Awesome Python

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

• Awesome Python
  • Environment Management
  • Package Management
  • Package Repositories
  • Distribution
  • Build Tools
  • Interactive Interpreter
  • Files
  • Date and Time
  • Text Processing
  • Specific Formats Processing
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Documentation
  • Configuration
  • Command-line Tools
  • Downloader
  • Imagery
  • OCR
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Geolocation
  • HTTP
  • Database
  • Database Drivers
  • ORM
  • Web Frameworks
  • Permissions
  • CMS
  • E-commerce
  • RESTful API
  • Authentication
  • Template Engine
  • Queue
  • Search
  • News Feed
  • Asset Management
  • Caching
  • Email
  • Internationalization
  • URL Manipulation
  • HTML Manipulation
  • Web Crawling
  • Web Content Extracting
  • Forms
  • Data Validation
  • Anti-spam
  • Tagging
  • Admin Panels
  • Static Site Generator
  • Processes
  • Concurrency and Parallelism
  • Networking
  • WebSocket
  • WSGI Servers
  • RPC Servers
  • Cryptography
  • GUI
  • Game Development
  • Logging
  • Testing
  • Code Analysis and Linter
  • Debugging Tools
  • Science and Data Analysis
  • Data Visualization
  • Computer Vision
  • Machine Learning
  • Functional Programming
  • MapReduce
  • Third-party APIs
  • DevOps Tools
  • Job Scheduler
  • Foreign Function Interface
  • High Performance
  • Network Virtualization and SDN
  • Hardware
  • Compatibility
  • Miscellaneous
  • Algorithms and Design Patterns
  • Editor Plugins
  • IDEs
• Services
  • Continuous Integration
  • Code Quality
• Resources
  • Websites
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• Contributing

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Environment Management

Libraries for Python version and environment management.

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

Package Management

Libraries for package and dependency management.

• :octocat: pip - The Python package and dependency manager.
  • :octocat: Python Package Index
• :octocat: conda - Cross-platform, Python-agnostic binary package manager.
• :octocat: Curdling - Curdling is a command line tool for managing Python packages.
• :octocat: wheel - The new standard of Python distribution and are intended to replace eggs.

Package Repositories

Local PyPI repository server and proxies.

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

Distribution

Libraries to create packaged executables for release distribution.

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

Build Tools

Compile software from source code.

• :octocat: buildout - A build system for creating, assembling and deploying applications from multiple parts.
• :octocat: BitBake - A make-like build tool for embedded Linux.
• :octocat: fabricate - A build tool that finds dependencies automatically for any language.
• :octocat: PlatformIO - A console tool to build code with different development platforms.
• :octocat: PyBuilder - A continuous build tool written in pure Python.
• :octocat: SCons - A software construction tool.

Interactive Interpreter

Interactive Python interpreters (REPL).

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

Files

Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.

• :octocat: imghdr - (Python standard library) Determine the type of an image.
• :octocat: mimetypes - (Python standard library) Map filenames to MIME types.
• :octocat: path.py - A module wrapper for os.path.
• :octocat: pathlib - (Python standard library in Python 3.4+) An cross-platform, object-oriented path library.
• :octocat: python-magic - A Python interface to the libmagic file type identification library.
• :octocat: Unipath - An object-oriented approach to file/directory operations.
• :octocat: watchdog - API and shell utilities to monitor file system events.

Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

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

Text Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating plain texts.

• General
  • :octocat: chardet - Python 2/3 compatible character encoding detector.
  • :octocat: difflib - (Python standard library) Helpers for computing deltas.
  • :octocat: esmre - Regular expression accelerator.
  • :octocat: ftfy - Makes Unicode text less broken and more consistent automagically.
  • :octocat: fuzzywuzzy - Fuzzy String Matching.
  • :octocat: Levenshtein - Fast computation of Levenshtein distance and string similarity.
  • :octocat: pangu.py - Spacing texts for CJK and alphanumerics.
  • :octocat: pyfiglet - An implementation of figlet written in Python.
  • :octocat: shortuuid - A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs.
  • :octocat: unidecode - ASCII transliterations of Unicode text.
  • :octocat: uniout - Print readable chars instead of the escaped string.
  • :octocat: xpinyin - A library to translate Chinese hanzi (漢字) to pinyin (拼音).
• Slugify
  • :octocat: awesome-slugify - A Python slugify library that can preserve unicode.
  • :octocat: python-slugify - A Python slugify library that translates unicode to ASCII.
  • :octocat: unicode-slugify - A slugifier that generates unicode slugs with Django as a dependency.
• Parser
  • :octocat: phonenumbers - Parsing, formatting, storing and validating international phone numbers.
  • :octocat: PLY - Implementation of lex and yacc parsing tools for Python
  • :octocat: Pygments - A generic syntax highlighter.
  • :octocat: pyparsing - A general purpose framework for generating parsers.
  • :octocat: python-nameparser - Parsing human names into their individual components.
  • :octocat: python-user-agents - Browser user agent parser.
  • :octocat: sqlparse - A non-validating SQL parser.

Specific Formats Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating specific text formats.

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

Natural Language Processing

Libraries for working with human languages.

• :octocat: NLTK - A leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data.
• :octocat: jieba - Chinese Words Segmentation Utilities.
• :octocat: langid.py - Stand-alone language identification system.
• :octocat: Pattern - A web mining module for the Python.
• :octocat: SnowNLP - A library for processing Chinese text.
• :octocat: TextBlob - Providing a consistent API for diving into common NLP tasks.

Documentation

Libraries for generating project documentation.

• :octocat: Sphinx - Python Documentation generator.
  • :octocat: awesome-sphinxdoc
• :octocat: MkDocs - Markdown friendly documentation generator.
• :octocat: pdoc - Epydoc replacement to auto generate API documentation for Python libraries.
• :octocat: Pycco - The literate-programming-style documentation generator.

Configuration

Libraries for storing configuration options.

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

Command-line Tools

Libraries for building command-line application.

• Command-line Application Development
  • :octocat: cement - Providing a light-weight and fully featured foundation to build anything from single file scripts to complex and intricately designed applications.
  • :octocat: click - A package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way.
  • :octocat: cliff - A framework for creating command-line programs with multi-level commands.
  • :octocat: Clime – Clime lets you convert any module into a multi-command CLI program without any configuration.
  • :octocat: clint - Python Command-line Application Tools.
  • :octocat: colorama - Cross-platform colored terminal text.
  • :octocat: docopt - Pythonic command line arguments parser.
  • :octocat: Gooey - Turn command line programs into a full GUI application with one line
  • :octocat: pyCLI - Command-line applications supporting standard command line parsing, logging, unit and functional testing.
  • :octocat: python-prompt-toolkit - A Library for building powerful interactive command lines.
• Productivity Tools
  • :octocat: bashplotlib - Making basic plots in the terminal. It's a quick way to visualize data without GUI.
  • :octocat: caniusepython3 - Determine what projects are blocking you from porting to Python 3.
  • :octocat: cookiecutter - A command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates). E.g. Python package projects, jQuery plugin projects.
  • :octocat: doitlive - A tool for live presentations in the terminal.
  • :octocat: httpie - A command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement.
  • :octocat: PathPicker - Select files out of bash output.
  • :octocat: percol - Adds flavor of interactive selection to the traditional pipe concept on UNIX.
  • :octocat: RainbowStream - Smart and nice Twitter client on terminal.
  • :octocat: thefuck - Correcting your previous console command.

Downloader

Libraries for downloading.

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

Imagery

Libraries for manipulating images.

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

OCR

Libraries for Optical Character Recognition.

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

Audio

Libraries for manipulating audio.

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

Video

Libraries for manipulating video and GIFs.

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

Geolocation

Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

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

HTTP

Libraries for working with HTTP.

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

Database

Databases implemented in Python.

• :octocat: pickleDB - A simple and lightweight key-value store for Python.
• :octocat: PipelineDB - The Streaming SQL Database.
• :octocat: TinyDB - A tiny, document-oriented database.
• :octocat: ZODB - A native object database for Python. A key-value and object graph database.

Database Drivers

Libraries for connecting and operating databases.

• Relational Databases
  • :octocat: apsw - Another Python SQLite wrapper.
  • :octocat: dataset - Store Python dicts in a database - works with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
  • :octocat: mysql-connector-python - A pure Python MySQL driver from Oracle.
  • :octocat: mysql-python - The MySQL database connector for Python.
  • :octocat: mysqlclient - mysql-python fork supporting Python 3.
  • :octocat: oursql - A better MySQL connector with support for native prepared statements and BLOBs.
  • :octocat: psycopg2 - The most popular PostgreSQL adapter for Python.
  • :octocat: PyMySQL - Pure Python MySQL driver compatible to mysql-python.
  • :octocat: queries - A wrapper of the psycopg2 library for interacting with PostgreSQL.
  • :octocat: txpostgres - Twisted based asynchronous driver for PostgreSQL.
• NoSQL Databases
  • :octocat: cassandra-python-driver - Python driver for Cassandra.
  • :octocat: HappyBase - A developer-friendly library for Apache HBase.
  • :octocat: Plyvel - A fast and feature-rich Python interface to LevelDB.
  • :octocat: py2neo - Python wrapper client for Neo4j's restful interface.
  • :octocat: pycassa - Python Thrift driver for Cassandra.
  • :octocat: PyMongo - The official Python client for MongoDB.
  • :octocat: redis-py - The Redis Python Client.
  • :octocat: telephus - Twisted based client for Cassandra.
  • :octocat: txRedis - Twisted based client for Redis.

ORM

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

• Relational Databases
  • :octocat: Django Models - A part of Django.
  • :octocat: SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper.
    • :octocat: awesome-sqlalchemy
  • :octocat: peewee - A small, expressive ORM.
  • :octocat: PonyORM - ORM that provides a generator-oriented interface to SQL.
• NoSQL Databases
  • :octocat: django-mongodb-engine - Django MongoDB Backend.
  • :octocat: PynamoDB - A Pythonic interface for Amazon DynamoDB.
  • :octocat: flywheel - Object mapper for Amazon DynamoDB.
  • :octocat: MongoEngine - A Python Object-Document-Mapper for working with MongoDB.
  • :octocat: hot-redis - Rich Python data types for Redis.
  • :octocat: redisco - A Python Library for Simple Models and Containers Persisted in Redis.
• Others
  • :octocat: butterdb - A Python ORM for Google Drive Spreadsheets.

Web Frameworks

Full stack web frameworks.

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

• :octocat: Carteblanche - Module to align code with thoughts of users and designers. Also magically handles navigation and permissions.
• :octocat: django-guardian - Implementation of per object permissions for Django 1.2+
• :octocat: django-rules - A tiny but powerful app providing object-level permissions to Django, without requiring a database.

CMS

Content Management Systems.

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

E-commerce

Frameworks and libraries for e-commerce and payments.

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

RESTful API

Libraries for developing RESTful APIs.

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

Authentication

Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.

• OAuth
  • :octocat: Authomatic - Simple but powerful framework agnostic authentication/authorization client.
  • :octocat: django-allauth - Authentication app for Django that "just works."
  • :octocat: django-oauth-toolkit - OAuth2 goodies for the Djangonauts.
  • :octocat: django-oauth2-provider - Providing OAuth2 access to Django app.
  • :octocat: Flask-OAuthlib - OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0 implementation of client and provider for Flask.
  • :octocat: OAuthLib - A generic and thorough implementation of the OAuth request-signing logic.
  • :octocat: python-oauth2 - A fully tested, abstract interface to creating OAuth clients and servers.
  • :octocat: python-social-auth - An easy-to-setup social authentication mechanism.
  • :octocat: rauth - A Python library for OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0, and Ofly.
  • :octocat: sanction - A dead simple OAuth2 client implementation.
• Others
  • :octocat: jose - JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption draft implementation.
  • :octocat: PyJWT - Implementation of the JSON Web Token draft 01.
  • :octocat: python-jws - Implementation of JSON Web Signatures draft 02.
  • :octocat: python-jwt - Module for generating and verifying JSON Web Tokens.

Template Engine

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.

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

Queue

Libraries for working with event and task queues.

• :octocat: celery - An asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.
• :octocat: huey - Little multi-threaded task queue.
• :octocat: mrq - Mr. Queue - A distributed worker task queue in Python using Redis & gevent.
• :octocat: rq - Simple job queues for Python.
• :octocat: simpleq - A simple, infinitely scalable, Amazon SQS based queue.

Search

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

• :octocat: django-haystack - Modular search for Django.
• :octocat: elasticsearch-py - The official low-level Python client for Elasticsearch.
• :octocat: elasticsearch-dsl-py - The official high-level Python client for Elasticsearch.
• :octocat: solrpy - A Python client for solr.
• :octocat: Whoosh - A fast, pure Python search engine library.

News Feed

Libraries for building user's activities.

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

Asset Management

Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.

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

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

• :octocat: Beaker - A library for caching and sessions for use with web applications and stand-alone Python scripts and applications.
• :octocat: django-cache-machine - Automatic caching and invalidation for Django models.
• :octocat: django-cacheops - A slick ORM cache with automatic granular event-driven invalidation.
• :octocat: django-viewlet - Render template parts with extended cache control.
• :octocat: dogpile.cache - dogpile.cache is next generation replacement for Beaker made by same authors.
• :octocat: HermesCache - Python caching library with tag-based invalidation and dogpile effect prevention.
• :octocat: johnny-cache - A caching framework for django applications.
• :octocat: pylibmc - A Python wrapper around the libmemcached interface.

Email

Libraries for sending and parsing email.

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

Internationalization

Libraries for working with i18n.

• :octocat: Babel - An internationalization library for Python.
• :octocat: Korean - A library for Korean morphology.

URL Manipulation

Libraries for parsing URLs.

• :octocat: furl - A small Python library that makes manipulating URLs simple.
• :octocat: purl - A simple, immutable URL class with a clean API for interrogation and manipulation.
• :octocat: pyshorteners - A pure Python URL shortening lib.
• :octocat: short_url - Python implementation for generating Tiny URL and bit.ly-like URLs.
• :octocat: webargs - A friendly library for parsing HTTP request arguments, with built-in support for popular web frameworks, including Flask, Django, Bottle, Tornado, and Pyramid.

HTML Manipulation

Libraries for working with HTML and XML.

• :octocat: BeautifulSoup - Providing Pythonic idioms for iterating, searching, and modifying HTML or XML.
• :octocat: bleach - A whitelist-based HTML sanitization and text linkification library.
• :octocat: cssutils - A CSS library for Python.
• :octocat: html5lib - A standards-compliant library for parsing and serializing HTML documents and fragments.
• :octocat: lxml - A very fast, easy-to-use and versatile library for handling HTML and XML.
• :octocat: MarkupSafe - Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python.
• :octocat: pyquery - A jQuery-like library for parsing HTML.
• :octocat: untangle - Converts XML documents to Python objects for easy access.
• :octocat: xhtml2pdf - HTML/CSS to PDF converter.
• :octocat: xmltodict - Working with XML feel like you are working with JSON.

Web Crawling

Libraries for scraping websites.

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

Web Content Extracting

Libraries for extracting web contents.

• :octocat: Haul - An Extensible Image Crawler.
• :octocat: html2text - Convert HTML to Markdown-formatted text.
• :octocat: lassie - Web Content Retrieval for Humans.
• :octocat: micawber - A small library for extracting rich content from URLs.
• :octocat: newspaper - News extraction, article extraction and content curation in Python.
• :octocat: opengraph - A Python module to parse the Open Graph Protocol
• :octocat: python-goose - HTML Content/Article Extractor.
• :octocat: python-readability - Fast Python port of arc90's readability tool.
• :octocat: sanitize - Bringing sanity to world of messed-up data.
• :octocat: sumy - A module for automatic summarization of text documents and HTML pages.
• :octocat: textract - Extract text from any document, Word, PowerPoint, PDFs, etc.

Forms

Libraries for working with forms.

• :octocat: Deform - Python HTML form generation library influenced by the formish form generation library.
• :octocat: django-bootstrap3 - Bootstrap 3 integration with Django.
• :octocat: django-crispy-forms - A Django app which lets you create beautiful forms in a very elegant and DRY way.
• :octocat: django-remote-forms - A platform independent Django form serializer.
• :octocat: WTForms-JSON - A WTForms extension for JSON data handling.
• :octocat: WTForms - A flexible forms validation and rendering library.

Data Validation

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

• :octocat: Cerberus - A mappings-validator with a variety of rules, normalization-features and simple customization that uses a pythonic schema-definition.
• :octocat: colander - A system for validating and deserializing data obtained via XML, JSON, an HTML form post or any other equally simple data serialization.
• :octocat: kmatch - A language for matching/validating/filtering Python dictionaries.
• :octocat: schema - A library for validating Python data structures.
• :octocat: Schematics - Data Structure Validation.
• :octocat: valideer - Lightweight extensible data validation and adaptation library.
• :octocat: 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.

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

Tagging

Libraries for tagging items.

• :octocat: django-taggit - Simple tagging for Django.

Admin Panels

Libraries for administrative interfaces.

• :octocat: Ajenti - The admin panel your servers deserve.
• :octocat: django-suit - Alternative Django Admin-Interface (free only for Non-commercial use).
• :octocat: django-xadmin - Drop-in replacement of Django admin comes with lots of goodies.
• :octocat: flask-admin - Simple and extensible administrative interface framework for Flask.
• :octocat: flower - Real-time monitor and web admin for Celery.
• :octocat: Grappelli – A jazzy skin for the Django Admin-Interface.
• :octocat: Wooey - A Django app which creates automatic web UIs for Python scripts.

Static Site Generator

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

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

Processes

Libraries for starting and communicating with OS processes.

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

Concurrency and Parallelism

Libraries for concurrent and parallel execution.

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

Networking

Libraries for networking programming.

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

WebSocket

Libraries for working with WebSocket.

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

WSGI Servers

WSGI-compatible web servers.

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

RPC Servers

RPC-compatible servers.

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

Cryptography

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

GUI

Libraries for working with graphical user interface applications.

• :octocat: curses - Built-in wrapper for ncurses used to create terminal GUI applications.
• :octocat: enaml - Creating beautiful user-interfaces with Declaratic Syntax like QML.
• :octocat: kivy - A library for creating NUI applications, running on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android and iOS.
• :octocat: pyglet - A cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python.
• :octocat: PyQt - Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework, with support for both Qt v4 and Qt v5 frameworks.
• :octocat: PySide - Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework, supporting the Qt v4 framework.
• :octocat: Tkinter - Tkinter is Python's de-facto standard GUI package.
• :octocat: Toga - A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit.
• :octocat: urwid - A library for creating terminal GUI applications with strong support for widgets, events, rich colors, etc.
• :octocat: wxPython - A blending of the wxWidgets C++ class library with the Python.

Game Development

Awesome game development libraries.

• :octocat: Cocos2d - cocos2d is a framework for building 2D games, demos, and other graphical/interactive applications. It is based on pyglet.
• :octocat: Panda3D - 3D game engine developed by Disney and maintained by Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center. Written in C++, completely wrapped in Python.
• :octocat: Pygame - Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing games.
• :octocat: PyOgre - Python bindings for the Ogre 3D render engine, can be used for games, simulations, anything 3D.
• :octocat: PyOpenGL - Python ctypes bindings for OpenGL and it's related APIs.
• :octocat: PySDL2 - A ctypes based wrapper for the SDL2 library.
• :octocat: PySFML - Python bindings for SFML
• :octocat: RenPy - A Visual Novel engine.

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with logs.

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

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• Testing Frameworks
  • :octocat: unittest - (Python standard library) Unit testing framework.
  • :octocat: nose - nose extends unittest.
  • :octocat: contexts - A BDD framework for Python 3.3+. Inspired by C#'s Machine.Specifications.
  • :octocat: hypothesis - Hypothesis is an advanced Quickcheck style property based testing library.
  • :octocat: mamba - The definitive testing tool for Python. Born under the banner of BDD.
  • :octocat: PyAutoGUI - PyAutoGUI is a cross-platform GUI automation Python module for human beings.
  • :octocat: pyshould - Should style asserts based on PyHamcrest.
  • :octocat: pytest - A mature full-featured Python testing tool.
  • :octocat: pyvows - BDD style testing for Python. Inspired by Vows.js.
  • :octocat: Robot Framework - A generic test automation framework.
• Web Testing
  • :octocat: Selenium - Python bindings for Selenium WebDriver.
  • :octocat: locust - Scalable user load testing tool written in Python.
  • :octocat: sixpack - A language-agnostic A/B Testing framework.
  • :octocat: splinter - Open source tool for testing web applications.
• Mock
  • :octocat: mock - (Python standard library) A mocking and patching library.
  • :octocat: doublex - Powerful test doubles framework for Python.
  • :octocat: freezegun - Travel through time by mocking the datetime module.
  • :octocat: httmock - A mocking library for requests for Python 2.6+ and 3.2+.
  • :octocat: httpretty - HTTP request mock tool for Python.
  • :octocat: responses - A utility library for mocking out the requests Python library.
  • :octocat: VCR.py - Record and replay HTTP interactions on your tests.
• Object Factories
  • :octocat: factory_boy - A test fixtures replacement for Python.
  • :octocat: mixer - Another fixtures replacement. Supported Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Peewee and etc.
  • :octocat: model_mommy - Creating random fixtures for testing in Django.
• Code Coverage
  • :octocat: coverage - Code coverage measurement.
• Fake Data
  • :octocat: faker - A Python package that generates fake data.
  • :octocat: fake2db - Fake database generator.
  • :octocat: radar - Generate random datetime / time.
• Error Handler
  • :octocat: 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
  • :octocat: code2flow - Turn your Python and JavaScript code into DOT flowcharts.
  • :octocat: pycallgraph - A library that visualises the flow (call graph) of your Python application.
  • :octocat: pysonar2 - A type inferencer and indexer for Python.
• Linter
  • :octocat: Flake8 - The modular source code checker: pep8, pyflakes and co.
  • :octocat: Pylint - A source code analyzer.
  • :octocat: pylama - Code audit tool for Python and JavaScript.

Debugging Tools

Libraries for debugging code.

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

Science and Data Analysis

Libraries for scientific computing and data analyzing.

• :octocat: astropy - A community Python library for Astronomy.
• :octocat: bcbio-nextgen - A toolkit providing best-practice pipelines for fully automated high throughput sequencing analysis.
• :octocat: bccb - Collection of useful code related to biological analysis.
• :octocat: Biopython - Biopython is a set of freely available tools for biological computation.
• :octocat: blaze - NumPy and Pandas interface to Big Data.
• :octocat: cclib - A library for parsing and interpreting the results of computational chemistry packages.
• :octocat: NetworkX - A high-productivity software for complex networks.
• :octocat: Numba - Python JIT (just in time) complier to LLVM aimed at scientific Python by the developers of Cython and NumPy.
• :octocat: NumPy - A fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.
• :octocat: Open Babel - A chemical toolbox designed to speak the many languages of chemical data.
• :octocat: Open Mining - Business Intelligence (BI) in Python (Pandas web interface)
• :octocat: orange - Data mining, data visualization, analysis and machine learning through visual programming or Python scripting.
• :octocat: Pandas - A library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools.
• :octocat: PyDy - Short for Python Dynamics, used to assist with workflow in the modeling of dynamic motion based around NumPy, SciPy, IPython, and matplotlib.
• :octocat: PyMC - Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.
• :octocat: RDKit - Cheminformatics and Machine Learning Software.
• :octocat: SciPy - A Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.
• :octocat: statsmodels - Statistical modeling and econometrics in Python.
• :octocat: SymPy - A Python library for symbolic mathematics.
• :octocat: zipline - A Pythonic algorithmic trading library.

Data Visualization

Libraries for visualizing data. See: awesome-javascript.

• :octocat: matplotlib - A Python 2D plotting library.
• :octocat: bokeh - Interactive Web Plotting for Python.
• :octocat: ggplot - Same API as ggplot2 for R.
• :octocat: plotly - Collaborative web plotting for Python and matplotlib.
• :octocat: pygal - A Python SVG Charts Creator.
• :octocat: pygraphviz - Python interface to Graphviz.
• :octocat: PyQtGraph - Interactive and realtime 2D/3D/Image plotting and science/engineering widgets.
• :octocat: SnakeViz - A browser based graphical viewer for the output of Python's cProfile module.
• :octocat: vincent - A Python to Vega translator.
• :octocat: VisPy - High-performance scientific visualization based on OpenGL.

Computer Vision

Libraries for computer vision.

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

Machine Learning

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

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

MapReduce

Framworks and libraries for MapReduce.

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

Functional Programming

Functional Programming with Python.

• :octocat: CyToolz - Cython implementation of Toolz: High performance functional utilities.
• :octocat: fn.py - Functional programming in Python: implementation of missing features to enjoy FP.
• :octocat: funcy - A fancy and practical functional tools.
• :octocat: 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.

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

DevOps Tools

Software and libraries for DevOps.

• :octocat: Ansible - A radically simple IT automation platform.
• :octocat: SaltStack - Infrastructure automation and management system.
• :octocat: Fabric - A simple, Pythonic tool for remote execution and deployment.
• :octocat: cuisine - Chef-like functionality for Fabric.
• :octocat: Docker Compose - Fast, isolated development environments using Docker.
• :octocat: Fabtools - Tools for writing awesome Fabric files.
• :octocat: gitapi - Pure-Python API for git.
• :octocat: gunnery - Multipurpose task execution tool for distributed systems with web-based interface.
• :octocat: hgapi - Pure-Python API for Mercurial.
• :octocat: honcho - A Python port of Foreman, a tool for managing Procfile-based applications.
• :octocat: OpenStack - Open source software for building private and public clouds.
• :octocat: pexpect - Controlling interactive programs in a pseudo-terminal like GNU expect.
• :octocat: provy - An easy-to-use provisioning system in Python.
• :octocat: psutil - A cross-platform process and system utilities module.
• :octocat: supervisor - Supervisor process control system for UNIX.

Job Scheduler

Libraries for scheduling jobs.

• :octocat: APScheduler - A light but powerful in-process task scheduler that lets you schedule functions.
• :octocat: django-schedule - A calendaring app for Django.
• :octocat: doit - A task runner/build tool.
• :octocat: Joblib - A set of tools to provide lightweight pipelining in Python.
• :octocat: Plan - Writing crontab file in Python like a charm.
• :octocat: schedule - Python job scheduling for humans.
• :octocat: Spiff - A powerful workflow engine implemented in pure Python.
• :octocat: TaskFlow - A Python library that helps to make task execution easy, consistent and reliable.

Foreign Function Interface

Libraries for providing foreign function interface.

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

High Performance

Libraries for making Python faster.

• :octocat: Cython - Optimizing Static Compiler for Python. Uses type mixins to compile Python into C or C++ modules resulting in large performance gains.
• :octocat: 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.
• :octocat: Pyston - A Python implementation built using LLVM and modern JIT techniques with the goal of achieving good performance.
• :octocat: Stackless Python - An enhanced version of the Python.

Microsoft Windows

Python programming on Microsoft Windows.

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

Network Virtualization and SDN

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

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

Hardware

Libraries for programming with hardware.

• :octocat: ino - Command line toolkit for working with Arduino.
• :octocat: Pyro - Python Robotics.
• :octocat: PyUserInput - A module for cross-platform control of the mouse and keyboard.
• :octocat: scapy - A brilliant packet manipulation library.
• :octocat: wifi - A Python library and command line tool for working with WiFi on Linux.

Compatibility

Libraries for migrating from Python 2 to 3.

• :octocat: Python-Future - The missing compatibility layer between Python 2 and Python 3.
• :octocat: Python-Modernize - Modernizes Python code for eventual Python 3 migration.
• :octocat: Six - Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities.

Miscellaneous

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

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

Algorithms and Design Patterns

Python implementation of algorithms and design patterns.

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

Editor Plugins

Plugins for editors and IDEs.

• Emacs
  • :octocat: Elpy - Emacs Python Development Environment.
• Sublime Text
  • :octocat: SublimeJEDI - A Sublime Text plugin to the awesome auto-complete library Jedi.
  • :octocat: Anaconda - Anaconda turns your Sublime Text 3 in a full featured Python development IDE.
• Vim
  • :octocat: YouCompleteMe - Includes Jedi-based completion engine for Python.
  • :octocat: Jedi-vim - Vim bindings for the Jedi auto-completion library for Python.
  • :octocat: Python-mode - An all in one plugin for turning Vim into a Python IDE.
• Visual Studio
  • :octocat: PTVS - Python Tools for Visual Studio.

IDEs

Popular Python IDEs.

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

Services

Online tools and APIs to simplify development.

Continuous Integration

See: awesome-CIandCD.

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

Code Quality

• :octocat: Landscape - An early warning system for your Python codebase.
• :octocat: QuantifiedCode - A data-driven, automated, continuous code review tool.

Resources

Where to discover new Python libraries.

Websites

• :octocat: r/Python
• :octocat: CoolGithubProjects
• :octocat: Django Packages
• :octocat: Full Stack Python
• :octocat: Python 3 Wall of Superpowers
• :octocat: Python Hackers
• :octocat: Python ZEEF
• :octocat: Trending Python repositories on GitHub today

Weekly

• :octocat: Import Python Newsletter
• :octocat: Pycoder's Weekly
• :octocat: Python Weekly

Twitter

• :octocat: @codetengu
• :octocat: @getpy
• :octocat: @planetpython
• :octocat: @pycoders
• :octocat: @pypi
• :octocat: @pythontrending
• :octocat: @PythonWeekly

Other Awesome Lists

List of lists.

• Python
  • :octocat: pycrumbs
  • :octocat: python-github-projects
  • :octocat: python_reference
  • :octocat: pythonidae
• Monty
  • :octocat: awesome
  • :octocat: lists

Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome!