Packages, optimizes, and serves static file dependencies as Python packages.
• fileconveyor – A daemon to detect and sync files to CDNs, S3 and FTP.
• flask-assets – Helps you integrate webassets into your Flask app.
• webassets – Bundles, optimizes, and manages unique cache-busting URLs for static resources.

Web Content Extracting

Libraries for extracting web contents.

• html2text – Convert HTML to Markdown-formatted text.
• lassie – Web Content Retrieval for Humans.
• micawber – A small library for extracting rich content from URLs.
• newspaper – News extraction, article extraction and content curation in Python.
• python-readability – Fast Python port of arc90’s readability tool.
• requests-html – Pythonic HTML Parsing for Humans.
• sumy – A module for automatic summarization of text documents and HTML pages.
• textract – Extract text from any document, Word, PowerPoint, PDFs, etc.
• toapi – Every web site provides APIs.

Web Crawling

Libraries to automate web scraping.

• cola – A distributed crawling framework.
• feedparser – Universal feed parser.
• grab – Site scraping framework.
• MechanicalSoup – A Python library for automating interaction with websites.
• pyspider – A powerful spider system.
• robobrowser – A simple, Pythonic library for browsing the web without a standalone web browser.
• scrapy – A fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework.
• portia – Visual scraping for Scrapy.

Web Frameworks

Full stack web frameworks.

• Django – The most popular web framework in Python.
  • awesome-django
• Flask – A microframework for Python.
  • awesome-flask
• Masonite – The modern and developer centric Python web framework.
• Pyramid – A small, fast, down-to-earth, open source Python web framework.
  • awesome-pyramid
• Sanic – Web server that’s written to go fast.
• Vibora – Fast, efficient and asynchronous Web framework inspired by Flask.
• Tornado – A Web framework and asynchronous networking library.

WebSocket

Libraries for working with WebSocket.

• autobahn-python – WebSocket & WAMP for Python on Twisted and asyncio.
• crossbar – Open-source Unified Application Router (Websocket & WAMP for Python on Autobahn).
• django-channels – Developer-friendly asynchrony for Django.
• django-socketio – WebSockets for Django.
• WebSocket-for-Python – WebSocket client and server library for Python 2 and 3 as well as PyPy.

Services

Online tools and APIs to simplify development.

Continuous Integration

Also see awesome-CIandCD.

• CircleCI – A CI service that can run very fast parallel testing.
• Travis CI – A popular CI service for your open source and private projects. (GitHub only)
• Vexor CI – A continuous integration tool for private apps with pay-per-minute billing model.
• Wercker – A Docker-based platform for building and deploying applications and microservices.

Code Quality

• Codacy – Automated Code Review to ship better code, faster.
• Codecov – Code coverage dashboard.
• CodeFactor – Automated Code Review for Git.
• Landscape – Hosted continuous Python code metrics.
• PEP 8 Speaks – GitHub integration to review code style.

Resources

Where to discover new Python libraries.

Podcasts

• From Python Import Podcast
• Podcast.init
• Python Bytes
• Python Testing
• Radio Free Python
• Talk Python To Me
• Test and Code

Twitter

• @codetengu
• @getpy
• @importpython
• @planetpython
• @pycoders
• @pypi
• @pythontrending
• @PythonWeekly
• @TalkPython
• @realpython

Websites

• /r/CoolGithubProjects
• /r/Python
• Awesome Python @LibHunt
• Django Packages
• Full Stack Python
• Python Cheatsheet
• Python Hackers
• Python ZEEF
• Python 开发社区
• Real Python
• Trending Python repositories on GitHub today
• Сообщество Python Программистов

Weekly

• CodeTengu Weekly 碼天狗週刊
• Import Python Newsletter
• Pycoder’s Weekly
• Python Weekly
• Python Tricks

Source

Source: https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python

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