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Awesome Python

A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome-php.

Environment Management

Libraries for Python version and environment management.

  • pew - A set of tools to manage multiple virtual environments.
  • 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.
  • 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.

Distribution

Libraries to create packaged executables for release distribution.

  • cx-Freeze - Freezes Python scripts (cross-platform)
  • dh-virtualenv - Build and distribute a virtualenv as a Debian package.
  • py2app - Freezes Python scripts (Mac OS X)
  • py2exe - Freezes Python scripts (Windows)
  • PyInstaller - A program that converts Python programs into stand-alone executables (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and AIX)

Build Tools

Compile software from source code.

  • BitBake - A make-like build tool with the special focus of distributions and packages for embedded Linux.
  • buildout - A build system for creating, assembling and deploying applications from multiple parts, some of which may be non-Python-based.
  • fabricate - A build tool that finds dependencies automatically for any language.
  • PlatformIO - A console tool to build code with different development platforms.
  • SCons - A software construction tool.

Interactive Interpreter

Interactive Python interpreters.

  • bpython – A fancy interface to the Python interpreter for Linux, BSD, OS X and Windows (with some work).
  • IPython - IPython provides a rich toolkit to help you make the most out of using Python interactively.

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 - An cross-platform, object-oriented path library (included in Python 3.4)
  • 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.
  • dateutil - Extensions to the standard Python datetime module.
  • delorean - A library for clearing up the inconvenient truths that arise dealing with datetimes in Python.
  • moment - A Python library for dealing with dates/times. Inspired by Moment.js.
  • pytz - World timezone definitions, modern and historical. Brings the Olson 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.
    • 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.
    • 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 - Library for parsing, formatting, storing and validating international phone numbers.
    • Pygments - A generic syntax highlighter.
    • pyparsing - A general purpose framework for generating parsers.
    • python-nameparser - A simple Python module for 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.
    • python-docx - Reads, queries and modifies Microsoft Word 2007/2008 docx files.
    • XlsxWriter - A Python module for creating Excel .xlsx files.
    • 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.
  • 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.

Natural Language Processing

Libraries for working with human languages.

  • genius - A Chinese segment base on Conditional Random Field.
  • jieba - Chinese Words Segementation Utilities.
  • loso - Another Chinese segmentation library.
  • NLTK - A leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data.
  • 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 natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Stands on the giant shoulders of NLTK and Pattern, and plays nicely with both.

Documentation

Libraries for generating project documentation.

  • 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.
  • reStructuredText - Markup Syntax and Parser Component of Docutils.
  • Sphinx - Python 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.
    • pyCLI - Command-line applications supporting standard command line parsing, logging, unit and functional testing.
  • Productivity Tools
    • cookiecutter - A command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates). E.g. Python package projects, jQuery plugin projects.
    • httpie - A command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement.
    • percol - Adds flavor of interactive selection to the traditional pipe concept on UNIX.
    • RainbowStream - Smart and nice Twitter client on terminal.

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.
  • 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.

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

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.

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

HTTP

Libraries for working with HTTP.

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

Database

Databases implemented in Python.

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

Database Drivers

Libraries for connecting and operating databases.

  • Relational Databases
    • 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 datamapping techniques.

  • Relational Databases
    • Django Models - A part of Django.
    • peewee - A small, expressive ORM.
    • PonyORM - ORM that provides a generator-oriented interface to SQL.
    • SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper.
  • NoSQL Databases
    • django-mongodb-engine - Django MongoDB Backend.
    • 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.
  • Flask - A microframework for Python.
  • 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.
  • Pyramid - A small, fast, down-to-earth, open source Python web framework.
  • TurboGears - The Web Framework that starts as a microframework and scales up to a fullstack 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+

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.
  • 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.

RESTful API

Libraries for developing RESTful APIs.

  • cornice - A REST framework for Pyramid.
  • django-formapi - Create JSON APIs with HMAC authentication and Django form-validation.
  • django-rest-framework - A powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.
  • django-tastypie - Creating delicious APIs for Django apps.
  • eve - REST API framework powered by Flask, MongoDB and good intentions.
  • falcon - A high-performance Python framework for building cloud APIs and web app backends.
  • flask-api-utils - Flask extension that takes care of API representation and authentication.
  • flask-api - An implementation of the same web browsable APIs that django-rest-framework provides.
  • flask-restful - An extension for Flask that adds support for quickly building REST APIs.
  • restless - Framework agnostic REST framework based on lessons learned from TastyPie.
  • sandman - Automated REST APIs for existing database-driven systems.
  • savory-pie - REST API building library (django, and others)

Authentication and OAuth

Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.

  • Authomatic - Simple but powerful framework agnostic authentication/authorization client package.
  • 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.
  • jose - JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) draft implementation, useful for stateful tokens.
  • OAuthLib - A generic, spec-compliant, 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.

Template Engine

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.

  • Chameleon - An HTML/XML template engine for Python. Modeled after ZPT, optimized for speed.
  • 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.
  • 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.

News Feed

Libraries for building user's activities.

  • django-activity-stream - Generate generic activity streams from the actions on your site.
  • Feedly - A library which allows you 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 backends for Django.
  • fanstatic - Packages, optimizes, and serves static file dependencies as Python packages.
  • fileconveyor - Monitors changes, processes, and transports assets to CDNs and file storage systems.
  • 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.
  • libsass-python - A Python binding of libsass, the reference implementation of SASS/SCSS.
  • 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 through the ORM.
  • 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 backend 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 woking with i18n.

  • Babel - An internationalization library for Python.

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.

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.

  • feedparser - Universal feed parser.
  • MechanicalSoup - A Python library for automating interaction with websites.
  • mechanize - Stateful programmatic web browsing.
  • portia - Visual scraping for Scrapy.
  • 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 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.
  • 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.

  • 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.

Tagging

Libraries for tagging items.

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.

  • Cactus – Static site generator for designers.
  • Hyde - Jinja2-based static web site generator.
  • Nikola - A static website and blog generator.
  • Pelican - Uses Markdown or ReST for content and Jinja 2 for themes. Supports DVCS, Disqus. AGPL.
  • Tags - The simplest static site generator.
  • Tinkerer - Tinkerer is a blogging engine/.static website generator powered by Sphinx.

Processes and Threads

Libraries for woking with processes or threads

  • envoy - Python Subprocesses for Humans™.
  • multiprocessing - (Python standard library) Process-based "threading" interface.
  • sarge - A wrapper for subprocess.
  • sh - A full-fledged subprocess replacement for Python.
  • threading - (Python standard library) Higher-level threading interface.

Concurrency and Networking

Libraries for concurrency and network programming.

  • asyncio - (Python standard library in Python 3.4+) Asynchronous I/O, event loop, coroutines and tasks.
  • Crossbar - Open-source Unified Application Router (Websocket & WAMP for Python on Autobahn).
  • diesel - Greenlet-based event I/O Framework for Python.
  • eventlet - Asynchronous framework with WSGI support.
  • gevent - A coroutine-based Python networking library that uses greenlet.
  • pulsar - Event-driven concurrent framework for Python.
  • pyzmq - A Python wrapper for the 0MQ message library.
  • Tornado - A Web framework and asynchronous networking library.
  • Twisted - An event-driven networking engine.
  • txZMQ - Twisted based wrapper for the 0MQ message library.

WebSocket

Libraries for woking with WebSocket.

WSGI Servers

WSGI-compatible web servers.

  • bjoern - Asynchronous, very fast and written in C.
  • fapws3 - Asynchronous (network side only), written in C.
  • gunicorn - Pre-forked, partly 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.
  • wsgiref - (Python standard library) WSGI reference implementation, single-threaded.

RPC Servers

RPC-compatible servers.

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.
  • PyCrypto - The Python Cryptography Toolkit.

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 log files.

  • logbook - Logging replacement for Python.
  • logging - (Python standard library) Logging facility for Python.
  • Raven - The Python client for Sentry.
  • Sentry - A realtime logging and aggregation server.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

  • Testing Frameworks
    • contexts - A modern and flexible BDD framework for Python 3.3 and above, inspired by C#'s Machine.Specifications.
    • 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.
    • unittest - (Python standard library) Unit testing framework.
  • Web Testing
    • locust - Scalable user load testing tool written in Python.
    • Selenium - Python bindings for Selenium WebDriver.
    • 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
  • Fake Data
    • faker - A Python package that generates fake data.
    • ForgeryPy - An easy to use forged data generator for Python. It's a port of forgery.
    • mixer - Generating fake data and creating random fixtures for testing in Django ORM, SQLAlchemy, Peewee, MongoEngine, Pony ORM and etc.
    • model_mommy - Creating random fixtures for testing in Django.
  • 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.

  • django-debug-toolbar - Display various debug information about the current request/response.
  • django-devserver - A drop-in replacement for Django's runserver.
  • ipdb - IPython-enabled pdb.
  • memory_profiler - Monitor Memory usage of Python code.
  • pdb - (Python standard library) The Python Debugger.
  • pudb – A full-screen, console-based Python debugger.
  • pyringe - Debugger capable of attaching to and injecting code into Python processes.
  • python-statsd - Python Client for the statsd server.
  • winpdb - A Platform Independent Python Debugger with GUI.

Science and Data Analysis

Libraries for scientific computing and data analyzing.

  • astropy - A community Python library for Astronomy.
  • 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 Mining - Business Intelligence (BI) in Python (Pandas web interface)
  • 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.
  • Sage - A mathematics software with a mission to be an open-source alternative to Magma, Maple, Mathematica, and Matlab.
  • 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's Data Visualization section.

  • bokeh - Interactive Web Plotting for Python.
  • d3py - A plottling library for Python, based on D3.js.
  • ggplot - Same API as ggplot2 for R.
  • Kartograph.py - Rendering beautiful SVG maps in Python.
  • matplotlib - A Python 2D plotting library.
  • plotly - Collaborative web plotting for Python and matplotlib.
  • pygal - A Python SVG Charts Creator.
  • pygraphviz - Python interface to Graphviz.
  • vincent - A Python to Vega translator.

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.

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

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • linkedin - A Python interface for LinkedIn.
  • praw - A Python wrapper for the Reddit API.
  • python-instagram - A Python Client for Instagram API.
  • soundcloud-python - A Python wrapper around the Soundcloud API.
  • twython - A Python wrapper for the Twitter API.
  • Wikipedia - A Pythonic wrapper for the Wikipedia API.

DevOps Tools

Software and libraries for DevOps.

  • Ansible - An IT automation tool.
  • cuisine - Chef-like functionality for Fabric.
  • Fabric - Tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks.
  • Fabtools - Tools for writing awesome Fabric files.
  • honcho - A Python port of Foreman, a tool for managing Procfile-based applications.
  • OpenStack - Open source software for building private and public clouds.
  • pexpect - A Python module for 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.
  • SaltStack - Infrastructure automation and management system.

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 Complier 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(32/64-bit) binaries for Python extension packages
  • spyder - IDE for the Python language with advanced editing, interactive testing, debugging and introspection features (also comes with Anaconda).

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.
  • scapy - A brilliant packet manipulation library.
  • wifi - A Python library and command line tool for working with WiFi on Linux.

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.

Algorithms and Design Patterns

Collections of algorithms and design patterns.

Editor Plugins

Plugins for editors and IDEs.

  • Vim
    • Jedi-vim - Vim bindings for the Jedi autocompletion 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
    • Anaconda - Anaconda turns your Sublime Text 3 in a full featured Python development IDE.
    • Djaneiro - Django support for Sublime Text.
    • SublimeJEDI - A Sublime Text plugin to the awesome autocomplete library Jedi.

Resources

Where to discover new Python libraries.

Websites

Weekly

  • Pycoder's Weekly - A free weekly newsletter, on Fridays, for those interested in Python development and various topics around Python.
  • Python Weekly - A free weekly newsletter featuring curated news, articles, new releases, jobs etc related to Python.

Twitter

Other Awesome Lists

List of lists.

Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome!