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Environment Management

Libraries for Python version and environment management.

p - Dead simple interactive Python version management.
pyenv - Simple Python version management.
PyRun - A one-file, no-installation-needed version of Python.
Vex - Run a command in the named virtualenv.
virtualenv - A tool to create isolated Python environments.
virtualenvwrapper - A set of extensions to virtualenv.

Package Management

Libraries for package and dependency management.

pip - The Python package and dependency manager.
- Python Package Index
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.

Package Repositories

Local PyPI repository server and proxies.

warehouse - Next generation Python Package Repository (PyPI).
- Warehouse
bandersnatch - PyPI mirroring tool provided by Python Packaging Authority (PyPA)
devpi - PyPI server and packaging/testing/release tool.
localshop - PyPI server which mirrors official packages on-demand, and also supports local (private) package uploads.

Distribution

Libraries to create packaged executables for release distribution.

PyInstaller - Converts Python programs into stand-alone executables (cross-platform).
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).
pynsist - A tool to build Windows installers, installers bundle Python itself.

Build Tools

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.
BitBake - A make-like build tool with the special focus of distributions and packages for embedded Linux.
fabricate - A build tool that finds dependencies automatically for any language.
PlatformIO - A console tool to build code with different development platforms.
PyBuilder - A continuous build tool written in pure Python which mainly targets Python applications.
SCons - A software construction tool.

Interactive Interpreter

Interactive Python interpreters (REPL).

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

Files

Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.

imghdr - (Python standard library) Determine the type of an image.
mimetypes - (Python standard library) Map filenames to MIME types.
path.py - A module wrapper for os.path.
pathlib - (Python standard library in Python 3.4+) An cross-platform, object-oriented path library.
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.

Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

arrow - Better dates & times for Python.
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.
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.

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.
- esmre - Regular expression accelerator.
- 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 - Spacing texts for CJK and alphanumerics.
- pyfiglet - An implementation of figlet written in Python.
- shortuuid - A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs.
- unidecode - ASCII transliterations of Unicode text.
- uniout - Print readable chars instead of the escaped string.
- xpinyin - A library to translate Chinese hanzi (漢字) to pinyin (拼音).
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.
Parser
- phonenumbers - Parsing, formatting, storing and validating international phone numbers.
- 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-user-agents - Browser user agent parser.
- sqlparse - A non-validating SQL parser.

Specific Formats Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating specific text formats.

General
- tablib - A module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML.
Office
- Marmir - Takes Python data structures and turns them into spreadsheets.
- openpyxl - A library for reading and writing Excel 2010 xlsx/xlsm/xltx/xltm files.
- python-docx - Reads, queries and modifies Microsoft Word 2007/2008 docx 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.

Natural Language Processing

Libraries for working with human languages.

NLTK - A leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data.
jieba - Chinese Words Segmentation Utilities.
langid.py - Stand-alone language identification system.
Pattern - A web mining module for the Python. It has tools for natural language processing, machine learning, among others.
SnowNLP - A library for processing Chinese text.
TextBlob - Providing a consistent API for diving into common NLP tasks. Stands on the giant shoulders of NLTK and Pattern.

Documentation

Libraries for generating project documentation.

Sphinx - Python Documentation generator.
- awesome-sphinxdoc
MkDocs - Markdown friendly documentation generator.
pdoc - Epydoc replacement to auto generate API documentation for Python libraries.
Pycco - The original quick-and-dirty, hundred-line-long, literate-programming-style documentation generator.

Configuration

Libraries for storing configuration options.

config - Hierarchical config from the author of logging.
ConfigObj - INI file parser with validation.
ConfigParser - (Python standard library) INI file parser.
profig - Config from multiple formats with value conversion.

Command-line Tools

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.
- 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.
- clint - Python Command-line Application Tools.
- colorama - Cross-platform colored terminal text.
- docopt - Pythonic command line arguments parser.
- Gooey - Turn command line programs into a full GUI application with one line
- pyCLI - Command-line applications supporting standard command line parsing, logging, unit and functional testing.
- python-prompt-toolkit - A Library for building powerful interactive command lines.
Productivity Tools
- bashplotlib - Making basic plots in the terminal. It's a quick way to visualize data without GUI.
- caniusepython3 - Determine what projects are blocking you from porting to Python 3.
- cookiecutter - A command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates). E.g. Python package projects, jQuery plugin projects.
- doitlive - A tool for live presentations in the terminal.
- httpie - A command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement.
- PathPicker - Select files out of bash output.
- percol - Adds flavor of interactive selection to the traditional pipe concept on UNIX.
- RainbowStream - Smart and nice Twitter client on terminal.
- thefuck - Correcting your previous console command.

Downloader

Libraries for downloading.

coursera - Script for downloading Coursera.org videos and naming them.
s3cmd - A command line tool for managing Amazon S3 and CloudFront.
s4cmd - Super S3 command line tool, good for higher performance.
subliminal - Library and command line tool to search and download subtitles.
WikiTeam - Tools for downloading and preserving wikis.
you-get - A YouTube/Youku/Niconico video downloader written in Python 3.
youtube-dl - A small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.

Imagery

Libraries for manipulating images.

pillow - Pillow is the friendly PIL fork.
hmap - Image histogram remapping.
imgSeek - A project for searching a collection of images using visual similarity.
nude.py - Nudity detection.
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.

OCR

Libraries for Optical Character Recognition.

pyocr - A wrapper for Tesseract and Cuneiform.
pytesseract - Another wrapper for Google Tesseract OCR.
python-tesseract - A wrapper class for Google Tesseract OCR.

Audio

Libraries for manipulating audio.

audiolazy - Expressive Digital Signal Processing (DSP) package for Python.
audioread - Cross-library (GStreamer + Core Audio + MAD + FFmpeg) audio decoding.
beets - A music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger.
dejavu - Audio fingerprinting and recognition.
django-elastic-transcoder - Django + Amazon Elastic Transcoder.
eyeD3 - A tool for working with audio files, specifically MP3 files containing ID3 metadata.
id3reader - A Python module for reading MP3 meta data.
m3u8 - A module for parsing m3u8 file.
mutagen - A Python module to handle audio metadata.
pydub - Manipulate audio with a simple and easy high level interface.
pyechonest - Python client for the Echo Nest API.
talkbox - A Python library for speech/signal processing.
TimeSide - Open web audio processing framework.
tinytag - A library for reading music meta data of MP3, OGG, FLAC and Wave files.

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.
shorten.tv - Video summarization.

Geolocation

Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

GeoDjango - A world-class geographic web framework.
django-countries - A Django app that provides country choices for use with forms, flag icons static files, and a country field for models.
GeoIP - Python API for MaxMind GeoIP Legacy Database.
geojson - Python bindings and utilities for GeoJSON.
geopy - Python Geocoding Toolbox.
pygeoip - Pure Python GeoIP API.

HTTP

Libraries for working with HTTP.

requests - HTTP Requests for Humans™.
grequests - requests + gevent for asynchronous HTTP requests.
httplib2 - Comprehensive HTTP client library.
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.

Database

Databases implemented in Python.

pickleDB - A simple and lightweight key-value store for Python.
PipelineDB - The Streaming SQL Database.
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.

Relational Databases
- apsw - Another Python SQLite wrapper.
- dataset - Store Python dicts in a database - works with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
- mysql-connector-python - A pure Python MySQL driver from Oracle.
- mysql-python - The MySQL database connector for Python.
- mysqlclient - mysql-python fork supporting Python 3.
- oursql - A better MySQL connector with support for native prepared statements and BLOBs.
- psycopg2 - The most popular PostgreSQL adapter for Python.
- PyMySQL - Pure Python MySQL driver compatible to mysql-python.
- queries - A wrapper of the psycopg2 library for interacting with PostgreSQL.
- txpostgres - Twisted based asynchronous driver for PostgreSQL.
NoSQL Databases
- cassandra-python-driver - Python driver for Cassandra.
- HappyBase - A developer-friendly library for Apache HBase.
- Plyvel - A fast and feature-rich Python interface to LevelDB.
- py2neo - Python wrapper client for Neo4j's restful interface.
- pycassa - Python Thrift driver for Cassandra.
- PyMongo - The official Python client for MongoDB.
- redis-py - The Redis Python Client.
- telephus - Twisted based client for Cassandra.
- txRedis - Twisted based client for 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
- peewee - A small, expressive ORM.
- PonyORM - ORM that provides a generator-oriented interface to SQL.
NoSQL Databases
- django-mongodb-engine - Django MongoDB Backend.
- flywheel - Object mapper for Amazon DynamoDB.
- MongoEngine - A Python Object-Document-Mapper for working with MongoDB.
- redisco - A Python Library for Simple Models and Containers Persisted in Redis.
Others
- butterdb - A Python ORM for Google Drive Spreadsheets.

Web Frameworks

Full stack web frameworks.

Django - The most popular web framework in Python.
- awesome-django
Flask - A microframework for Python.
- awesome-flask
Pyramid - A small, fast, down-to-earth, open source Python web framework.
- awesome-pyramid
Bluebream - An open-source web application server, framework and library, formerly known as Zope 3.
Bottle - A fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework.
CherryPy - A Minimalist Python Web Framework, HTTP/1.1-compliant and WSGI thread-pooled.
Grok - A framework built on the existing Zope 3 libraries.
guava - A lightweight and high performance web framework for Python written in C.
TurboGears - The Web Framework that starts as a microframework and scales up to a full stack solution.
web.py - A web framework for Python that is as simple as it is powerful.
web2py - A full stack web framework and platform focused in the ease of use.

Permissions

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

Carteblanche - Module to align code with thoughts of users and designers. Also magically handles navigation and permissions.
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.

CMS

Content Management Systems.

django-cms - An Open source enterprise CMS based on the Django.
djedi-cms - A lightweight but yet powerful Django CMS with plugins, inline editing and performance in mind.
FeinCMS - One of the most advanced Content Management Systems built on Django.
Kotte - A high-level, Pythonic web application framework built on Pyramid.
Mezzanine - A powerful, consistent, and flexible content management platform.
Opps - A Django-based CMS for magazines, newspapers websites and portals with high-traffic.
Plone - A CMS built on top of the open source application server Zope.
Quokka - Flexible, extensible, small CMS powered by Flask and MongoDB.
Wagtail - A Django content management system.
Widgy - Last CMS framework, based on Django.

E-commerce

Frameworks and libraries for e-commerce and payments.

django-oscar - An open-source e-commerce framework for Django.
django-shop - A Django based shop system.
shoop - An open source E-Commerce platform based on Django.
alipay - Unofficial Alipay API for Python.
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 solution.
python-currencies - Display money format and its filthy currencies.

RESTful API

Libraries for developing RESTful APIs.

django-rest-framework - A powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.
django-tastypie - Creating delicious APIs for Django apps.
django-formapi - Create JSON APIs with HMAC authentication and Django form-validation.
flask-api - Browsable Web APIs for Flask.
flask-restful - An extension for Flask that adds support for quickly building REST APIs.
flask-restless - Generating RESTful APIs for database models defined with SQLAlchemy.
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.
savory-pie - REST API building library (Django, and others)
ripozo - Quickly creating REST/HATEOAS/Hypermedia APIs with extensions for Flask and Django.
cornice - A REST framework for Pyramid.

Authentication

Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.

OAuth
- Authomatic - Simple but powerful framework agnostic authentication/authorization client.
- django-allauth - Authentication app for Django that "just works."
- django-oauth-toolkit - OAuth2 goodies for the Djangonauts.
- django-oauth2-provider - Providing OAuth2 access to Django app.
- Flask-OAuthlib - OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0 implementation of client and provider for Flask.
- 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.
- rauth - A Python library for OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0, and Ofly.
- sanction - A dead simple OAuth2 client implementation.
Others
- jose - JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption draft implementation.
- PyJWT - Implementation of the JSON Web Token draft 01.
- python-jws - Implementation of JSON Web Signatures draft 02.
- python-jwt - Module for generating and verifying JSON Web Tokens.

Template Engine

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.

Jinja2 - A modern and designer friendly templating language.
Chameleon - An HTML/XML template engine. Modeled after ZPT, optimized for speed.
Genshi - Python templating toolkit for generation of web-aware output.
Mako - Hyperfast and lightweight templating for the Python platform.
Spitfire - A very fast Python template compiler.

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.
simpleq - A simple, infinitely scalable, Amazon SQS based queue.

Search

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.
elasticsearch-dsl-py - The official high-level Python client for Elasticsearch.
solrpy - A Python client for solr.
Whoosh - A fast, pure Python search engine library.

News Feed

Libraries for building user's activities.

django-activity-stream - Generate generic activity streams from the actions on your site.
Feedly - A library to build newsfeed and notification systems using Cassandra and Redis.

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-storages - A collection of custom storage back ends for Django.
fanstatic - Packages, optimizes, and serves static file dependencies as Python packages.
File Conveyor - A daemon to detect and sync files to CDNs, S3 and FTP.
Flask-Assets - Helps you integrate webassets into your Flask app.
glue - Glue is a simple command line tool to generate CSS sprites.
jinja-assets-compressor - A Jinja extension to compile and compress your assets.
webassets - Bundles, optimizes, and manages unique cache-busting URLs for static resources.

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

Beaker - A library for caching and sessions for use with web applications and stand-alone Python scripts and applications.
django-cache-machine - Automatic caching and invalidation for Django models.
django-cacheops - A slick ORM cache with automatic granular event-driven invalidation.
django-viewlet - Render template parts with extended cache control.
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.
johnny-cache - A caching framework for django applications.
pylibmc - A Python wrapper around the libmemcached interface.

Email

Libraries for sending and parsing email.

django-celery-ses - Django email back end with AWS SES and Celery.
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.
inbox - The open source email toolkit.
lamson - Pythonic SMTP Application Server.
mailjet - Mailjet API implementation for batch mailing, statistics and more.
marrow.mailer - High-performance extensible mail delivery framework.
modoboa - A mail hosting and management platform including a modern and simplified Web UI.
pyzmail - Compose, send and parse emails.
Talon - Mailgun library to extract message quotations and signatures.

Internationalization

Libraries for working with i18n.

Babel - An internationalization library for Python.
Korean - A library for Korean morphology.

URL Manipulation

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.
short_url - Python implementation for generating Tiny URL and bit.ly-like URLs.
webargs - A friendly library for parsing HTTP request arguments, with built-in support for popular web frameworks, including Flask, Django, Bottle, Tornado, and Pyramid.

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.
xhtml2pdf - HTML/CSS to PDF converter.
xmltodict - Working with XML feel like you are working with JSON.

Web Crawling

Libraries for scraping websites.

Scrapy - A fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework.
cola - A distributed crawling framework.
Demiurge - PyQuery-based scraping micro-framework.
feedparser - Universal feed parser.
Grab - Site scraping framework.
MechanicalSoup - A Python library for automating interaction with websites.
portia - Visual scraping for Scrapy.
pyspider - A powerful spider system.
RoboBrowser - A simple, Pythonic library for browsing the web without a standalone web browser.

Web Content Extracting

Libraries for extracting web contents.

Haul - An Extensible Image Crawler.
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.
opengraph - A Python module to parse the Open Graph Protocol
python-goose - HTML Content/Article Extractor.
python-readability - Fast Python port of arc90's readability tool.
sanitize - Bringing sanity to world of messed-up data.
sumy - A module for automatic summarization of text documents and HTML pages.
textract - Extract text from any document, Word, PowerPoint, PDFs, etc.

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-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-JSON - A WTForms extension for JSON data handling.
WTForms - A flexible forms validation and rendering library.

Data Validation

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

Cerberus - A mappings-validator with a variety of rules, normalization-features and simple customization that uses a pythonic schema-definition.
colander - A system for validating and deserializing data obtained via XML, JSON, an HTML form post or any other equally simple data serialization.
kmatch - A language for matching/validating/filtering Python dictionaries.
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. It is primarily intended for validating data coming into Python as JSON, YAML, etc.

Anti-spam

Libraries for fighting spam.

django-simple-captcha - A simple and highly customizable Django app to add captcha images to any Django form.
django-simple-spam-blocker - Simple spam blocker for Django.

Tagging

Libraries for tagging items.

django-taggit - Simple tagging for Django.

Admin Panels

Libraries for administrative interfaces.

Ajenti - The admin panel your servers deserve.
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.
Grappelli – A jazzy skin for the Django Admin-Interface.

Static Site Generator

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.
Tinkerer - Tinkerer is a blogging engine/.static website generator powered by Sphinx.

Processes

Libraries for starting and communicating with OS processes.

envoy - Python subprocess for Humans™.
sarge - Yet another wrapper for subprocess.
sh - A full-fledged subprocess replacement for Python.

Concurrency and Parallelism

Libraries for concurrent and parallel execution.

multiprocessing - (Python standard library) Process-based "threading" interface.
threading - (Python standard library) Higher-level threading interface.
eventlet - Asynchronous framework with WSGI support.
gevent - A coroutine-based Python networking library that uses greenlet.
Tomorrow - Magic decorator syntax for asynchronous code.

Networking

Libraries for networking programming.

asyncio - (Python standard library in Python 3.4+) Asynchronous I/O, event loop, coroutines and tasks.
Tornado - A Web framework and asynchronous networking library.
Twisted - An event-driven networking engine.
pulsar - Event-driven concurrent framework for Python.
diesel - Greenlet-based event I/O Framework for Python.
pyzmq - A Python wrapper for the ZeroMQ message library.
txZMQ - Twisted based wrapper for the ZeroMQ message library.

WebSocket

Libraries for working with WebSocket.

AutobahnPython - WebSocket & WAMP for Python on Twisted and asyncio.
Crossbar - Open-source Unified Application Router (Websocket & WAMP for Python on Autobahn).
WebSocket-for-Python - WebSocket client and server library for Python 2 and 3 as well as PyPy.

WSGI Servers

WSGI-compatible web servers.

gunicorn - Pre-forked, partly written in C.
uwsgi - A project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services, written in C.
bjoern - Asynchronous, very fast and written in C.
fapws3 - Asynchronous (network side only), written in C.
meinheld - Asynchronous, partly written in C.
netius - Asynchronous, very fast.
paste - Multi-threaded, stable, tried and tested.
rocket - Multi-threaded.
waitress - Multi-threaded, poweres Pyramid.
Werkzeug - A WSGI utility library for Python that powers Flask and can easily be embedded into your own projects.

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.

Cryptography

cryptography - A package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.
hashids - Implementation of hashids in Python.
Paramiko - A Python (2.6+, 3.3+) implementation of the SSHv2 protocol, providing both client and server functionality.
Passlib - Secure password storage/hashing library, very high level.
PyCrypto - The Python Cryptography Toolkit.
PyNacl - Python binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library.

GUI

Libraries for working with graphical user interface applications.

curses - Built-in wrapper for ncurses used to create terminal GUI applications.
enaml - Creating beautiful user-interfaces with Declaratic Syntax like QML.
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.
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.
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. It is based on pyglet.
Panda3D - 3D game engine developed by Disney and maintained by Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center. Written in C++, completely wrapped in Python.
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.
PySFML - Python bindings for SFML
RenPy - A Visual Novel engine.

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with logs.

logging - (Python standard library) Logging facility for Python.
logbook - Logging replacement for Python.
Eliot - Logging for complex & distributed systems.
Raven - The Python client for Sentry.
Sentry - A realtime logging and aggregation server.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

Testing Frameworks
- unittest - (Python standard library) Unit testing framework.
- contexts - A BDD framework for Python 3.3+. Inspired by C#'s Machine.Specifications.
- hypothesis - Hypothesis is an advanced Quickcheck style property based testing library.
- mamba - The definitive testing tool for Python. Born under the banner of BDD.
- nose - nose extends unittest.
- pyshould - Should style asserts based on PyHamcrest.
- pytest - A mature full-featured Python testing tool.
- pyvows - BDD style testing for Python. Inspired by Vows.js.
- Robot Framework - A generic test automation framework.
Web Testing
- Selenium - Python bindings for Selenium WebDriver.
- locust - Scalable user load testing tool written in Python.
- sixpack - A language-agnostic A/B Testing framework.
- splinter - Open source tool for testing web applications.
Mock
- 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.
- mock - A Python Mocking and Patching Library for Testing.
- responses - A utility library for mocking out the requests Python library.
Code Coverage
- coverage - Code coverage measurement.
Fake Data
- factory_boy - A test fixtures replacement for Python.
- fake2db - Fake database generator.
- faker - A Python package that generates fake data.
- mixer - Another fixtures replacement. Supported Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Peewee and etc.
- model_mommy - Creating random fixtures for testing in Django.
- radar - Generate random datetime / time.
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.

Code Analysis and Linter

Libraries and tools for analysing, parsing and manipulation codebases.

Code Analysis
- code2flow - Turn your Python and JavaScript code into DOT flowcharts.
- pycallgraph - A library that visualises the flow (call graph) of your Python application.
- pysonar2 - A type inferencer and indexer for Python.
Linter
- Flake8 - The modular source code checker: pep8, pyflakes and co.
- pylama - Code audit tool for Python and JavaScript.
- Pylint - A source code analyzer.

Debugging Tools

Libraries for debugging code.

ipdb - IPython-enabled pdb.
django-debug-toolbar - Display various debug information about the current request/response.
django-devserver - A drop-in replacement for Django's runserver.
flask-debugtoolbar - A port of the django-debug-toolbar to flask.
line_profiler - Line-by-line profiling.
memory_profiler - Monitor Memory usage of Python code.
profiling - An interactive Python profiler.
pudb – A full-screen, console-based Python debugger.
pyelftools - A pure-Python library for parsing and analyzing ELF files and DWARF debugging information.
pyringe - Debugger capable of attaching to and injecting code into Python processes.
python-statsd - Python Client for the statsd server.
wdb - An improbable web debugger through WebSockets.
winpdb - A Platform Independent Python Debugger with GUI, capable of remote debugging based on rpdb2.

Science and Data Analysis

Libraries for scientific computing and data analyzing.

astropy - A community Python library for Astronomy.
bcbio-nextgen - A toolkit 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.
blaze - NumPy and Pandas interface to Big Data.
cclib - A library for parsing and interpreting the results of computational chemistry packages.
NetworkX - A high-productivity software for complex networks.
Numba - Python JIT (just in time) complier to LLVM aimed at scientific Python by the developers of Cython and NumPy.
NumPy - A fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.
Open Babel - A chemical toolbox designed to speak the many languages of chemical data.
Open Mining - Business Intelligence (BI) in Python (Pandas web interface)
orange - Data mining, data visualization, analysis and machine learning through visual programming or Python scripting.
Pandas - A library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools.
PyDy - Short for Python Dynamics, used to assist with workflow in the modeling of dynamic motion based around NumPy, SciPy, IPython, and matplotlib.
PyMC - Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.
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.

Data Visualization

Libraries for visualizing data. See: awesome-javascript.

matplotlib - A Python 2D plotting library.
bokeh - Interactive Web Plotting for Python.
ggplot - Same API as ggplot2 for R.
plotly - Collaborative web plotting for Python and matplotlib.
pygal - A Python SVG Charts Creator.
pygraphviz - Python interface to Graphviz.
PyQtGraph - Interactive and realtime 2D/3D/Image plotting and science/engineering widgets.
vincent - A Python to Vega translator.
VisPy - High-performance scientific visualization based on OpenGL.

Computer Vision

Libraries for computer vision.

OpenCV - Open Source Computer Vision Library.
SimpleCV - An open source framework for building computer vision applications.

Machine Learning

Libraries for Machine Learning. See: awesome-machine-learning.

Crab - A ﬂexible, fast recommender engine.
gensim - Topic Modelling for Humans.
hebel - GPU-Accelerated Deep Learning Library in Python.
NuPIC - Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing.
pattern - Web mining module for Python.
PyBrain - Another Python Machine Learning Library.
Pylearn2 - A Machine Learning library based on Theano.
python-recsys - A Python library for implementing a Recommender System.
scikit-learn - A Python module for machine learning built on top of SciPy.
vowpal_porpoise - A lightweight Python wrapper for Vowpal Wabbit.

MapReduce

Framworks and libraries for MapReduce.

dpark - Python clone of Spark, a MapReduce alike framework in Python.
dumbo - Python module that allows one to easily write and run Hadoop programs.
luigi - A module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs.
mrjob - Run MapReduce jobs on Hadoop or Amazon Web Services.
PySpark - The Spark Python API.
streamparse - Run Python code against real-time streams of data. Integrates with Apache Storm.

Functional Programming

Functional Programming with Python.

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.

Third-party APIs

Libraries for accessing third party services APIs. See: List of Python API Wrappers and Libraries.

apache-libcloud - One Python library for all clouds.
boto - Python interface to Amazon Web Services.
django-wordpress - WordPress models and views for Django.
facebook-sdk - Facebook Platform Python SDK.
facepy - Facepy makes it really easy to interact with Facebook's Graph API
gmail - A Pythonic interface for Gmail.
google-api-python-client - Google APIs Client Library for Python.
gspread - Google Spreadsheets Python API.
twython - A Python wrapper for the Twitter API.

DevOps Tools

Software and libraries for DevOps.

Ansible - A radically simple IT automation platform.
SaltStack - Infrastructure automation and management system.
Fabric - A simple, Pythonic tool for remote execution and deployment.
cuisine - Chef-like functionality for Fabric.
Docker Compose - Fast, isolated development environments using Docker.
Fabtools - Tools for writing awesome Fabric files.
gitapi - Pure-Python API for git.
gunnery - Multipurpose task execution tool for distributed systems with web-based interface.
hgapi - Pure-Python API for Mercurial.
honcho - A Python port of Foreman, a tool 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.
provy - An easy-to-use provisioning system in Python.
psutil - A cross-platform process and system utilities module.
supervisor - Supervisor process control system for UNIX.

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/build tool.
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.

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.

High Performance

Libraries for making Python faster.

Cython - Optimizing Static Compiler 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.
Pyston - A Python implementation built using LLVM and modern JIT techniques with the goal of achieving good performance.
Stackless Python - An enhanced version of the Python.

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.

Network Virtualization and SDN

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

Mininet - A popular network emulator and API written in Python.
POX - An open source development platform for Python-based Software Defined Networking (SDN) control applications, such as OpenFlow SDN controllers.
Pyretic - A member of the Frenetic family of SDN programming languages that provides powerful abstractions over network switches or emulators.
SDX Platform - SDN based IXP implementation that leverages Mininet, POX and Pyretic.

Hardware

Libraries for programming with hardware.

ino - Command line toolkit for working with Arduino.
Pyro - Python Robotics.
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.

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.

Miscellaneous

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

blinker - A fast Python in-process signal/event dispatching system.
itsdangerous - Various helpers to pass trusted data to untrusted environments.
pluginbase - A simple but flexible plugin system for Python.
Pychievements - A framework for creating and tracking achievements.

Algorithms and Design Patterns

Python implementation of algorithms and design patterns.

algorithms - A module of algorithms for Python.
python-patterns - A collection of design patterns in Python.

Editor Plugins

Plugins for editors and IDEs.

Vim
- YouCompleteMe - Includes Jedi-based completion engine for Python.
- 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.
Emacs
- Elpy - Emacs Python Development Environment.
Sublime Text
- SublimeJEDI - A Sublime Text plugin to the awesome auto-complete library Jedi.
- Anaconda - Anaconda turns your Sublime Text 3 in a full featured Python development IDE.

IDEs

Popular Python IDEs.

PyCharm - Commercial Python IDE based on the IntelliJ platform by JetBrains. Has free community edition available.
Komodo - Commercial polyglot IDE with support for Python.
LiClipse - Free polyglot IDE based on Eclipse. Uses PyDev for Python support.
Spyder - Open Source Python IDE.
WingIDE - Commercial IDE for Python.

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