Awesome Python
A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources.
Inspired by awesome-php.
- Awesome Python
- Admin Panels
- Algorithms and Design Patterns
- ASGI Servers
- Asynchronous Programming
- Audio
- Authentication
- Build Tools
- Built-in Classes Enhancement
- Caching
- ChatOps Tools
- CMS
- Code Analysis
- Command-line Interface Development
- Command-line Tools
- Compatibility
- Computer Vision
- Concurrency and Parallelism
- Configuration
- Cryptography
- Data Analysis
- Data Validation
- Data Visualization
- Database Drivers
- Database
- Date and Time
- Debugging Tools
- Deep Learning
- DevOps Tools
- Distributed Computing
- Distribution
- Documentation
- Downloader
- E-commerce
- Editor Plugins and IDEs
- Enterprise Application Integrations
- Environment Management
- Files
- Foreign Function Interface
- Forms
- Functional Programming
- Game Development
- Geolocation
- GUI Development
- Hardware
- HTML Manipulation
- HTTP Clients
- Image Processing
- Implementations
- Interactive Interpreter
- Internationalization
- Job Scheduler
- Logging
- Machine Learning
- Miscellaneous
- Natural Language Processing
- Network Virtualization
- News Feed
- ORM
- Package Management
- Package Repositories
- Penetration testing
- Permissions
- Processes
- Recommender Systems
- Refactoring
- RESTful API
- Robotics
- RPC Servers
- Science
- Search
- Serialization
- Serverless Frameworks
- Shell
- Specific Formats Processing
- Static Site Generator
- Tagging
- Task Queues
- Template Engine
- Testing
- Text Processing
- Third-party APIs
- URL Manipulation
- Video
- Web Asset Management
- Web Content Extracting
- Web Crawling
- Web Frameworks
- WebSocket
- WSGI Servers
- Resources
- Contributing
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.
- jet-bridge - Admin panel framework for any application with nice UI (ex Jet Django)
- wooey - A Django app which creates automatic web UIs for Python scripts.
Algorithms and Design Patterns
Python implementation of data structures, algorithms and design patterns. Also see awesome-algorithms.
- Algorithms
- algorithms - Minimal examples of data structures and algorithms.
- python-ds - A collection of data structure and algorithms for coding interviews.
- sortedcontainers - Fast and pure-Python implementation of sorted collections.
- TheAlgorithms - All Algorithms implemented in Python.
- Design Patterns
- PyPattyrn - A simple yet effective library for implementing common design patterns.
- python-patterns - A collection of design patterns in Python.
- transitions - A lightweight, object-oriented finite state machine implementation.
ASGI Servers
ASGI-compatible web servers.
- daphne - A HTTP, HTTP2 and WebSocket protocol server for ASGI and ASGI-HTTP.
- uvicorn - A lightning-fast ASGI server implementation, using uvloop and httptools.
Asynchronous Programming
- asyncio - (Python standard library) Asynchronous I/O, event loop, coroutines and tasks.
- trio - A friendly library for async concurrency and I/O.
- Twisted - An event-driven networking engine.
- uvloop - Ultra fast asyncio event loop.
Audio
Libraries for manipulating audio and its metadata.
- Audio
- audioread - Cross-library (GStreamer + Core Audio + MAD + FFmpeg) audio decoding.
- dejavu - Audio fingerprinting and recognition.
- kapre - Keras Audio Preprocessors
- librosa - Python library for audio and music analysis
- matchering - A library for automated reference audio mastering.
- 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.
- 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.
- dataclasses - (Python standard library) Data classes.
- DottedDict - A library that provides a method of accessing lists and dicts with a dotted path notation.
CMS
Content Management Systems.
- django-cms - An Open source enterprise CMS based on the Django.
- feincms - One of the most advanced Content Management Systems built on Django.
- indico - A feature-rich event management system, made @ CERN.
- 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.
- wagtail - A Django content management system.
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.
- vulture - A tool for finding and analysing dead Python code.
- Code Linters
- flake8 - A wrapper around
pycodestyle
,pyflakes
and McCabe. - pylama - A code audit tool for Python and JavaScript.
- pylint - A fully customizable source code analyzer.
- wemake-python-styleguide - The strictest and most opinionated python linter ever.
- flake8 - A wrapper around
- Code Formatters
- Static Type Checkers, also see awesome-python-typing
- mypy - Check variable types during compile time.
- pyre-check - Performant type checking.
- typeshed - Collection of library stubs for Python, with static types.
- Static Type Annotations Generators
- MonkeyType - A system for Python that generates static type annotations by collecting runtime types.
- pyannotate - Auto-generate PEP-484 annotations.
- pytype - Pytype checks and infers types for Python code - without requiring type annotations.
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.
- 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
- alive-progress - A new kind of Progress Bar, with real-time throughput, eta and very cool animations.
- 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.
- rich - Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. Also provides a great
RichHandler
log handler. - tqdm - Fast, extensible progress bar for loops and CLI.
Command-line Tools
Useful CLI-based tools for productivity.
- Productivity Tools
- copier - A library and command-line utility for rendering projects templates.
- 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.
- Invoke - A tool for managing shell-oriented subprocesses and organizing executable Python code into CLI-invokable tasks.
- 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.
- iredis - Redis CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
- kube-shell - An integrated shell for working with the Kubernetes CLI.
- litecli - SQLite CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
- mycli - MySQL CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
- pgcli - PostgreSQL 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.
- modernize - Modernizes Python code for eventual Python 3 migration.
- six - Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities.
Computer Vision
Libraries for Computer Vision.
- EasyOCR - Ready-to-use OCR with 40+ languages supported.
- Face Recognition - Simple facial recognition library.
- Kornia - Open Source Differentiable Computer Vision Library for PyTorch.
- OpenCV - Open Source Computer Vision Library.
- pytesseract - A wrapper for Google Tesseract OCR.
- SimpleCV - An open source framework for building computer vision applications.
- tesserocr - Another simple, Pillow-friendly, wrapper around the
tesseract-ocr
API for OCR.
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.
- eventlet - Asynchronous framework with WSGI support.
- gevent - A coroutine-based Python networking library that uses greenlet.
- multiprocessing - (Python standard library) Process-based parallelism.
- scoop - Scalable Concurrent Operations in Python.
- uvloop - Ultra fast implementation of
asyncio
event loop on top oflibuv
.
Configuration
Libraries for storing and parsing configuration options.
- configobj - INI file parser with validation.
- configparser - (Python standard library) INI file parser.
- hydra - Hydra is a framework for elegantly configuring complex applications.
- 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.
- AWS Data Wrangler - Pandas on AWS.
- Blaze - NumPy and Pandas interface to Big Data.
- Open Mining - Business Intelligence (BI) in Pandas interface.
- Optimus - Agile Data Science Workflows made easy with PySpark.
- 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.
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
- Cartopy - A cartographic python library with matplotlib support
- Dash - Built on top of Flask, React and Plotly aimed at analytical web applications.
- diagrams - Diagram as Code.
- Matplotlib - A Python 2D plotting library.
- plotnine - A grammar of graphics for Python based on ggplot2.
- 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
- SQlite - awesome-sqlite
- sqlite3 - (Python standard library) SQlite interface compliant with DB-API 2.0
- SuperSQLite - A supercharged SQLite library built on top of apsw.
- Other Relational Databases
- pymssql - A simple database interface to Microsoft SQL Server.
- clickhouse-driver - Python driver with native interface for ClickHouse.
- 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 - A client library and toolkit for working with Neo4j.
- pymongo - The official Python client for MongoDB.
- redis-py - The Python client for Redis.
- Asynchronous Clients
- motor - The async Python driver for MongoDB.
Date and Time
Libraries for working with dates and times.
- Arrow - A Python library that offers a sensible and human-friendly approach to creating, manipulating, formatting and converting dates, times and timestamps.
- 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.
- maya - Datetimes for Humans.
- moment - A Python library for dealing with dates/times. Inspired by Moment.js.
- Pendulum - Python datetimes made easy.
- PyTime - An easy-to-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.
Debugging Tools
Libraries for debugging code.
- pdb-like Debugger
- 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.
- py-spy - A sampling profiler for Python programs. Written in Rust.
- pyflame - A ptracing profiler For Python.
- vprof - Visual Python profiler.
- Others
- 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.
- icecream - Inspect variables, expressions, and program execution with a single, simple function call.
- 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.
- Configuration Management
- ansible - A radically simple IT automation platform.
- cloudinit - A multi-distribution package that handles early initialization of a cloud instance.
- OpenStack - Open source software for building private and public clouds.
- pyinfra - A versatile CLI tools and python libraries to automate infrastructure.
- saltstack - Infrastructure automation and management system.
- SSH-style Deployment
- Process Management
- honcho - A Python clone of Foreman, for managing Procfile-based applications.
- supervisor - Supervisor process control system for UNIX.
- Monitoring
- psutil - A cross-platform process and system utilities module.
- Backup
- BorgBackup - A deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption.
- Others
- docker-compose - Fast, isolated development environments using Docker.
Distributed Computing
Frameworks and libraries for Distributed Computing.
- Batch Processing
- 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.
- PySpark - Apache Spark Python API.
- 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).
- pyarmor - A tool used to obfuscate python scripts, bind obfuscated scripts to fixed machine or expire obfuscated scripts.
- PyInstaller - Converts Python programs into stand-alone executables (cross-platform).
- pynsist - A tool to build Windows installers, installers bundle Python itself.
- shiv - A command line utility for building fully self-contained zipapps (PEP 441), but with all their dependencies included.
Documentation
Libraries for generating project documentation.
- sphinx - Python Documentation generator.
- pdoc - Epydoc replacement to auto generate API documentation for Python libraries.
- pycco - The literate-programming-style documentation generator.
Downloader
Libraries for downloading.
- akshare - A financial data interface library, built for human beings!
- 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.
- forex-python - Foreign exchange rates, Bitcoin price index and currency conversion.
- 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.
- 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
Libraries for sending and parsing email.
- Mail Servers
- Clients
- Others
Enterprise Application Integrations
Platforms and tools for systems integrations in enterprise environments
- Zato - ESB, SOA, REST, APIs and Cloud Integrations in Python.
Environment Management
Libraries for Python version and virtual environment management.
- pyenv - Simple Python version management.
- 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 - 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.
- more-itertools - More routines for operating on iterables, beyond
itertools
. - returns - A set of type-safe monads, transformers, and composition utilities.
- 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 Declarative 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.
- DearPyGui - A Simple GPU accelerated Python GUI framework
GraphQL
Libraries for working with GraphQL.
- graphene - GraphQL framework for Python.
- tartiflette-aiohttp - An
aiohttp
-based wrapper for Tartiflette to expose GraphQL APIs over HTTP. - tartiflette-asgi - ASGI support for the Tartiflette GraphQL engine.
- tartiflette - SDL-first GraphQL engine implementation for Python 3.6+ and asyncio.
Game Development
Awesome game development libraries.
- Arcade - Arcade is a modern Python framework for crafting games with compelling graphics and sound.
- 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.
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.
- httpx - A next generation HTTP client for Python.
- 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.
- python-barcode - Create barcodes in Python with no extra dependencies.
- pygram - Instagram-like image filters.
- PyMatting - A library for alpha matting.
- python-qrcode - A pure Python QR Code generator.
- pywal - A tool that generates color schemes from images.
- pyvips - A fast image processing library with low memory needs.
- 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.
- CLPython - Implementation of the Python programming language written in Common Lisp.
- CPython - Default, most widely used implementation of the Python programming language written in C.
- Cython - Optimizing Static Compiler for Python.
- 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.
- 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.
- Airflow - Airflow is a platform to programmatically author, schedule and monitor workflows.
- 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.
- Prefect - A modern workflow orchestration framework that makes it easy to build, schedule and monitor robust data pipelines.
- 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.
Logging
Libraries for generating and working with logs.
- logbook - Logging replacement for Python.
- logging - (Python standard library) Logging facility for Python.
- loguru - Library which aims to bring enjoyable logging in Python.
- sentry-python - Sentry SDK for Python.
- structlog - Structured logging made easy.
Machine Learning
Libraries for Machine Learning. Also see awesome-machine-learning.
- gym - A toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms.
- 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.
- MindsDB - MindsDB is an open source AI layer for existing databases that allows you to effortlessly develop, train and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning models using standard queries.
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.
- magenta - A tool to generate music and art using artificial intelligence.
- 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 Modeling 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.
- 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.
- Stanza - The Stanford NLP Group's official Python library, supporting 60+ languages.
- Chinese
- funNLP - A collection of tools and datasets for Chinese NLP.
- 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.
Network Virtualization
Tools and libraries for Virtual Networking and SDN (Software Defined Networking).
- mininet - A popular network emulator and API written in Python.
- napalm - Cross-vendor API to manipulate network devices.
- pox - A Python-based SDN control applications, such as OpenFlow SDN controllers.
News Feed
Libraries for building user's activities.
- django-activity-stream - Generating generic activity streams from the actions on your site.
- Stream Framework - Building news feed and notification systems using Cassandra and Redis.
ORM
Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or data mapping techniques.
- Relational Databases
- Django Models - The Django ORM.
- SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper.
- dataset - Store Python dicts in a database - works with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
- orator - The Orator ORM provides a simple yet beautiful ActiveRecord implementation.
- orm - An async ORM.
- 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 package installer for Python.
- conda - Cross-platform, Python-agnostic binary package manager.
- poetry - Python dependency management and packaging made easy.
Package Repositories
Local PyPI repository server and proxies.
- 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).
- warehouse - Next generation Python Package Repository (PyPI).
Penetration Testing
Frameworks and tools for penetration testing.
- fsociety - A Penetration testing framework.
- setoolkit - A toolkit for social engineering.
- sqlmap - Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool.
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.
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.
Refactoring
Refactoring tools and libraries for Python
- Bicycle Repair Man - Bicycle Repair Man, a refactoring tool for Python.
- Bowler - Safe code refactoring for modern Python.
- Rope - Rope is a python refactoring library.
RESTful API
Libraries for building 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 - Browsable Web APIs for Flask.
- flask-restful - Quickly building REST APIs for Flask.
- 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.
- fastapi - A modern, fast, web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.
- hug - A Python 3 framework for cleanly exposing APIs.
- sandman2 - Automated REST APIs for existing database-driven systems.
- sanic - A Python 3.6+ web server and web framework that's written to go fast.
- vibora - Fast, efficient and asynchronous Web framework inspired by Flask.
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.
- RPyC (Remote Python Call) - A transparent and symmetric RPC library for Python
- 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.
- Karate Club - Unsupervised machine learning toolbox for graph structured data.
- NetworkX - A high-productivity software for complex networks.
- NIPY - A collection of neuroimaging toolkits.
- NumPy - A fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.
- ObsPy - A Python toolbox for seismology.
- Open Babel - A chemical toolbox designed to speak the many languages of chemical data.
- 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.
- SimPy - A process-based discrete-event simulation framework.
- statsmodels - Statistical modeling and econometrics in Python.
- SymPy - A Python library for symbolic mathematics.
- Zipline - A Pythonic algorithmic trading library.
Search
Libraries and software for indexing and performing search queries on data.
- django-haystack - Modular search for Django.
- elasticsearch-dsl-py - The official high-level Python client for Elasticsearch.
- elasticsearch-py - The official low-level Python client for Elasticsearch.
- 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.
- ultrajson - A fast JSON decoder and encoder written in C with Python bindings.
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.
Shell
Shells based on Python.
- xonsh - A Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell language and command prompt.
Specific Formats Processing
Libraries for parsing and manipulating specific text formats.
- General
- tablib - A module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML.
- Office
- docxtpl - Editing a docx document by jinja2 template
- 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.
- 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.
- lektor - An easy to use static CMS and blog engine.
- mkdocs - Markdown friendly documentation generator.
- makesite - Simple, lightweight, and magic-free static site/blog generator (< 130 lines).
- nikola - A static website and blog generator.
- pelican - Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax.
Tagging
Libraries for tagging items.
- django-taggit - Simple tagging for Django.
Task Queues
Libraries for working with task queues.
- celery - An asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.
- dramatiq - A fast and reliable background task processing library for Python 3.
- huey - Little multi-threaded task queue.
- mrq - A distributed worker task queue in Python using Redis & gevent.
- rq - Simple job queues for Python.
Template Engine
Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.
- Genshi - Python templating toolkit for generation of web-aware output.
- Jinja2 - A modern and designer friendly templating language.
- Mako - Hyperfast and lightweight templating for the Python platform.
Testing
Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.
- Testing Frameworks
- hypothesis - Hypothesis is an advanced Quickcheck style property based testing library.
- nose2 - The successor to
nose
, based on `unittest2. - pytest - A mature full-featured Python testing tool.
- Robot Framework - A generic test automation framework.
- unittest - (Python standard library) Unit testing framework.
- Test Runners
- 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.
- Schemathesis - A tool for automatic property-based testing of web applications built with Open API / Swagger specifications.
- Selenium - Python bindings for Selenium WebDriver.
- 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 - (Python standard library) A mocking and patching library.
- 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. Supports Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Peewee and etc.
- model_mommy - Creating random fixtures for testing in Django.
- Code Coverage
- coverage - Code coverage measurement.
- Fake Data
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
- 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.
- vidgear - Most Powerful multi-threaded Video Processing framework.
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.
- portia - Visual scraping for Scrapy.
- 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.
Web Frameworks
Traditional full stack web frameworks. Also see RESTful API.
- Synchronous
- Asynchronous
- Tornado - A web framework and asynchronous networking library.
WebSocket
Libraries for working with WebSocket.
- autobahn-python - WebSocket & WAMP for Python on Twisted and asyncio.
- channels - Developer-friendly asynchrony for Django.
- websockets - A library for building WebSocket servers and clients with a focus on correctness and simplicity.
WSGI Servers
WSGI-compatible web servers.
- bjoern - Asynchronous, very fast and written in C.
- gunicorn - Pre-forked, ported from Ruby's Unicorn project.
- 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.
Resources
Where to discover learning resources or new Python libraries.
Books
Websites
- Tutorials
- Libraries
- Others
Newsletters
Podcasts
- Django Chat
- Podcast.__init__
- Python Bytes
- Running in Production
- Talk Python To Me
- Test and Code
- The Real Python Podcast
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