fucking-awesome-python/README.md

# Fucking Awesome Python

A curated list with Github stars and forks stats based on awesome [awesome-python](https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python)

Inspired by [fucking-awesome-go](https://github.com/hvnsweeting/fucking-awesome-go).

- [Awesome Python](#awesome-python)
    - [Admin Panels](#admin-panels)
    - [Algorithms and Design Patterns](#algorithms-and-design-patterns)
    - [ASGI Servers](#asgi-servers)
    - [Asynchronous Programming](#asynchronous-programming)
    - [Audio](#audio)
    - [Authentication](#authentication)
    - [Build Tools](#build-tools)
    - [Built-in Classes Enhancement](#built-in-classes-enhancement)
    - [Caching](#caching)
    - [ChatOps Tools](#chatops-tools)
    - [CMS](#cms)
    - [Code Analysis](#code-analysis)
    - [Command-line Interface Development](#command-line-interface-development)
    - [Command-line Tools](#command-line-tools)
    - [Compatibility](#compatibility)
    - [Computer Vision](#computer-vision)
    - [Concurrency and Parallelism](#concurrency-and-parallelism)
    - [Configuration](#configuration)
    - [Cryptography](#cryptography)
    - [Data Analysis](#data-analysis)
    - [Data Validation](#data-validation)
    - [Data Visualization](#data-visualization)
    - [Database Drivers](#database-drivers)
    - [Database](#database)
    - [Date and Time](#date-and-time)
    - [Debugging Tools](#debugging-tools)
    - [Deep Learning](#deep-learning)
    - [DevOps Tools](#devops-tools)
    - [Distributed Computing](#distributed-computing)
    - [Distribution](#distribution)
    - [Documentation](#documentation)
    - [Downloader](#downloader)
    - [E-commerce](#e-commerce)
    - [Editor Plugins and IDEs](#editor-plugins-and-ides)
    - [Email](#email)
    - [Environment Management](#environment-management)
    - [Files](#files)
    - [Foreign Function Interface](#foreign-function-interface)
    - [Forms](#forms)
    - [Functional Programming](#functional-programming)
    - [Game Development](#game-development)
    - [Geolocation](#geolocation)
    - [GUI Development](#gui-development)
    - [Hardware](#hardware)
    - [HTML Manipulation](#html-manipulation)
    - [HTTP Clients](#http-clients)
    - [Image Processing](#image-processing)
    - [Implementations](#implementations)
    - [Interactive Interpreter](#interactive-interpreter)
    - [Internationalization](#internationalization)
    - [Job Scheduler](#job-scheduler)
    - [Logging](#logging)
    - [Machine Learning](#machine-learning)
    - [Miscellaneous](#miscellaneous)
    - [Natural Language Processing](#natural-language-processing)
    - [Network Virtualization](#network-virtualization)
    - [News Feed](#news-feed)
    - [ORM](#orm)
    - [Package Management](#package-management)
    - [Package Repositories](#package-repositories)
    - [Permissions](#permissions)
    - [Processes](#processes)
    - [Recommender Systems](#recommender-systems)
    - [Refactoring](#refactoring)
    - [RESTful API](#restful-api)
    - [Robotics](#robotics)
    - [RPC Servers](#rpc-servers)
    - [Science](#science)
    - [Search](#search)
    - [Serialization](#serialization)
    - [Serverless Frameworks](#serverless-frameworks)
    - [Specific Formats Processing](#specific-formats-processing)
    - [Static Site Generator](#static-site-generator)
    - [Tagging](#tagging)
    - [Task Queues](#task-queues)
    - [Template Engine](#template-engine)
    - [Testing](#testing)
    - [Text Processing](#text-processing)
    - [Third-party APIs](#third-party-apis)
    - [URL Manipulation](#url-manipulation)
    - [Video](#video)
    - [Web Asset Management](#web-asset-management)
    - [Web Content Extracting](#web-content-extracting)
    - [Web Crawling](#web-crawling)
    - [Web Frameworks](#web-frameworks)
    - [WebSocket](#websocket)
    - [WSGI Servers](#wsgi-servers)
- [Resources](#resources)
    - [Books](#books)
    - [Websites](#websites)
    - [Newsletters](#newsletters)
    - [Podcasts](#podcasts)
- [Contributing](#contributing)

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## Admin Panels

*Libraries for administrative interfaces.*

* [:octocat: ajenti](https://github.com/ajenti/ajenti) - :star: 6043 :fork_and_knife: 740 - The admin panel your servers deserve.
* [:earth_americas: django-grappelli](https://grappelliproject.com/) - A jazzy skin for the Django Admin-Interface.
* [:octocat: django-jet](https://github.com/geex-arts/django-jet) - :star: 2773 :fork_and_knife: 599 - Modern responsive template for the Django admin interface with improved functionality.
* [:earth_americas: django-suit](https://djangosuit.com/) - Alternative Django Admin-Interface (free only for Non-commercial use).
* [:octocat: django-xadmin](https://github.com/sshwsfc/xadmin) - :star: 4404 :fork_and_knife: 1353 - Drop-in replacement of Django admin comes with lots of goodies.
* [:octocat: jet-bridge](https://github.com/jet-admin/jet-bridge) - :star: 730 :fork_and_knife: 65 - Admin panel framework for any application with nice UI (ex Jet Django)
* [:octocat: flask-admin](https://github.com/flask-admin/flask-admin) - :star: 4293 :fork_and_knife: 1225 - Simple and extensible administrative interface framework for Flask.
* [:octocat: flower](https://github.com/mher/flower) - :star: 4299 :fork_and_knife: 747 - Real-time monitor and web admin for Celery.
* [:octocat: wooey](https://github.com/wooey/wooey) - :star: 1451 :fork_and_knife: 162 - A Django app which creates automatic web UIs for Python scripts.

## Algorithms and Design Patterns

*Python implementation of data structures, algorithms and design patterns.*

* Algorithms
    * [:octocat: TheAlgorithms](https://github.com/TheAlgorithms/Python) - :star: 77677 :fork_and_knife: 23370 - All Algorithms implemented in Python.
    * [:octocat: algorithms](https://github.com/keon/algorithms) - :star: 17473 :fork_and_knife: 3531 - Minimal examples of data structures and algorithms.
    * [:octocat: python-ds](https://github.com/prabhupant/python-ds) - :star: 977 :fork_and_knife: 324 - A collection of data structure and algorithms for coding interviews.
    * [:octocat: sortedcontainers](https://github.com/grantjenks/python-sortedcontainers) - :star: 1760 :fork_and_knife: 111 - Fast and pure-Python implementation of sorted collections.
* Design Patterns
    * [:octocat: PyPattyrn](https://github.com/tylerlaberge/PyPattyrn) - :star: 1000 :fork_and_knife: 95 - A simple yet effective library for implementing common design patterns.
    * [:octocat: python-patterns](https://github.com/faif/python-patterns) - :star: 25069 :fork_and_knife: 5300 - A collection of design patterns in Python.
    * [:octocat: transitions](https://github.com/pytransitions/transitions) - :star: 3038 :fork_and_knife: 380 - A lightweight, object-oriented finite state machine implementation.

## ASGI Servers

*[ASGI](https://asgi.readthedocs.io/en/latest/)-compatible web servers.*

* [:octocat: uvicorn](https://github.com/encode/uvicorn) - :star: 2733 :fork_and_knife: 199 - A lightning-fast ASGI server implementation, using uvloop and httptools.
* [:octocat: daphne](https://github.com/django/daphne) - :star: 1291 :fork_and_knife: 166 - A HTTP, HTTP2 and WebSocket protocol server for ASGI and ASGI-HTTP.

## Asynchronous Programming

* [:earth_americas: asyncio](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html) - (Python standard library) Asynchronous I/O, event loop, coroutines and tasks.
    - [awesome-asyncio](https://github.com/timofurrer/awesome-asyncio)
* [:octocat: uvloop](https://github.com/MagicStack/uvloop) - :star: 6984 :fork_and_knife: 410 - Ultra fast asyncio event loop.
* [:earth_americas: Twisted](https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/) - An event-driven networking engine.

## Audio

*Libraries for manipulating audio and its metadata.*

* Audio
    * [:octocat: audioread](https://github.com/beetbox/audioread) - :star: 330 :fork_and_knife: 78 - Cross-library (GStreamer + Core Audio + MAD + FFmpeg) audio decoding.
    * [:octocat: dejavu](https://github.com/worldveil/dejavu) - :star: 5017 :fork_and_knife: 1170 - Audio fingerprinting and recognition.
    * [:octocat: matchering](https://github.com/sergree/matchering) - :star: 216 :fork_and_knife: 38 - A library for automated reference audio mastering.
    * [:earth_americas: mingus](http://bspaans.github.io/python-mingus/) - An advanced music theory and notation package with MIDI file and playback support.
    * [:octocat: pyAudioAnalysis](https://github.com/tyiannak/pyAudioAnalysis) - :star: 3242 :fork_and_knife: 879 - Audio feature extraction, classification, segmentation and applications.
    * [:octocat: pydub](https://github.com/jiaaro/pydub) - :star: 4537 :fork_and_knife: 632 - Manipulate audio with a simple and easy high level interface.
    * [:octocat: TimeSide](https://github.com/Parisson/TimeSide) - :star: 288 :fork_and_knife: 48 - Open web audio processing framework.
* Metadata
    * [:octocat: beets](https://github.com/beetbox/beets) - :star: 9437 :fork_and_knife: 1595 - A music library manager and [MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/) tagger.
    * [:octocat: eyeD3](https://github.com/nicfit/eyeD3) - :star: 233 :fork_and_knife: 38 - A tool for working with audio files, specifically MP3 files containing ID3 metadata.
    * [:octocat: mutagen](https://github.com/quodlibet/mutagen) - :star: 620 :fork_and_knife: 90 - A Python module to handle audio metadata.
    * [:octocat: tinytag](https://github.com/devsnd/tinytag) - :star: 397 :fork_and_knife: 77 - A library for reading music meta data of MP3, OGG, FLAC and Wave files.

## Authentication

*Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.*

* OAuth
    * [:octocat: authlib](https://github.com/lepture/authlib) - :star: 1892 :fork_and_knife: 191 - JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption draft implementation.
    * [:octocat: django-allauth](https://github.com/pennersr/django-allauth) - :star: 5593 :fork_and_knife: 1982 - Authentication app for Django that "just works."
    * [:octocat: django-oauth-toolkit](https://github.com/evonove/django-oauth-toolkit) - :star: 1958 :fork_and_knife: 556 - OAuth 2 goodies for Django.
    * [:octocat: oauthlib](https://github.com/idan/oauthlib) - :star: 2048 :fork_and_knife: 413 - A generic and thorough implementation of the OAuth request-signing logic.
    * [:octocat: python-oauth2](https://github.com/joestump/python-oauth2) - :star: 2918 :fork_and_knife: 1042 - A fully tested, abstract interface to creating OAuth clients and servers.
    * [:octocat: python-social-auth](https://github.com/omab/python-social-auth) - :star: 2788 :fork_and_knife: 1141 - An easy-to-setup social authentication mechanism.
* JWT
    * [:octocat: pyjwt](https://github.com/jpadilla/pyjwt) - :star: 3320 :fork_and_knife: 428 - JSON Web Token implementation in Python.
    * [:octocat: python-jose](https://github.com/mpdavis/python-jose/) - :star: 635 :fork_and_knife: 126 - A JOSE implementation in Python.
    * [:octocat: python-jwt](https://github.com/davedoesdev/python-jwt) - :star: 171 :fork_and_knife: 23 - A module for generating and verifying JSON Web Tokens.

## Build Tools

*Compile software from source code.*

* [:earth_americas: BitBake](http://www.yoctoproject.org/docs/1.6/bitbake-user-manual/bitbake-user-manual.html) - A make-like build tool for embedded Linux.
* [:earth_americas: buildout](http://www.buildout.org/en/latest/) - A build system for creating, assembling and deploying applications from multiple parts.
* [:octocat: PlatformIO](https://github.com/platformio/platformio-core) - :star: 4171 :fork_and_knife: 533 - A console tool to build code with different development platforms.
* [:octocat: pybuilder](https://github.com/pybuilder/pybuilder) - :star: 1219 :fork_and_knife: 220 - A continuous build tool written in pure Python.
* [:earth_americas: SCons](http://www.scons.org/) - A software construction tool.

## Built-in Classes Enhancement

*Libraries for enhancing Python built-in classes.*

* [:earth_americas: dataclasses](https://docs.python.org/3/library/dataclasses.html) - (Python standard library) Data classes.
* [:octocat: attrs](https://github.com/python-attrs/attrs) - :star: 3119 :fork_and_knife: 219 - Replacement for `__init__`, `__eq__`, `__repr__`, etc. boilerplate in class definitions.
* [:octocat: bidict](https://github.com/jab/bidict) - :star: 607 :fork_and_knife: 34 - Efficient, Pythonic bidirectional map data structures and related functionality..
* [:octocat: Box](https://github.com/cdgriffith/Box) - :star: 1473 :fork_and_knife: 60 - Python dictionaries with advanced dot notation access.
* [:octocat: DottedDict](https://github.com/carlosescri/DottedDict) - :star: 98 :fork_and_knife: 12 - A library that provides a method of accessing lists and dicts with a dotted path notation.

## CMS

*Content Management Systems.*

* [:earth_americas: wagtail](https://wagtail.io/) - A Django content management system.
* [:earth_americas: django-cms](https://www.django-cms.org/en/) - An Open source enterprise CMS based on the Django.
* [:octocat: feincms](https://github.com/feincms/feincms) - :star: 775 :fork_and_knife: 223 - One of the most advanced Content Management Systems built on Django.
* [:octocat: indico](https://github.com/indico/indico) - :star: 1050 :fork_and_knife: 240 - A feature-rich event management system, made @ [CERN](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CERN).
* [:octocat: Kotti](https://github.com/Kotti/Kotti) - :star: 351 :fork_and_knife: 114 - A high-level, Pythonic web application framework built on Pyramid.
* [:octocat: mezzanine](https://github.com/stephenmcd/mezzanine) - :star: 4091 :fork_and_knife: 1480 - A powerful, consistent, and flexible content management platform.
* [:earth_americas: plone](https://plone.org/) - A CMS built on top of the open source application server Zope.
* [:octocat: quokka](https://github.com/rochacbruno/quokka) - :star: 2190 :fork_and_knife: 461 - Flexible, extensible, small CMS powered by Flask and MongoDB.

## Caching

*Libraries for caching data.*

* [:octocat: beaker](https://github.com/bbangert/beaker) - :star: 443 :fork_and_knife: 127 - A WSGI middleware for sessions and caching.
* [:octocat: django-cache-machine](https://github.com/django-cache-machine/django-cache-machine) - :star: 788 :fork_and_knife: 154 - Automatic caching and invalidation for Django models.
* [:octocat: django-cacheops](https://github.com/Suor/django-cacheops) - :star: 1256 :fork_and_knife: 161 - A slick ORM cache with automatic granular event-driven invalidation.
* [:earth_americas: dogpile.cache](http://dogpilecache.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) - dogpile.cache is next generation replacement for Beaker made by same authors.
* [:earth_americas: HermesCache](https://pypi.org/project/HermesCache/) - Python caching library with tag-based invalidation and dogpile effect prevention.
* [:octocat: pylibmc](https://github.com/lericson/pylibmc) - :star: 432 :fork_and_knife: 120 - A Python wrapper around the [libmemcached](https://libmemcached.org/libMemcached.html) interface.
* [:earth_americas: python-diskcache](http://www.grantjenks.com/docs/diskcache/) - SQLite and file backed cache backend with faster lookups than memcached and redis.

## ChatOps Tools

*Libraries for chatbot development.*

* [:octocat: errbot](https://github.com/errbotio/errbot/) - :star: 2264 :fork_and_knife: 500 - The easiest and most popular chatbot to implement ChatOps.

## Code Analysis

*Tools of static analysis, linters and code quality checkers. Also see [awesome-static-analysis](https://github.com/mre/awesome-static-analysis).*

* Code Analysis
    * [:octocat: coala](https://github.com/coala/coala/) - :star: 3021 :fork_and_knife: 1351 - Language independent and easily extendable code analysis application.
    * [:octocat: code2flow](https://github.com/scottrogowski/code2flow) - :star: 741 :fork_and_knife: 125 - Turn your Python and JavaScript code into DOT flowcharts.
    * [:octocat: prospector](https://github.com/PyCQA/prospector) - :star: 1267 :fork_and_knife: 111 - A tool to analyse Python code.
    * [:octocat: pycallgraph](https://github.com/gak/pycallgraph) - :star: 1439 :fork_and_knife: 246 - A library that visualises the flow (call graph) of your Python application.
    * [:octocat: vulture](https://github.com/jendrikseipp/vulture) - :star: 952 :fork_and_knife: 52 - A tool for finding and analysing dead Python code.
* Code Linters
    * [:earth_americas: flake8](https://pypi.org/project/flake8/) - A wrapper around `pycodestyle`, `pyflakes` and McCabe.
        * [:octocat: awesome-flake8-extensions](https://github.com/DmytroLitvinov/awesome-flake8-extensions) - :star: 344 :fork_and_knife: 16
    * [:earth_americas: pylint](https://www.pylint.org/) - A fully customizable source code analyzer.
    * [:octocat: pylama](https://github.com/klen/pylama) - :star: 706 :fork_and_knife: 72 - A code audit tool for Python and JavaScript.
    * [:octocat: wemake-python-styleguide](https://github.com/wemake-services/wemake-python-styleguide) - :star: 1045 :fork_and_knife: 207 - The strictest and most opinionated python linter ever.
* Code Formatters
    * [:octocat: black](https://github.com/python/black) - :star: 16556 :fork_and_knife: 1001 - The uncompromising Python code formatter.
    * [:octocat: yapf](https://github.com/google/yapf) - :star: 10777 :fork_and_knife: 726 - Yet another Python code formatter from Google.
* Static Type Checkers, also see [awesome-python-typing](https://github.com/typeddjango/awesome-python-typing)
    * [:earth_americas: mypy](http://mypy-lang.org/) - Check variable types during compile time.
    * [:octocat: typeshed](https://github.com/python/typeshed) - :star: 1727 :fork_and_knife: 865 - Collection of library stubs for Python, with static types.
    * [:octocat: pyre-check](https://github.com/facebook/pyre-check) - :star: 3428 :fork_and_knife: 195 - Performant type checking.
* Static Type Annotations Generators
    * [:octocat: MonkeyType](https://github.com/Instagram/MonkeyType) - :star: 3005 :fork_and_knife: 113 - A system for Python that generates static type annotations by collecting runtime types

## Command-line Interface Development

*Libraries for building command-line applications.*

* Command-line Application Development
    * [:earth_americas: cement](http://builtoncement.com/) - CLI Application Framework for Python.
    * [:earth_americas: click](http://click.pocoo.org/dev/) - A package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way.
    * [:earth_americas: cliff](https://docs.openstack.org/developer/cliff/) - A framework for creating command-line programs with multi-level commands.
    * [:earth_americas: docopt](http://docopt.org/) - Pythonic command line arguments parser.
    * [:octocat: python-fire](https://github.com/google/python-fire) - :star: 17257 :fork_and_knife: 1057 - A library for creating command line interfaces from absolutely any Python object.
    * [:octocat: python-prompt-toolkit](https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit) - :star: 6358 :fork_and_knife: 482 - A library for building powerful interactive command lines.
* Terminal Rendering
    * [:octocat: asciimatics](https://github.com/peterbrittain/asciimatics) - :star: 1886 :fork_and_knife: 156 - A package to create full-screen text UIs (from interactive forms to ASCII animations).
    * [:octocat: bashplotlib](https://github.com/glamp/bashplotlib) - :star: 1417 :fork_and_knife: 115 - Making basic plots in the terminal.
    * [:earth_americas: colorama](https://pypi.org/project/colorama/) - Cross-platform colored terminal text.
    * [:octocat: rich](https://github.com/willmcgugan/rich) - :star: 7722 :fork_and_knife: 182 - Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. Also provides a great `RichHandler` log handler.
    * [:octocat: tqdm](https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm) - :star: 14978 :fork_and_knife: 775 - Fast, extensible progress bar for loops and CLI.
    * [:octocat: alive-progress](https://github.com/rsalmei/alive-progress) - :star: 647 :fork_and_knife: 20 - A new kind of Progress Bar, with real-time throughput, eta and very cool animations.

## Command-line Tools

*Useful CLI-based tools for productivity.*

* Productivity Tools
    * [:octocat: cookiecutter](https://github.com/audreyr/cookiecutter) - :star: 12297 :fork_and_knife: 1306 - A command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates).
    * [:octocat: doitlive](https://github.com/sloria/doitlive) - :star: 2773 :fork_and_knife: 87 - A tool for live presentations in the terminal.
    * [:octocat: howdoi](https://github.com/gleitz/howdoi) - :star: 8171 :fork_and_knife: 747 - Instant coding answers via the command line.
    * [:octocat: Invoke](https://github.com/pyinvoke/invoke#readme) - :star: 2895 :fork_and_knife: 260 - A tool for managing shell-oriented subprocesses and organizing executable Python code into CLI-invokable tasks.
    * [:octocat: PathPicker](https://github.com/facebook/PathPicker) - :star: 4413 :fork_and_knife: 269 - Select files out of bash output.
    * [:octocat: percol](https://github.com/mooz/percol) - :star: 2926 :fork_and_knife: 147 - Adds flavor of interactive selection to the traditional pipe concept on UNIX.
    * [:octocat: thefuck](https://github.com/nvbn/thefuck) - :star: 54074 :fork_and_knife: 2717 - Correcting your previous console command.
    * [:octocat: tmuxp](https://github.com/tony/tmuxp) - :star: 2781 :fork_and_knife: 181 - A [tmux](https://github.com/tmux/tmux) session manager.
    * [:octocat: try](https://github.com/timofurrer/try) - :star: 548 :fork_and_knife: 29 - A dead simple CLI to try out python packages - it's never been easier.
* CLI Enhancements
    * [:octocat: httpie](https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie) - :star: 47134 :fork_and_knife: 3050 - A command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement.
    * [:octocat: kube-shell](https://github.com/cloudnativelabs/kube-shell) - :star: 1622 :fork_and_knife: 130 - An integrated shell for working with the Kubernetes CLI.
    * [:octocat: mycli](https://github.com/dbcli/mycli) - :star: 8747 :fork_and_knife: 532 - MySQL CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
    * [:octocat: pgcli](https://github.com/dbcli/pgcli) - :star: 8771 :fork_and_knife: 403 - PostgreSQL CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
    * [:octocat: iredis](https://github.com/laixintao/iredis) - :star: 1099 :fork_and_knife: 39 - Redis CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
    * [:octocat: litecli](https://github.com/dbcli/litecli) - :star: 1152 :fork_and_knife: 33 - SQLite CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
    * [:octocat: saws](https://github.com/donnemartin/saws) - :star: 4516 :fork_and_knife: 245 - A Supercharged [aws-cli](https://github.com/aws/aws-cli).

## Compatibility

*Libraries for migrating from Python 2 to 3.*

* [:earth_americas: python-future](http://python-future.org/index.html) - The missing compatibility layer between Python 2 and Python 3.
* [:octocat: python-modernize](https://github.com/mitsuhiko/python-modernize) - :star: 540 :fork_and_knife: 67 - Modernizes Python code for eventual Python 3 migration.
* [:earth_americas: six](https://pypi.org/project/six/) - Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities.

## Computer Vision

*Libraries for Computer Vision.*

* [:octocat: Kornia](https://github.com/kornia/kornia/) - :star: 2553 :fork_and_knife: 265 - Open Source Differentiable Computer Vision Library for PyTorch.
* [:earth_americas: OpenCV](https://opencv.org/) - Open Source Computer Vision Library.
* [:octocat: pytesseract](https://github.com/madmaze/pytesseract) - :star: 2973 :fork_and_knife: 453 - Another wrapper for [Google Tesseract OCR](https://github.com/tesseract-ocr).
* [:octocat: tesserocr](https://github.com/sirfz/tesserocr) - :star: 1264 :fork_and_knife: 177 - A simple, Pillow-friendly, wrapper around the `tesseract-ocr` API for OCR.
* [:octocat: SimpleCV](https://github.com/sightmachine/SimpleCV) - :star: 2419 :fork_and_knife: 760 - An open source framework for building computer vision applications.

## Concurrency and Parallelism

*Libraries for concurrent and parallel execution. Also see [awesome-asyncio](https://github.com/timofurrer/awesome-asyncio).*

* [:earth_americas: concurrent.futures](https://docs.python.org/3/library/concurrent.futures.html) - (Python standard library) A high-level interface for asynchronously executing callables.
* [:earth_americas: multiprocessing](https://docs.python.org/3/library/multiprocessing.html) - (Python standard library) Process-based parallelism.
* [:earth_americas: eventlet](http://eventlet.net/) - Asynchronous framework with WSGI support.
* [:octocat: gevent](http://www.gevent.org/) - :star: 1148 :fork_and_knife: 182 - A coroutine-based Python networking library that uses [greenlet](https://github.com/python-greenlet/greenlet).
* [:octocat: uvloop](https://github.com/MagicStack/uvloop) - :star: 6984 :fork_and_knife: 410 - Ultra fast implementation of `asyncio` event loop on top of `libuv`.
* [:octocat: scoop](https://github.com/soravux/scoop) - :star: 455 :fork_and_knife: 74 - Scalable Concurrent Operations in Python.

## Configuration

*Libraries for storing and parsing configuration options.*

* [:octocat: configobj](https://github.com/DiffSK/configobj) - :star: 230 :fork_and_knife: 52 - INI file parser with validation.
* [:earth_americas: configparser](https://docs.python.org/3/library/configparser.html) - (Python standard library) INI file parser.
* [:earth_americas: profig](https://profig.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) - Config from multiple formats with value conversion.
* [:octocat: python-decouple](https://github.com/henriquebastos/python-decouple) - :star: 1365 :fork_and_knife: 125 - Strict separation of settings from code.
* [:octocat: hydra](https://github.com/facebookresearch/hydra) - :star: 2492 :fork_and_knife: 170 - Hydra is a framework for elegantly configuring complex applications.

## Cryptography

* [:earth_americas: cryptography](https://cryptography.io/en/latest/) - A package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.
* [:octocat: paramiko](https://github.com/paramiko/paramiko) - :star: 6330 :fork_and_knife: 1559 - The leading native Python SSHv2 protocol library.
* [:earth_americas: passlib](https://passlib.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) - Secure password storage/hashing library, very high level.
* [:octocat: pynacl](https://github.com/pyca/pynacl) - :star: 706 :fork_and_knife: 142 - Python binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library.

## Data Analysis

*Libraries for data analyzing.*

* [:octocat: Blaze](https://github.com/blaze/blaze) - :star: 2885 :fork_and_knife: 371 - NumPy and Pandas interface to Big Data.
* [:octocat: Open Mining](https://github.com/mining/mining) - :star: 1088 :fork_and_knife: 222 - Business Intelligence (BI) in Pandas interface.
* [:earth_americas: Orange](https://orange.biolab.si/) - Data mining, data visualization, analysis and machine learning through visual programming or scripts.
* [:earth_americas: Pandas](http://pandas.pydata.org/) - A library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools.
* [:octocat: Optimus](https://github.com/ironmussa/Optimus) - :star: 905 :fork_and_knife: 185 - Agile Data Science Workflows made easy with PySpark.
* [:octocat: AWS Data Wrangler](https://github.com/awslabs/aws-data-wrangler) - :star: 816 :fork_and_knife: 111 - Pandas on AWS.

## Data Validation

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

* [:octocat: Cerberus](https://github.com/pyeve/cerberus) - :star: 2112 :fork_and_knife: 192 - A lightweight and extensible data validation library.
* [:earth_americas: colander](https://docs.pylonsproject.org/projects/colander/en/latest/) - Validating and deserializing data obtained via XML, JSON, an HTML form post.
* [:octocat: jsonschema](https://github.com/Julian/jsonschema) - :star: 2837 :fork_and_knife: 420 - An implementation of [JSON Schema](http://json-schema.org/) for Python.
* [:octocat: schema](https://github.com/keleshev/schema) - :star: 2092 :fork_and_knife: 157 - A library for validating Python data structures.
* [:octocat: Schematics](https://github.com/schematics/schematics) - :star: 2348 :fork_and_knife: 284 - Data Structure Validation.
* [:octocat: valideer](https://github.com/podio/valideer) - :star: 235 :fork_and_knife: 17 - Lightweight extensible data validation and adaptation library.
* [:octocat: voluptuous](https://github.com/alecthomas/voluptuous) - :star: 1622 :fork_and_knife: 186 - A Python data validation library.

## Data Visualization

*Libraries for visualizing data. Also see [awesome-javascript](https://github.com/sorrycc/awesome-javascript#data-visualization).*

* [:octocat: Altair](https://github.com/altair-viz/altair) - :star: 5667 :fork_and_knife: 525 - Declarative statistical visualization library for Python.
* [:octocat: Bokeh](https://github.com/bokeh/bokeh) - :star: 13629 :fork_and_knife: 3450 - Interactive Web Plotting for Python.
* [:octocat: bqplot](https://github.com/bloomberg/bqplot) - :star: 2811 :fork_and_knife: 408 - Interactive Plotting Library for the Jupyter Notebook
* [:earth_americas: Dash](https://plot.ly/products/dash/) - Built on top of Flask, React and Plotly aimed at analytical web applications.
    * [:octocat: awesome-dash](https://github.com/Acrotrend/awesome-dash) - :star: 813 :fork_and_knife: 132
* [:octocat: diagrams](https://github.com/mingrammer/diagrams) - :star: 5347 :fork_and_knife: 284 - Diagram as Code.
* [:octocat: plotnine](https://github.com/has2k1/plotnine) - :star: 2270 :fork_and_knife: 119 - A grammar of graphics for Python based on ggplot2.
* [:earth_americas: Matplotlib](http://matplotlib.org/) - A Python 2D plotting library.
* [:earth_americas: Pygal](http://www.pygal.org/en/latest/) - A Python SVG Charts Creator.
* [:earth_americas: PyGraphviz](https://pypi.org/project/pygraphviz/) - Python interface to [Graphviz](http://www.graphviz.org/).
* [:earth_americas: PyQtGraph](http://www.pyqtgraph.org/) - Interactive and realtime 2D/3D/Image plotting and science/engineering widgets.
* [:octocat: Seaborn](https://github.com/mwaskom/seaborn) - :star: 7360 :fork_and_knife: 1263 - Statistical data visualization using Matplotlib.
* [:octocat: VisPy](https://github.com/vispy/vispy) - :star: 2364 :fork_and_knife: 520 - High-performance scientific visualization based on OpenGL.

## Database

*Databases implemented in Python.*

* [:octocat: pickleDB](https://github.com/patx/pickledb) - :star: 481 :fork_and_knife: 88 - A simple and lightweight key-value store for Python.
* [:octocat: tinydb](https://github.com/msiemens/tinydb) - :star: 3554 :fork_and_knife: 325 - A tiny, document-oriented database.
* [:octocat: ZODB](https://github.com/zopefoundation/ZODB) - :star: 402 :fork_and_knife: 57 - A native object database for Python. A key-value and object graph database.

## Database Drivers

*Libraries for connecting and operating databases.*

* MySQL - [awesome-mysql](http://shlomi-noach.github.io/awesome-mysql/)
    * [:octocat: mysqlclient](https://github.com/PyMySQL/mysqlclient-python) - :star: 1751 :fork_and_knife: 294 - MySQL connector with Python 3 support ([mysql-python](https://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/) fork).
    * [:octocat: PyMySQL](https://github.com/PyMySQL/PyMySQL) - :star: 5982 :fork_and_knife: 1210 - A pure Python MySQL driver compatible to mysql-python.
* PostgreSQL - [awesome-postgres](https://github.com/dhamaniasad/awesome-postgres)
    * [:earth_americas: psycopg2](http://initd.org/psycopg/) - The most popular PostgreSQL adapter for Python.
    * [:octocat: queries](https://github.com/gmr/queries) - :star: 223 :fork_and_knife: 25 - A wrapper of the psycopg2 library for interacting with PostgreSQL.
* Other Relational Databases
    * [:earth_americas: pymssql](https://pymssql.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) - A simple database interface to Microsoft SQL Server.
    * [:octocat: SuperSQLite](https://github.com/plasticityai/supersqlite) - :star: 636 :fork_and_knife: 16 - A supercharged SQLite library built on top of [apsw](https://github.com/rogerbinns/apsw).
* NoSQL Databases
    * [:octocat: cassandra-driver](https://github.com/datastax/python-driver) - :star: 1155 :fork_and_knife: 435 - The Python Driver for Apache Cassandra.
    * [:octocat: happybase](https://github.com/wbolster/happybase) - :star: 536 :fork_and_knife: 150 - A developer-friendly library for Apache HBase.
    * [:octocat: kafka-python](https://github.com/dpkp/kafka-python) - :star: 3907 :fork_and_knife: 1073 - The Python client for Apache Kafka.
    * [:earth_americas: py2neo](https://py2neo.org/) - A client library and toolkit for working with Neo4j.
    * [:octocat: pymongo](https://github.com/mongodb/mongo-python-driver) - :star: 3053 :fork_and_knife: 944 - The official Python client for MongoDB.
    * [:octocat: redis-py](https://github.com/andymccurdy/redis-py) - :star: 8631 :fork_and_knife: 1853 - The Python client for Redis.
* Asynchronous Clients
    * [:octocat: motor](https://github.com/mongodb/motor) - :star: 1493 :fork_and_knife: 132 - The async Python driver for MongoDB.

## Date and Time

*Libraries for working with dates and times.*

* [:earth_americas: Arrow](https://arrow.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) - A Python library that offers a sensible and human-friendly approach to creating, manipulating, formatting and converting dates, times and timestamps.
* [:octocat: Chronyk](https://github.com/KoffeinFlummi/Chronyk) - :star: 308 :fork_and_knife: 11 - A Python 3 library for parsing human-written times and dates.
* [:octocat: dateutil](https://github.com/dateutil/dateutil) - :star: 1317 :fork_and_knife: 324 - Extensions to the standard Python [datetime](https://docs.python.org/3/library/datetime.html) module.
* [:octocat: delorean](https://github.com/myusuf3/delorean/) - :star: 1662 :fork_and_knife: 110 - A library for clearing up the inconvenient truths that arise dealing with datetimes.
* [:octocat: moment](https://github.com/zachwill/moment) - :star: 637 :fork_and_knife: 41 - A Python library for dealing with dates/times. Inspired by [Moment.js](http://momentjs.com/).
* [:octocat: Pendulum](https://github.com/sdispater/pendulum) - :star: 3952 :fork_and_knife: 219 - Python datetimes made easy.
* [:octocat: PyTime](https://github.com/shinux/PyTime) - :star: 136 :fork_and_knife: 20 - An easy-to-use Python module which aims to operate date/time/datetime by string.
* [:earth_americas: pytz](https://launchpad.net/pytz) - World timezone definitions, modern and historical. Brings the [tz database](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tz_database) into Python.
* [:octocat: when.py](https://github.com/dirn/When.py) - :star: 184 :fork_and_knife: 16 - Providing user-friendly functions to help perform common date and time actions.
* [:octocat: maya](https://github.com/timofurrer/maya) - :star: 3155 :fork_and_knife: 197 - Datetimes for Humans.

## Debugging Tools

*Libraries for debugging code.*

* pdb-like Debugger
    * [:octocat: ipdb](https://github.com/gotcha/ipdb) - :star: 1206 :fork_and_knife: 115 - IPython-enabled [pdb](https://docs.python.org/3/library/pdb.html).
    * [:octocat: pdb++](https://github.com/antocuni/pdb) - :star: 514 :fork_and_knife: 35 - Another drop-in replacement for pdb.
    * [:octocat: pudb](https://github.com/inducer/pudb) - :star: 1766 :fork_and_knife: 161 - A full-screen, console-based Python debugger.
    * [:octocat: wdb](https://github.com/Kozea/wdb) - :star: 1477 :fork_and_knife: 98 - An improbable web debugger through WebSockets.
* Tracing
    * [:octocat: lptrace](https://github.com/khamidou/lptrace) - :star: 660 :fork_and_knife: 39 - [strace](http://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man1/strace.1.html) for Python programs.
    * [:octocat: manhole](https://github.com/ionelmc/python-manhole) - :star: 284 :fork_and_knife: 14 - Debugging UNIX socket connections and present the stacktraces for all threads and an interactive prompt.
    * [:octocat: pyringe](https://github.com/google/pyringe) - :star: 1575 :fork_and_knife: 68 - Debugger capable of attaching to and injecting code into Python processes.
    * [:octocat: python-hunter](https://github.com/ionelmc/python-hunter) - :star: 542 :fork_and_knife: 24 - A flexible code tracing toolkit.
* Profiler
    * [:octocat: line_profiler](https://github.com/rkern/line_profiler) - :star: 3429 :fork_and_knife: 234 - Line-by-line profiling.
    * [:octocat: memory_profiler](https://github.com/fabianp/memory_profiler) - :star: 53 :fork_and_knife: 10 - Monitor Memory usage of Python code.
    * [:octocat: profiling](https://github.com/what-studio/profiling) - :star: 2988 :fork_and_knife: 118 - An interactive Python profiler.
    * [:octocat: py-spy](https://github.com/benfred/py-spy) - :star: 5633 :fork_and_knife: 217 - A sampling profiler for Python programs. Written in Rust.
    * [:octocat: pyflame](https://github.com/uber/pyflame) - :star: 2819 :fork_and_knife: 215 - A ptracing profiler For Python.
    * [:octocat: vprof](https://github.com/nvdv/vprof) - :star: 3649 :fork_and_knife: 167 - Visual Python profiler.
* Others
    * [:octocat: icecream](https://github.com/gruns/icecream) - :star: 1514 :fork_and_knife: 33 - Inspect variables, expressions, and program execution with a single, simple function call.
    * [:octocat: django-debug-toolbar](https://github.com/jazzband/django-debug-toolbar) - :star: 5986 :fork_and_knife: 876 - Display various debug information for Django.
    * [:octocat: django-devserver](https://github.com/dcramer/django-devserver) - :star: 1253 :fork_and_knife: 166 - A drop-in replacement for Django's runserver.
    * [:octocat: flask-debugtoolbar](https://github.com/mgood/flask-debugtoolbar) - :star: 753 :fork_and_knife: 117 - A port of the django-debug-toolbar to flask.
    * [:octocat: pyelftools](https://github.com/eliben/pyelftools) - :star: 1026 :fork_and_knife: 361 - Parsing and analyzing ELF files and DWARF debugging information.

## Deep Learning

*Frameworks for Neural Networks and Deep Learning. Also see [awesome-deep-learning](https://github.com/ChristosChristofidis/awesome-deep-learning).*

* [:octocat: caffe](https://github.com/BVLC/caffe) - :star: 30492 :fork_and_knife: 18376 - A fast open framework for deep learning..
* [:octocat: keras](https://github.com/keras-team/keras) - :star: 48793 :fork_and_knife: 18399 - A high-level neural networks library and capable of running on top of either TensorFlow or Theano.
* [:octocat: mxnet](https://github.com/dmlc/mxnet) - :star: 18825 :fork_and_knife: 6686 - A deep learning framework designed for both efficiency and flexibility.
* [:octocat: pytorch](https://github.com/pytorch/pytorch) - :star: 39830 :fork_and_knife: 10304 - Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration.
* [:octocat: SerpentAI](https://github.com/SerpentAI/SerpentAI) - :star: 5591 :fork_and_knife: 622 - Game agent framework. Use any video game as a deep learning sandbox.
* [:octocat: tensorflow](https://github.com/tensorflow/tensorflow) - :star: 145984 :fork_and_knife: 81859 - The most popular Deep Learning framework created by Google.
* [:octocat: Theano](https://github.com/Theano/Theano) - :star: 9180 :fork_and_knife: 2515 - A library for fast numerical computation.

## DevOps Tools

*Software and libraries for DevOps.*

* [:octocat: ansible](https://github.com/ansible/ansible) - :star: 43708 :fork_and_knife: 19262 - A radically simple IT automation platform.
* [:earth_americas: cloudinit](https://cloudinit.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) - A multi-distribution package that handles early initialization of a cloud instance.
* [:octocat: cuisine](https://github.com/sebastien/cuisine) - :star: 1239 :fork_and_knife: 161 - Chef-like functionality for Fabric.
* [:earth_americas: docker-compose](https://docs.docker.com/compose/) - Fast, isolated development environments using [Docker](https://www.docker.com/).
* [:octocat: fabric](https://github.com/fabric/fabric) - :star: 12328 :fork_and_knife: 1808 - A simple, Pythonic tool for remote execution and deployment.
* [:octocat: fabtools](https://github.com/fabtools/fabtools) - :star: 1235 :fork_and_knife: 218 - Tools for writing awesome Fabric files.
* [:octocat: honcho](https://github.com/nickstenning/honcho) - :star: 1349 :fork_and_knife: 122 - A Python clone of [Foreman](https://github.com/ddollar/foreman), for managing Procfile-based applications.
* [:earth_americas: OpenStack](https://www.openstack.org/) - Open source software for building private and public clouds.
* [:octocat: pexpect](https://github.com/pexpect/pexpect) - :star: 1853 :fork_and_knife: 415 - Controlling interactive programs in a pseudo-terminal like GNU expect.
* [:octocat: psutil](https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil) - :star: 6382 :fork_and_knife: 999 - A cross-platform process and system utilities module.
* [:octocat: saltstack](https://github.com/saltstack/salt) - :star: 11085 :fork_and_knife: 4872 - Infrastructure automation and management system.
* [:octocat: supervisor](https://github.com/Supervisor/supervisor) - :star: 6226 :fork_and_knife: 1044 - Supervisor process control system for UNIX.

## Distributed Computing

*Frameworks and libraries for Distributed Computing.*

* Batch Processing
    * [:earth_americas: PySpark](https://pypi.org/project/pyspark/) - [Apache Spark](https://spark.apache.org/) Python API.
    * [:octocat: dask](https://github.com/dask/dask) - :star: 6864 :fork_and_knife: 1102 - A flexible parallel computing library for analytic computing.
    * [:octocat: luigi](https://github.com/spotify/luigi) - :star: 13448 :fork_and_knife: 2136 - A module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs.
    * [:octocat: mrjob](https://github.com/Yelp/mrjob) - :star: 2502 :fork_and_knife: 585 - Run MapReduce jobs on Hadoop or Amazon Web Services.
    * [:octocat: Ray](https://github.com/ray-project/ray/) - :star: 12077 :fork_and_knife: 1831 - A system for parallel and distributed Python that unifies the machine learning ecosystem.
* Stream Processing
    * [:octocat: faust](https://github.com/robinhood/faust) - :star: 4692 :fork_and_knife: 367 - A stream processing library, porting the ideas from [Kafka Streams](https://kafka.apache.org/documentation/streams/) to Python.
    * [:octocat: streamparse](https://github.com/Parsely/streamparse) - :star: 1411 :fork_and_knife: 217 - Run Python code against real-time streams of data via [Apache Storm](http://storm.apache.org/).

## Distribution

*Libraries to create packaged executables for release distribution.*

* [:octocat: dh-virtualenv](https://github.com/spotify/dh-virtualenv) - :star: 1373 :fork_and_knife: 152 - Build and distribute a virtualenv as a Debian package.
* [:earth_americas: Nuitka](http://nuitka.net/) - Compile scripts, modules, packages to an executable or extension module.
* [:earth_americas: py2app](http://pythonhosted.org/py2app/) - Freezes Python scripts (Mac OS X).
* [:earth_americas: py2exe](http://www.py2exe.org/) - Freezes Python scripts (Windows).
* [:octocat: PyInstaller](https://github.com/pyinstaller/pyinstaller) - :star: 6853 :fork_and_knife: 1468 - Converts Python programs into stand-alone executables (cross-platform).
* [:earth_americas: pynsist](http://pynsist.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) - A tool to build Windows installers, installers bundle Python itself.
* [:octocat: pyarmor](https://github.com/dashingsoft/pyarmor) - :star: 553 :fork_and_knife: 92 - A tool used to obfuscate python scripts, bind obfuscated scripts to fixed machine or expire obfuscated scripts.
* [:octocat: shiv](https://github.com/linkedin/shiv) - :star: 950 :fork_and_knife: 54 - A command line utility for building fully self-contained zipapps (PEP 441), but with all their dependencies included.

## Documentation

*Libraries for generating project documentation.*

* [:octocat: sphinx](https://github.com/sphinx-doc/sphinx/) - :star: 3368 :fork_and_knife: 1295 - Python Documentation generator.
    * [:octocat: awesome-sphinxdoc](https://github.com/yoloseem/awesome-sphinxdoc) - :star: 652 :fork_and_knife: 56
* [:octocat: pdoc](https://github.com/mitmproxy/pdoc) - :star: 658 :fork_and_knife: 95 - Epydoc replacement to auto generate API documentation for Python libraries.
* [:octocat: pycco](https://github.com/pycco-docs/pycco) - :star: 710 :fork_and_knife: 133 - The literate-programming-style documentation generator.

## Downloader

*Libraries for downloading.*

* [:octocat: s3cmd](https://github.com/s3tools/s3cmd) - :star: 3357 :fork_and_knife: 792 - A command line tool for managing Amazon S3 and CloudFront.
* [:octocat: s4cmd](https://github.com/bloomreach/s4cmd) - :star: 1004 :fork_and_knife: 173 - Super S3 command line tool, good for higher performance.
* [:earth_americas: you-get](https://you-get.org/) - A YouTube/Youku/Niconico video downloader written in Python 3.
* [:earth_americas: youtube-dl](https://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/) - A small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.
* [:octocat: akshare](https://github.com/jindaxiang/akshare) - :star: 1819 :fork_and_knife: 340 - A financial data interface library, built for human beings!

## E-commerce

*Frameworks and libraries for e-commerce and payments.*

* [:octocat: alipay](https://github.com/lxneng/alipay) - :star: 315 :fork_and_knife: 99 - Unofficial Alipay API for Python.
* [:octocat: Cartridge](https://github.com/stephenmcd/cartridge) - :star: 619 :fork_and_knife: 289 - A shopping cart app built using the Mezzanine.
* [:earth_americas: django-oscar](http://oscarcommerce.com/) - An open-source e-commerce framework for Django.
* [:octocat: django-shop](https://github.com/awesto/django-shop) - :star: 2230 :fork_and_knife: 817 - A Django based shop system.
* [:octocat: merchant](https://github.com/agiliq/merchant) - :star: 949 :fork_and_knife: 169 - A Django app to accept payments from various payment processors.
* [:octocat: money](https://github.com/carlospalol/money) - :star: 186 :fork_and_knife: 24 - `Money` class with optional CLDR-backed locale-aware formatting and an extensible currency exchange.
* [:octocat: python-currencies](https://github.com/Alir3z4/python-currencies) - :star: 44 :fork_and_knife: 7 - Display money format and its filthy currencies.
* [:octocat: forex-python](https://github.com/MicroPyramid/forex-python) - :star: 323 :fork_and_knife: 102 - Foreign exchange rates, Bitcoin price index and currency conversion.
* [:earth_americas: saleor](http://getsaleor.com/) - An e-commerce storefront for Django.
* [:earth_americas: shoop](https://www.shuup.com/en/) - An open source E-Commerce platform based on Django.

## Editor Plugins and IDEs

* Emacs
    * [:octocat: elpy](https://github.com/jorgenschaefer/elpy) - :star: 1597 :fork_and_knife: 207 - Emacs Python Development Environment.
* Sublime Text
    * [:octocat: anaconda](https://github.com/DamnWidget/anaconda) - :star: 2080 :fork_and_knife: 244 - Anaconda turns your Sublime Text 3 in a full featured Python development IDE.
    * [:octocat: SublimeJEDI](https://github.com/srusskih/SublimeJEDI) - :star: 894 :fork_and_knife: 105 - A Sublime Text plugin to the awesome auto-complete library Jedi.
* Vim
    * [:octocat: jedi-vim](https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi-vim) - :star: 4457 :fork_and_knife: 364 - Vim bindings for the Jedi auto-completion library for Python.
    * [:octocat: python-mode](https://github.com/python-mode/python-mode) - :star: 5036 :fork_and_knife: 880 - An all in one plugin for turning Vim into a Python IDE.
    * [:octocat: YouCompleteMe](https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe) - :star: 21431 :fork_and_knife: 2471 - Includes [Jedi](https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi)-based completion engine for Python.
* Visual Studio
    * [:octocat: PTVS](https://github.com/Microsoft/PTVS) - :star: 2273 :fork_and_knife: 635 - Python Tools for Visual Studio.
* Visual Studio Code
    * [:earth_americas: Python](https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-python.python) - The official VSCode extension with rich support for Python.
* IDE
    * [:earth_americas: PyCharm](https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/) - Commercial Python IDE by JetBrains. Has free community edition available.
    * [:octocat: spyder](https://github.com/spyder-ide/spyder) - :star: 5501 :fork_and_knife: 1117 - Open Source Python IDE.

## Email

*Libraries for sending and parsing email.*

* Mail Servers
    * [:octocat: modoboa](https://github.com/modoboa/modoboa) - :star: 1566 :fork_and_knife: 237 - A mail hosting and management platform including a modern Web UI.
    * [:octocat: salmon](https://github.com/moggers87/salmon) - :star: 432 :fork_and_knife: 45 - A Python Mail Server.
* Clients
    * [:octocat: imbox](https://github.com/martinrusev/imbox) - :star: 915 :fork_and_knife: 150 - Python IMAP for Humans.
    * [:octocat: yagmail](https://github.com/kootenpv/yagmail) - :star: 1784 :fork_and_knife: 197 - Yet another Gmail/SMTP client.
* Others
    * [:octocat: flanker](https://github.com/mailgun/flanker) - :star: 1411 :fork_and_knife: 173 - An email address and Mime parsing library.
    * [:octocat: mailer](https://github.com/marrow/mailer) - :star: 199 :fork_and_knife: 42 - High-performance extensible mail delivery framework.

## Environment Management

*Libraries for Python version and virtual environment management.*

* [:octocat: pyenv](https://github.com/pyenv/pyenv) - :star: 19897 :fork_and_knife: 1739 - Simple Python version management.
* [:octocat: virtualenv](https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv) - :star: 3607 :fork_and_knife: 841 - A tool to create isolated Python environments.

## Files

*Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.*

* [:earth_americas: mimetypes](https://docs.python.org/3/library/mimetypes.html) - (Python standard library) Map filenames to MIME types.
* [:octocat: path.py](https://github.com/jaraco/path.py) - :star: 911 :fork_and_knife: 124 - A module wrapper for [os.path](https://docs.python.org/3/library/os.path.html).
* [:earth_americas: pathlib](https://docs.python.org/3/library/pathlib.html) - (Python standard library) An cross-platform, object-oriented path library.
* [:octocat: PyFilesystem2](https://github.com/pyfilesystem/pyfilesystem2) - :star: 1089 :fork_and_knife: 107 - Python's filesystem abstraction layer.
* [:octocat: python-magic](https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic) - :star: 1619 :fork_and_knife: 200 - A Python interface to the libmagic file type identification library.
* [:octocat: Unipath](https://github.com/mikeorr/Unipath) - :star: 488 :fork_and_knife: 36 - An object-oriented approach to file/directory operations.
* [:octocat: watchdog](https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog) - :star: 4142 :fork_and_knife: 510 - API and shell utilities to monitor file system events.

## Foreign Function Interface

*Libraries for providing foreign function interface.*

* [:earth_americas: cffi](https://pypi.org/project/cffi/) - Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.
* [:earth_americas: ctypes](https://docs.python.org/3/library/ctypes.html) - (Python standard library) Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.
* [:earth_americas: PyCUDA](https://mathema.tician.de/software/pycuda/) - A Python wrapper for Nvidia's CUDA API.
* [:earth_americas: SWIG](http://www.swig.org/Doc1.3/Python.html) - Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator.

## Forms

*Libraries for working with forms.*

* [:octocat: Deform](https://github.com/Pylons/deform) - :star: 330 :fork_and_knife: 150 - Python HTML form generation library influenced by the formish form generation library.
* [:octocat: django-bootstrap3](https://github.com/dyve/django-bootstrap3) - :star: 2189 :fork_and_knife: 690 - Bootstrap 3 integration with Django.
* [:octocat: django-bootstrap4](https://github.com/zostera/django-bootstrap4) - :star: 754 :fork_and_knife: 182 - Bootstrap 4 integration with Django.
* [:octocat: django-crispy-forms](https://github.com/django-crispy-forms/django-crispy-forms) - :star: 3908 :fork_and_knife: 664 - A Django app which lets you create beautiful forms in a very elegant and DRY way.
* [:octocat: django-remote-forms](https://github.com/WiserTogether/django-remote-forms) - :star: 199 :fork_and_knife: 100 - A platform independent Django form serializer.
* [:octocat: WTForms](https://github.com/wtforms/wtforms) - :star: 1116 :fork_and_knife: 325 - A flexible forms validation and rendering library.

## Functional Programming

*Functional Programming with Python.*

* [:octocat: Coconut](https://github.com/evhub/coconut) - :star: 2791 :fork_and_knife: 92 - A variant of Python built for simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming.
* [:octocat: fn.py](https://github.com/kachayev/fn.py) - :star: 3015 :fork_and_knife: 186 - Functional programming in Python: implementation of missing features to enjoy FP.
* [:octocat: funcy](https://github.com/Suor/funcy) - :star: 2322 :fork_and_knife: 114 - A fancy and practical functional tools.
* [:octocat: more-itertools](https://github.com/erikrose/more-itertools) - :star: 1415 :fork_and_knife: 137 - More routines for operating on iterables, beyond `itertools`.
* [:octocat: returns](https://github.com/dry-python/returns) - :star: 1186 :fork_and_knife: 36 - A set of type-safe monads, tranformers, and composition utilities.
* [:octocat: Toolz](https://github.com/pytoolz/toolz) - :star: 2751 :fork_and_knife: 195 - A collection of functional utilities for iterators, functions, and dictionaries.
* [:octocat: CyToolz](https://github.com/pytoolz/cytoolz/) - :star: 717 :fork_and_knife: 52 - Cython implementation of `Toolz`: High performance functional utilities.

## GUI Development

*Libraries for working with graphical user interface applications.*

* [:earth_americas: curses](https://docs.python.org/3/library/curses.html) - Built-in wrapper for [ncurses](http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/) used to create terminal GUI applications.
* [:octocat: Eel](https://github.com/ChrisKnott/Eel) - :star: 3629 :fork_and_knife: 341 - A library for making simple Electron-like offline HTML/JS GUI apps.
* [:octocat: enaml](https://github.com/nucleic/enaml) - :star: 872 :fork_and_knife: 96 - Creating beautiful user-interfaces with Declarative Syntax like QML.
* [:octocat: Flexx](https://github.com/zoofIO/flexx) - :star: 2338 :fork_and_knife: 224 - Flexx is a pure Python toolkit for creating GUI's, that uses web technology for its rendering.
* [:octocat: Gooey](https://github.com/chriskiehl/Gooey) - :star: 8936 :fork_and_knife: 522 - Turn command line programs into a full GUI application with one line.
* [:earth_americas: kivy](https://kivy.org/) - A library for creating NUI applications, running on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android and iOS.
* [:earth_americas: pyglet](https://bitbucket.org/pyglet/pyglet/wiki/Home) - A cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python.
* [:earth_americas: PyGObject](https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/PyGObject) - Python Bindings for GLib/GObject/GIO/GTK+ (GTK+3).
* [:earth_americas: PyQt](https://riverbankcomputing.com/software/pyqt/intro) - Python bindings for the [Qt](https://www.qt.io/) cross-platform application and UI framework.
* [:octocat: PySimpleGUI](https://github.com/PySimpleGUI/PySimpleGUI) - :star: 3962 :fork_and_knife: 617 - Wrapper for tkinter, Qt, WxPython and Remi.
* [:octocat: pywebview](https://github.com/r0x0r/pywebview/) - :star: 1892 :fork_and_knife: 253 - A lightweight cross-platform native wrapper around a webview component.
* [:earth_americas: Tkinter](https://wiki.python.org/moin/TkInter) - Tkinter is Python's de-facto standard GUI package.
* [:octocat: Toga](https://github.com/pybee/toga) - :star: 2306 :fork_and_knife: 411 - A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit.
* [:earth_americas: urwid](http://urwid.org/) - A library for creating terminal GUI applications with strong support for widgets, events, rich colors, etc.
* [:earth_americas: wxPython](https://wxpython.org/) - A blending of the wxWidgets C++ class library with the Python.

## GraphQL

*Libraries for working with GraphQL.*

* [:earth_americas: tartiflette](https://tartiflette.io) - SDL-first GraphQL engine implementation for Python 3.6+ and asyncio.
* [:octocat: tartiflette-aiohttp](https://github.com/tartiflette/tartiflette-aiohttp/) - :star: 41 :fork_and_knife: 4 - An `aiohttp`-based wrapper for Tartiflette to expose GraphQL APIs over HTTP.
* [:octocat: tartiflette-asgi](https://github.com/tartiflette/tartiflette-asgi/) - :star: 61 :fork_and_knife: 9 - ASGI support for the Tartiflette GraphQL engine.

## Game Development

*Awesome game development libraries.*

* [:earth_americas: Cocos2d](http://cocos2d.org/) - cocos2d is a framework for building 2D games, demos, and other graphical/interactive applications.
* [:earth_americas: Harfang3D](http://www.harfang3d.com) - Python framework for 3D, VR and game development.
* [:earth_americas: Panda3D](https://www.panda3d.org/) - 3D game engine developed by Disney.
* [:earth_americas: Pygame](http://www.pygame.org/news.html) - Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing games.
* [:earth_americas: PyOgre](http://www.ogre3d.org/tikiwiki/PyOgre) - Python bindings for the Ogre 3D render engine, can be used for games, simulations, anything 3D.
* [:earth_americas: PyOpenGL](http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/) - Python ctypes bindings for OpenGL and it's related APIs.
* [:earth_americas: PySDL2](https://pysdl2.readthedocs.io) - A ctypes based wrapper for the SDL2 library.
* [:earth_americas: RenPy](https://www.renpy.org/) - A Visual Novel engine.

## Geolocation

*Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.*

* [:octocat: django-countries](https://github.com/SmileyChris/django-countries) - :star: 825 :fork_and_knife: 202 - A Django app that provides a country field for models and forms.
* [:earth_americas: GeoDjango](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/gis/) - A world-class geographic web framework.
* [:octocat: GeoIP](https://github.com/maxmind/geoip-api-python) - :star: 207 :fork_and_knife: 61 - Python API for MaxMind GeoIP Legacy Database.
* [:octocat: geojson](https://github.com/frewsxcv/python-geojson) - :star: 549 :fork_and_knife: 71 - Python bindings and utilities for GeoJSON.
* [:octocat: geopy](https://github.com/geopy/geopy) - :star: 2898 :fork_and_knife: 500 - Python Geocoding Toolbox.
* [:octocat: pygeoip](https://github.com/appliedsec/pygeoip) - :star: 482 :fork_and_knife: 109 - Pure Python GeoIP API.

## HTML Manipulation

*Libraries for working with HTML and XML.*

* [:earth_americas: BeautifulSoup](https://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/) - Providing Pythonic idioms for iterating, searching, and modifying HTML or XML.
* [:octocat: bleach](https://github.com/mozilla/bleach) - :star: 1932 :fork_and_knife: 213 - A whitelist-based HTML sanitization and text linkification library.
* [:earth_americas: cssutils](https://pypi.org/project/cssutils/) - A CSS library for Python.
* [:octocat: html5lib](https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python) - :star: 848 :fork_and_knife: 241 - A standards-compliant library for parsing and serializing HTML documents and fragments.
* [:earth_americas: lxml](http://lxml.de/) - A very fast, easy-to-use and versatile library for handling HTML and XML.
* [:octocat: MarkupSafe](https://github.com/pallets/markupsafe) - :star: 330 :fork_and_knife: 89 - Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python.
* [:octocat: pyquery](https://github.com/gawel/pyquery) - :star: 1858 :fork_and_knife: 157 - A jQuery-like library for parsing HTML.
* [:octocat: untangle](https://github.com/stchris/untangle) - :star: 465 :fork_and_knife: 65 - Converts XML documents to Python objects for easy access.
* [:earth_americas: WeasyPrint](http://weasyprint.org) - A visual rendering engine for HTML and CSS that can export to PDF.
* [:earth_americas: xmldataset](https://xmldataset.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) - Simple XML Parsing.
* [:octocat: xmltodict](https://github.com/martinblech/xmltodict) - :star: 4008 :fork_and_knife: 389 - Working with XML feel like you are working with JSON.

## HTTP Clients

*Libraries for working with HTTP.*

* [:octocat: grequests](https://github.com/spyoungtech/grequests) - :star: 3427 :fork_and_knife: 304 - requests + gevent for asynchronous HTTP requests.
* [:octocat: httplib2](https://github.com/httplib2/httplib2) - :star: 368 :fork_and_knife: 123 - Comprehensive HTTP client library.
* [:octocat: httpx](https://github.com/encode/httpx) - :star: 5037 :fork_and_knife: 301 - A next generation HTTP client for Python.
* [:octocat: requests](https://github.com/psf/requests) - :star: 42861 :fork_and_knife: 7773 - HTTP Requests for Humans.
* [:octocat: treq](https://github.com/twisted/treq) - :star: 502 :fork_and_knife: 137 - Python requests like API built on top of Twisted's HTTP client.
* [:octocat: urllib3](https://github.com/shazow/urllib3) - :star: 2361 :fork_and_knife: 759 - A HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post support, sanity friendly.

## Hardware

*Libraries for programming with hardware.*

* [:earth_americas: ino](http://inotool.org/) - Command line toolkit for working with [Arduino](https://www.arduino.cc/).
* [:octocat: keyboard](https://github.com/boppreh/keyboard) - :star: 1927 :fork_and_knife: 227 - Hook and simulate global keyboard events on Windows and Linux.
* [:octocat: mouse](https://github.com/boppreh/mouse) - :star: 318 :fork_and_knife: 52 - Hook and simulate global mouse events on Windows and Linux.
* [:earth_americas: Pingo](http://www.pingo.io/) - Pingo provides a uniform API to program devices like the Raspberry Pi, pcDuino, Intel Galileo, etc.
* [:octocat: PyUserInput](https://github.com/SavinaRoja/PyUserInput) - :star: 924 :fork_and_knife: 234 - A module for cross-platform control of the mouse and keyboard.
* [:octocat: scapy](https://github.com/secdev/scapy) - :star: 5354 :fork_and_knife: 1234 - A brilliant packet manipulation library.
* [:octocat: wifi](https://github.com/rockymeza/wifi) - :star: 266 :fork_and_knife: 137 - A Python library and command line tool for working with WiFi on Linux.

## Image Processing

*Libraries for manipulating images.*

* [:octocat: hmap](https://github.com/rossgoodwin/hmap) - :star: 175 :fork_and_knife: 21 - Image histogram remapping.
* [:earth_americas: imgSeek](https://sourceforge.net/projects/imgseek/) - A project for searching a collection of images using visual similarity.
* [:octocat: nude.py](https://github.com/hhatto/nude.py) - :star: 731 :fork_and_knife: 122 - Nudity detection.
* [:octocat: pagan](https://github.com/daboth/pagan) - :star: 187 :fork_and_knife: 22 - Retro identicon (Avatar) generation based on input string and hash.
* [:octocat: pillow](https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow) - :star: 7490 :fork_and_knife: 1468 - Pillow is the friendly [PIL](http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/) fork.
* [:earth_americas: pyBarcode](https://pythonhosted.org/pyBarcode/) - Create barcodes in Python without needing PIL.
* [:octocat: pygram](https://github.com/ajkumar25/pygram) - :star: 90 :fork_and_knife: 12 - Instagram-like image filters.
* [:octocat: python-qrcode](https://github.com/lincolnloop/python-qrcode) - :star: 2148 :fork_and_knife: 395 - A pure Python QR Code generator.
* [:octocat: Quads](https://github.com/fogleman/Quads) - :star: 938 :fork_and_knife: 105 - Computer art based on quadtrees.
* [:earth_americas: scikit-image](http://scikit-image.org/) - A Python library for (scientific) image processing.
* [:octocat: thumbor](https://github.com/thumbor/thumbor) - :star: 7795 :fork_and_knife: 677 - A smart imaging service. It enables on-demand crop, re-sizing and flipping of images.
* [:octocat: wand](https://github.com/dahlia/wand) - :star: 1003 :fork_and_knife: 184 - Python bindings for [MagickWand](http://www.imagemagick.org/script/magick-wand.php), C API for ImageMagick.

## Implementations

*Implementations of Python.*

* [:octocat: CPython](https://github.com/python/cpython) - :star: 32123 :fork_and_knife: 15242 - **Default, most widely used implementation of the Python programming language written in C.**
* [:earth_americas: Cython](http://cython.org/) - Optimizing Static Compiler for Python.
* [:octocat: CLPython](https://github.com/metawilm/cl-python) - :star: 295 :fork_and_knife: 34 - Implementation of the Python programming language written in Common Lisp.
* [:octocat: Grumpy](https://github.com/google/grumpy) - :star: 10084 :fork_and_knife: 649 - More compiler than interpreter as more powerful CPython2.7 replacement (alpha).
* [:octocat: IronPython](https://github.com/IronLanguages/ironpython3) - :star: 1161 :fork_and_knife: 150 - Implementation of the Python programming language written in C#.
* [:earth_americas: Jython](https://hg.python.org/jython) - Implementation of Python programming language written in Java for the JVM.
* [:octocat: MicroPython](https://github.com/micropython/micropython) - :star: 10725 :fork_and_knife: 3492 - A lean and efficient Python programming language implementation.
* [:earth_americas: Numba](http://numba.pydata.org/) - Python JIT compiler to LLVM aimed at scientific Python.
* [:octocat: PeachPy](https://github.com/Maratyszcza/PeachPy) - :star: 1413 :fork_and_knife: 124 - x86-64 assembler embedded in Python.
* [:octocat: Pyjion](https://github.com/Microsoft/Pyjion) - :star: 1330 :fork_and_knife: 68 - A JIT for Python based upon CoreCLR.
* [:earth_americas: PyPy](https://foss.heptapod.net/pypy/pypy) - A very fast and compliant implementation of the Python language.
* [:octocat: Pyston](https://github.com/dropbox/pyston) - :star: 4523 :fork_and_knife: 306 - A Python implementation using JIT techniques.
* [:octocat: Stackless Python](https://github.com/stackless-dev/stackless) - :star: 598 :fork_and_knife: 41 - An enhanced version of the Python programming language.

## Interactive Interpreter

*Interactive Python interpreters (REPL).*

* [:octocat: bpython](https://github.com/bpython/bpython) - :star: 1511 :fork_and_knife: 174 - A fancy interface to the Python interpreter.
* [:earth_americas: Jupyter Notebook (IPython)](https://jupyter.org) - A rich toolkit to help you make the most out of using Python interactively.
    * [:octocat: awesome-jupyter](https://github.com/markusschanta/awesome-jupyter) - :star: 1717 :fork_and_knife: 223
* [:octocat: ptpython](https://github.com/jonathanslenders/ptpython) - :star: 3670 :fork_and_knife: 205 - Advanced Python REPL built on top of the [python-prompt-toolkit](https://github.com/jonathanslenders/python-prompt-toolkit).

## Internationalization

*Libraries for working with i18n.*

* [:earth_americas: Babel](http://babel.pocoo.org/en/latest/) - An internationalization library for Python.
* [:octocat: PyICU](https://github.com/ovalhub/pyicu) - :star: 114 :fork_and_knife: 46 - A wrapper of International Components for Unicode C++ library ([ICU](http://site.icu-project.org/)).

## Job Scheduler

*Libraries for scheduling jobs.*

* [:earth_americas: APScheduler](http://apscheduler.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) - A light but powerful in-process task scheduler that lets you schedule functions.
* [:octocat: django-schedule](https://github.com/thauber/django-schedule) - :star: 775 :fork_and_knife: 288 - A calendaring app for Django.
* [:earth_americas: doit](http://pydoit.org/) - A task runner and build tool.
* [:octocat: gunnery](https://github.com/gunnery/gunnery) - :star: 715 :fork_and_knife: 76 - Multipurpose task execution tool for distributed systems with web-based interface.
* [:earth_americas: Joblib](https://joblib.readthedocs.io/) - A set of tools to provide lightweight pipelining in Python.
* [:octocat: Plan](https://github.com/fengsp/plan) - :star: 1106 :fork_and_knife: 94 - Writing crontab file in Python like a charm.
* [:octocat: schedule](https://github.com/dbader/schedule) - :star: 7464 :fork_and_knife: 693 - Python job scheduling for humans.
* [:octocat: Spiff](https://github.com/knipknap/SpiffWorkflow) - :star: 889 :fork_and_knife: 211 - A powerful workflow engine implemented in pure Python.
* [:earth_americas: TaskFlow](https://docs.openstack.org/developer/taskflow/) - A Python library that helps to make task execution easy, consistent and reliable.
* [:earth_americas: Airflow](https://airflow.apache.org/) - Airflow is a platform to programmatically author, schedule and monitor workflows.

## Logging

*Libraries for generating and working with logs.*

* [:octocat: Eliot](https://github.com/ScatterHQ/eliot) - :star: 766 :fork_and_knife: 50 - Logging for complex & distributed systems.
* [:earth_americas: logbook](http://logbook.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) - Logging replacement for Python.
* [:earth_americas: logging](https://docs.python.org/3/library/logging.html) - (Python standard library) Logging facility for Python.
* [:octocat: raven](https://github.com/getsentry/raven-python) - :star: 1666 :fork_and_knife: 801 - Python client for Sentry, a log/error tracking, crash reporting and aggregation platform for web applications.

## Machine Learning

*Libraries for Machine Learning. Also see [awesome-machine-learning](https://github.com/josephmisiti/awesome-machine-learning#python).*

* [:octocat: H2O](https://github.com/h2oai/h2o-3) - :star: 4866 :fork_and_knife: 1747 - Open Source Fast Scalable Machine Learning Platform.
* [:octocat: Metrics](https://github.com/benhamner/Metrics) - :star: 1327 :fork_and_knife: 416 - Machine learning evaluation metrics.
* [:octocat: NuPIC](https://github.com/numenta/nupic) - :star: 6100 :fork_and_knife: 1580 - Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing.
* [:earth_americas: scikit-learn](http://scikit-learn.org/) - The most popular Python library for Machine Learning.
* [:earth_americas: Spark ML](http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/ml-guide.html) - [Apache Spark](http://spark.apache.org/)'s scalable Machine Learning library.
* [:octocat: vowpal_porpoise](https://github.com/josephreisinger/vowpal_porpoise) - :star: 157 :fork_and_knife: 30 - A lightweight Python wrapper for [Vowpal Wabbit](https://github.com/JohnLangford/vowpal_wabbit/).
* [:octocat: xgboost](https://github.com/dmlc/xgboost) - :star: 19317 :fork_and_knife: 7581 - A scalable, portable, and distributed gradient boosting library.

## Microsoft Windows

*Python programming on Microsoft Windows.*

* [:earth_americas: Python(x,y)](http://python-xy.github.io/) - Scientific-applications-oriented Python Distribution based on Qt and Spyder.
* [:earth_americas: pythonlibs](http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/) - Unofficial Windows binaries for Python extension packages.
* [:octocat: PythonNet](https://github.com/pythonnet/pythonnet) - :star: 2150 :fork_and_knife: 403 - Python Integration with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR).
* [:octocat: PyWin32](https://github.com/mhammond/pywin32) - :star: 2369 :fork_and_knife: 488 - Python Extensions for Windows.
* [:earth_americas: WinPython](https://winpython.github.io/) - Portable development environment for Windows 7/8.

## Miscellaneous

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

* [:octocat: blinker](https://github.com/jek/blinker) - :star: 1087 :fork_and_knife: 141 - A fast Python in-process signal/event dispatching system.
* [:octocat: boltons](https://github.com/mahmoud/boltons) - :star: 5176 :fork_and_knife: 278 - A set of pure-Python utilities.
* [:octocat: itsdangerous](https://github.com/pallets/itsdangerous) - :star: 2009 :fork_and_knife: 173 - Various helpers to pass trusted data to untrusted environments.
* [:octocat: pluginbase](https://github.com/mitsuhiko/pluginbase) - :star: 886 :fork_and_knife: 132 - A simple but flexible plugin system for Python.
* [:earth_americas: tryton](http://www.tryton.org/) - A general purpose business framework.

## Natural Language Processing

*Libraries for working with human languages.*

- General
    * [:octocat: gensim](https://github.com/RaRe-Technologies/gensim) - :star: 10937 :fork_and_knife: 3770 - Topic Modeling for Humans.
    * [:octocat: langid.py](https://github.com/saffsd/langid.py) - :star: 1609 :fork_and_knife: 263 - Stand-alone language identification system.
    * [:earth_americas: nltk](http://www.nltk.org/) - A leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data.
    * [:octocat: pattern](https://github.com/clips/pattern) - :star: 7443 :fork_and_knife: 1484 - A web mining module.
    * [:octocat: polyglot](https://github.com/aboSamoor/polyglot) - :star: 1618 :fork_and_knife: 279 - Natural language pipeline supporting hundreds of languages.
    * [:octocat: pytext](https://github.com/facebookresearch/pytext) - :star: 5902 :fork_and_knife: 726 - A natural language modeling framework based on PyTorch.
    * [:octocat: PyTorch-NLP](https://github.com/PetrochukM/PyTorch-NLP) - :star: 1731 :fork_and_knife: 206 - A toolkit enabling rapid deep learning NLP prototyping for research.
    * [:earth_americas: spacy](https://spacy.io/) - A library for industrial-strength natural language processing in Python and Cython.
    * [:octocat: Stanza](https://github.com/stanfordnlp/stanza) - :star: 4332 :fork_and_knife: 547 - The Stanford NLP Group's official Python library, supporting 60+ languages.
- Chinese
    * [:octocat: jieba](https://github.com/fxsjy/jieba) - :star: 23369 :fork_and_knife: 5759 - The most popular Chinese text segmentation library.
    * [:octocat: pkuseg-python](https://github.com/lancopku/pkuseg-python) - :star: 4898 :fork_and_knife: 779 - A toolkit for Chinese word segmentation in various domains.
    * [:octocat: snownlp](https://github.com/isnowfy/snownlp) - :star: 4820 :fork_and_knife: 1180 - A library for processing Chinese text.
    * [:octocat: funNLP](https://github.com/fighting41love/funNLP) - :star: 21826 :fork_and_knife: 6603 - A collection of tools and datasets for Chinese NLP.

## Network Virtualization

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

* [:octocat: mininet](https://github.com/mininet/mininet) - :star: 3432 :fork_and_knife: 1383 - A popular network emulator and API written in Python.
* [:octocat: napalm](https://github.com/napalm-automation/napalm) - :star: 1507 :fork_and_knife: 427 - Cross-vendor API to manipulate network devices.
* [:octocat: pox](https://github.com/noxrepo/pox) - :star: 490 :fork_and_knife: 433 - A Python-based SDN control applications, such as OpenFlow SDN controllers.

## News Feed

*Libraries for building user's activities.*

* [:octocat: django-activity-stream](https://github.com/justquick/django-activity-stream) - :star: 1762 :fork_and_knife: 449 - Generating generic activity streams from the actions on your site.
* [:octocat: Stream Framework](https://github.com/tschellenbach/Stream-Framework) - :star: 4333 :fork_and_knife: 534 - Building news feed and notification systems using Cassandra and Redis.

## ORM

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

* Relational Databases
    * [:earth_americas: Django Models](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/models/) - The Django ORM.
    * [:earth_americas: SQLAlchemy](https://www.sqlalchemy.org/) - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper.
        * [:octocat: awesome-sqlalchemy](https://github.com/dahlia/awesome-sqlalchemy) - :star: 2087 :fork_and_knife: 121
    * [:octocat: dataset](https://github.com/pudo/dataset) - :star: 3828 :fork_and_knife: 245 - Store Python dicts in a database - works with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
    * [:octocat: orator](https://github.com/sdispater/orator) - :star: 1094 :fork_and_knife: 145 -  The Orator ORM provides a simple yet beautiful ActiveRecord implementation.
    * [:octocat: orm](https://github.com/encode/orm) - :star: 954 :fork_and_knife: 48 - An async ORM.
    * [:octocat: peewee](https://github.com/coleifer/peewee) - :star: 7638 :fork_and_knife: 1211 - A small, expressive ORM.
    * [:octocat: pony](https://github.com/ponyorm/pony/) - :star: 2223 :fork_and_knife: 172 - ORM that provides a generator-oriented interface to SQL.
    * [:octocat: pydal](https://github.com/web2py/pydal/) - :star: 316 :fork_and_knife: 110 - A pure Python Database Abstraction Layer.
* NoSQL Databases
    * [:octocat: hot-redis](https://github.com/stephenmcd/hot-redis) - :star: 261 :fork_and_knife: 25 - Rich Python data types for Redis.
    * [:octocat: mongoengine](https://github.com/MongoEngine/mongoengine) - :star: 3194 :fork_and_knife: 1100 - A Python Object-Document-Mapper for working with MongoDB.
    * [:octocat: PynamoDB](https://github.com/pynamodb/PynamoDB) - :star: 1274 :fork_and_knife: 316 - A Pythonic interface for [Amazon DynamoDB](https://aws.amazon.com/dynamodb/).
    * [:octocat: redisco](https://github.com/kiddouk/redisco) - :star: 431 :fork_and_knife: 86 - A Python Library for Simple Models and Containers Persisted in Redis.

## Package Management

*Libraries for package and dependency management.*

* [:earth_americas: pip](https://pip.pypa.io/en/stable/) - The package installer for Python.
    * [:earth_americas: PyPI](https://pypi.org/)
    * [:octocat: pip-tools](https://github.com/jazzband/pip-tools) - :star: 4339 :fork_and_knife: 383 - A set of tools to keep your pinned Python dependencies fresh.
* [:octocat: poetry](https://github.com/sdispater/poetry) - :star: 11208 :fork_and_knife: 795 - Python dependency management and packaging made easy.
* [:octocat: conda](https://github.com/conda/conda/) - :star: 3667 :fork_and_knife: 928 - Cross-platform, Python-agnostic binary package manager.

## Package Repositories

*Local PyPI repository server and proxies.*

* [:octocat: warehouse](https://github.com/pypa/warehouse) - :star: 2423 :fork_and_knife: 701 - Next generation Python Package Repository (PyPI).
* [:octocat: bandersnatch](https://github.com/pypa/bandersnatch/) - :star: 179 :fork_and_knife: 73 - PyPI mirroring tool provided by Python Packaging Authority (PyPA).
* [:octocat: devpi](https://github.com/devpi/devpi) - :star: 389 :fork_and_knife: 75 - PyPI server and packaging/testing/release tool.
* [:octocat: localshop](https://github.com/jazzband/localshop) - :star: 360 :fork_and_knife: 113 - Local PyPI server (custom packages and auto-mirroring of pypi).

## Permissions

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

* [:octocat: django-guardian](https://github.com/django-guardian/django-guardian) - :star: 2673 :fork_and_knife: 488 - Implementation of per object permissions for Django 1.2+
* [:octocat: django-rules](https://github.com/dfunckt/django-rules) - :star: 1073 :fork_and_knife: 89 - A tiny but powerful app providing object-level permissions to Django, without requiring a database.

## Processes

*Libraries for starting and communicating with OS processes.*

* [:octocat: delegator.py](https://github.com/amitt001/delegator.py) - :star: 1485 :fork_and_knife: 85 - [Subprocesses](https://docs.python.org/3/library/subprocess.html) for Humans 2.0.
* [:earth_americas: sarge](https://sarge.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) - Yet another wrapper for subprocess.
* [:octocat: sh](https://github.com/amoffat/sh) - :star: 5313 :fork_and_knife: 421 - A full-fledged subprocess replacement for Python.

## Recommender Systems

*Libraries for building recommender systems.*

* [:octocat: annoy](https://github.com/spotify/annoy) - :star: 7185 :fork_and_knife: 787 - Approximate Nearest Neighbors in C++/Python optimized for memory usage.
* [:octocat: fastFM](https://github.com/ibayer/fastFM) - :star: 853 :fork_and_knife: 193 - A library for Factorization Machines.
* [:octocat: implicit](https://github.com/benfred/implicit) - :star: 1974 :fork_and_knife: 438 - A fast Python implementation of collaborative filtering for implicit datasets.
* [:octocat: libffm](https://github.com/guestwalk/libffm) - :star: 1423 :fork_and_knife: 445 - A library for Field-aware Factorization Machine (FFM).
* [:octocat: lightfm](https://github.com/lyst/lightfm) - :star: 3172 :fork_and_knife: 534 - A Python implementation of a number of popular recommendation algorithms.
* [:octocat: spotlight](https://github.com/maciejkula/spotlight) - :star: 2177 :fork_and_knife: 340 - Deep recommender models using PyTorch.
* [:octocat: Surprise](https://github.com/NicolasHug/Surprise) - :star: 4123 :fork_and_knife: 765 - A scikit for building and analyzing recommender systems.
* [:octocat: tensorrec](https://github.com/jfkirk/tensorrec) - :star: 1059 :fork_and_knife: 199 - A Recommendation Engine Framework in TensorFlow.

## Refactoring

*Refactoring tools and libraries for Python*

 * [:earth_americas: Bicycle Repair Man](http://bicyclerepair.sourceforge.net/) - Bicycle Repair Man, a refactoring tool for Python.
 * [:earth_americas: Bowler](https://pybowler.io/) - Safe code refactoring for modern Python.
 * [:octocat: Rope](https://github.com/python-rope/rope) - :star: 936 :fork_and_knife: 114 -  Rope is a python refactoring library.

## RESTful API

*Libraries for building RESTful APIs.*

* Django
    * [:earth_americas: django-rest-framework](http://www.django-rest-framework.org/) - A powerful and flexible toolkit to build web APIs.
    * [:earth_americas: django-tastypie](http://tastypieapi.org/) - Creating delicious APIs for Django apps.
* Flask
    * [:octocat: eve](https://github.com/pyeve/eve) - :star: 6120 :fork_and_knife: 709 - REST API framework powered by Flask, MongoDB and good intentions.
    * [:octocat: flask-api](https://github.com/flask-api/flask-api) - :star: 1169 :fork_and_knife: 135 - Browsable Web APIs for Flask.
    * [:octocat: flask-restful](https://github.com/flask-restful/flask-restful) - :star: 5623 :fork_and_knife: 889 - Quickly building REST APIs for Flask.
* Pyramid
    * [:octocat: cornice](https://github.com/Cornices/cornice) - :star: 359 :fork_and_knife: 146 - A RESTful framework for Pyramid.
* Framework agnostic
    * [:octocat: apistar](https://github.com/encode/apistar) - :star: 5474 :fork_and_knife: 429 - A smart Web API framework, designed for Python 3.
    * [:octocat: falcon](https://github.com/falconry/falcon) - :star: 7843 :fork_and_knife: 791 - A high-performance framework for building cloud APIs and web app backends.
    * [:octocat: fastapi](https://github.com/tiangolo/fastapi) - :star: 15970 :fork_and_knife: 1083 - A modern, fast, web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.
    * [:octocat: hug](https://github.com/hugapi/hug) - :star: 6270 :fork_and_knife: 362 - A Python 3 framework for cleanly exposing APIs.
    * [:octocat: sandman2](https://github.com/jeffknupp/sandman2) - :star: 1520 :fork_and_knife: 173 - Automated REST APIs for existing database-driven systems.
    * [:octocat: sanic](https://github.com/huge-success/sanic) - :star: 13886 :fork_and_knife: 1271 - A Python 3.6+ web server and web framework that's written to go fast.
    * [:earth_americas: vibora](https://vibora.io/) - Fast, efficient and asynchronous Web framework inspired by Flask.

## Robotics

*Libraries for robotics.*

* [:octocat: PythonRobotics](https://github.com/AtsushiSakai/PythonRobotics) - :star: 9457 :fork_and_knife: 3070 - This is a compilation of various robotics algorithms with visualizations.
* [:earth_americas: rospy](http://wiki.ros.org/rospy) - This is a library for ROS (Robot Operating System).

## RPC Servers

*RPC-compatible servers.*

* [:octocat: zeroRPC](https://github.com/0rpc/zerorpc-python) - :star: 2632 :fork_and_knife: 341 - zerorpc is a flexible RPC implementation based on [ZeroMQ](http://zeromq.org/) and [MessagePack](http://msgpack.org/).
* [:octocat: RPyC](https://github.com/tomerfiliba/rpyc) (Remote Python Call) - :star: 872 :fork_and_knife: 181 - A transparent and symmetric RPC library for Python

## Science

*Libraries for scientific computing. Also see [Python-for-Scientists](https://github.com/TomNicholas/Python-for-Scientists).*

* [:earth_americas: astropy](http://www.astropy.org/) - A community Python library for Astronomy.
* [:octocat: bcbio-nextgen](https://github.com/chapmanb/bcbio-nextgen) - :star: 746 :fork_and_knife: 327 - Providing best-practice pipelines for fully automated high throughput sequencing analysis.
* [:octocat: bccb](https://github.com/chapmanb/bcbb) - :star: 471 :fork_and_knife: 211 - Collection of useful code related to biological analysis.
* [:earth_americas: Biopython](http://biopython.org/wiki/Main_Page) - Biopython is a set of freely available tools for biological computation.
* [:earth_americas: cclib](http://cclib.github.io/) - A library for parsing and interpreting the results of computational chemistry packages.
* [:earth_americas: Colour](http://colour-science.org/) - Implementing a comprehensive number of colour theory transformations and algorithms.
* [:octocat: Karate Club](https://github.com/benedekrozemberczki/karateclub) - :star: 813 :fork_and_knife: 83 - Unsupervised machine learning toolbox for graph structured data.
* [:earth_americas: NetworkX](https://networkx.github.io/) - A high-productivity software for complex networks.
* [:earth_americas: NIPY](http://nipy.org) - A collection of neuroimaging toolkits.
* [:earth_americas: NumPy](http://www.numpy.org/) - A fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.
* [:earth_americas: Open Babel](http://openbabel.org/wiki/Main_Page) - A chemical toolbox designed to speak the many languages of chemical data.
* [:octocat: ObsPy](https://github.com/obspy/obspy/wiki/) - A Python toolbox for seismology.
* [:earth_americas: PyDy](http://www.pydy.org/) - Short for Python Dynamics, used to assist with workflow in the modeling of dynamic motion.
* [:octocat: PyMC](https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc3) - :star: 5112 :fork_and_knife: 1245 - Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.
* [:earth_americas: QuTiP](http://qutip.org/) - Quantum Toolbox in Python.
* [:earth_americas: RDKit](http://www.rdkit.org/) - Cheminformatics and Machine Learning Software.
* [:earth_americas: SciPy](https://www.scipy.org/) - A Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.
* [:octocat: statsmodels](https://github.com/statsmodels/statsmodels) - :star: 5254 :fork_and_knife: 1983 - Statistical modeling and econometrics in Python.
* [:octocat: SymPy](https://github.com/sympy/sympy) - :star: 7101 :fork_and_knife: 3047 - A Python library for symbolic mathematics.
* [:octocat: Zipline](https://github.com/quantopian/zipline) - :star: 11425 :fork_and_knife: 3328 - A Pythonic algorithmic trading library.
* [:earth_americas: SimPy](https://bitbucket.org/simpy/simpy) -  A process-based discrete-event simulation framework.

## Search

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

* [:earth_americas: elasticsearch-py](https://www.elastic.co/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/python-api/current/index.html) - The official low-level Python client for [Elasticsearch](https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch).
* [:octocat: elasticsearch-dsl-py](https://github.com/elastic/elasticsearch-dsl-py) - :star: 2933 :fork_and_knife: 636 - The official high-level Python client for Elasticsearch.
* [:octocat: django-haystack](https://github.com/django-haystack/django-haystack) - :star: 2994 :fork_and_knife: 1204 - Modular search for Django.
* [:octocat: pysolr](https://github.com/django-haystack/pysolr) - :star: 553 :fork_and_knife: 301 - A lightweight Python wrapper for [Apache Solr](https://lucene.apache.org/solr/).
* [:earth_americas: whoosh](http://whoosh.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) - A fast, pure Python search engine library.

## Serialization

*Libraries for serializing complex data types*

* [:octocat: marshmallow](https://github.com/marshmallow-code/marshmallow) - :star: 4802 :fork_and_knife: 503 - A lightweight library for converting complex objects to and from simple Python datatypes.
* [:octocat: pysimdjson](https://github.com/TkTech/pysimdjson) - :star: 273 :fork_and_knife: 20 - A Python bindings for [simdjson](https://github.com/lemire/simdjson).
* [:octocat: python-rapidjson](https://github.com/python-rapidjson/python-rapidjson) - :star: 384 :fork_and_knife: 31 - A Python wrapper around [RapidJSON](https://github.com/Tencent/rapidjson).
* [:octocat: ultrajson](https://github.com/esnme/ultrajson) - :star: 2865 :fork_and_knife: 290 - A fast JSON decoder and encoder written in C with Python bindings.

## Serverless Frameworks

*Frameworks for developing serverless Python code.*

* [:octocat: python-lambda](https://github.com/nficano/python-lambda) - :star: 1142 :fork_and_knife: 199 - A toolkit for developing and deploying Python code in AWS Lambda.
* [:octocat: Zappa](https://github.com/Miserlou/Zappa) - :star: 10751 :fork_and_knife: 1173 - A tool for deploying WSGI applications on AWS Lambda and API Gateway.

## Specific Formats Processing

*Libraries for parsing and manipulating specific text formats.*

* General
    * [:octocat: tablib](https://github.com/jazzband/tablib) - :star: 3717 :fork_and_knife: 545 - A module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML.
* Office
    * [:earth_americas: openpyxl](https://openpyxl.readthedocs.io/en/stable/) - A library for reading and writing Excel 2010 xlsx/xlsm/xltx/xltm files.
    * [:octocat: pyexcel](https://github.com/pyexcel/pyexcel) - :star: 813 :fork_and_knife: 128 - Providing one API for reading, manipulating and writing csv, ods, xls, xlsx and xlsm files.
    * [:octocat: python-docx](https://github.com/python-openxml/python-docx) - :star: 2239 :fork_and_knife: 647 - Reads, queries and modifies Microsoft Word 2007/2008 docx files.
    * [:octocat: python-pptx](https://github.com/scanny/python-pptx) - :star: 1074 :fork_and_knife: 273 - Python library for creating and updating PowerPoint (.pptx) files.
    * [:octocat: unoconv](https://github.com/unoconv/unoconv) - :star: 1898 :fork_and_knife: 365 - Convert between any document format supported by LibreOffice/OpenOffice.
    * [:octocat: XlsxWriter](https://github.com/jmcnamara/XlsxWriter) - :star: 2282 :fork_and_knife: 478 - A Python module for creating Excel .xlsx files.
    * [:octocat: xlwings](https://github.com/ZoomerAnalytics/xlwings) - :star: 1735 :fork_and_knife: 332 - A BSD-licensed library that makes it easy to call Python from Excel and vice versa.
    * [:octocat: xlwt](https://github.com/python-excel/xlwt) / [xlrd](https://github.com/python-excel/xlrd) - :star: 952 :fork_and_knife: 270 - Writing and reading data and formatting information from Excel files.
* PDF
    * [:octocat: PDFMiner](https://github.com/euske/pdfminer) - :star: 4293 :fork_and_knife: 1000 - A tool for extracting information from PDF documents.
    * [:octocat: PyPDF2](https://github.com/mstamy2/PyPDF2) - :star: 3191 :fork_and_knife: 816 - A library capable of splitting, merging and transforming PDF pages.
    * [:earth_americas: ReportLab](https://www.reportlab.com/opensource/) - Allowing Rapid creation of rich PDF documents.
* Markdown
    * [:octocat: Mistune](https://github.com/lepture/mistune) - :star: 1797 :fork_and_knife: 186 - Fastest and full featured pure Python parsers of Markdown.
    * [:octocat: Python-Markdown](https://github.com/waylan/Python-Markdown) - :star: 2179 :fork_and_knife: 525 - A Python implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown.
* YAML
    * [:earth_americas: PyYAML](http://pyyaml.org/) - YAML implementations for Python.
* CSV
    * [:octocat: csvkit](https://github.com/wireservice/csvkit) - :star: 4284 :fork_and_knife: 529 - Utilities for converting to and working with CSV.
* Archive
    * [:octocat: unp](https://github.com/mitsuhiko/unp) - :star: 365 :fork_and_knife: 62 - A command line tool that can unpack archives easily.

## Static Site Generator

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

* [:octocat: mkdocs](https://github.com/mkdocs/mkdocs/) - :star: 10307 :fork_and_knife: 1524 - Markdown friendly documentation generator.
* [:octocat: pelican](https://github.com/getpelican/pelican) - :star: 9720 :fork_and_knife: 1644 - Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax.
* [:octocat: lektor](https://github.com/lektor/lektor) - :star: 3300 :fork_and_knife: 264 - An easy to use static CMS and blog engine.
* [:octocat: nikola](https://github.com/getnikola/nikola) - :star: 1915 :fork_and_knife: 377 - A static website and blog generator.

## Tagging

*Libraries for tagging items.*

* [:octocat: django-taggit](https://github.com/jazzband/django-taggit) - :star: 2420 :fork_and_knife: 539 - Simple tagging for Django.

## Task Queues

*Libraries for working with task queues.*

* [:earth_americas: celery](http://www.celeryproject.org/) - An asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.
* [:octocat: huey](https://github.com/coleifer/huey) - :star: 3014 :fork_and_knife: 277 - Little multi-threaded task queue.
* [:octocat: mrq](https://github.com/pricingassistant/mrq) - :star: 811 :fork_and_knife: 108 - A distributed worker task queue in Python using Redis & gevent.
* [:octocat: rq](https://github.com/rq/rq) - :star: 7096 :fork_and_knife: 1141 - Simple job queues for Python.

## Template Engine

*Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.*

* [:octocat: Jinja2](https://github.com/pallets/jinja) - :star: 7115 :fork_and_knife: 1315 - A modern and designer friendly templating language.
* [:earth_americas: Genshi](https://genshi.edgewall.org/) - Python templating toolkit for generation of web-aware output.
* [:earth_americas: Mako](http://www.makotemplates.org/) - Hyperfast and lightweight templating for the Python platform.

## Testing

*Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.*

* Testing Frameworks
    * [:earth_americas: pytest](https://docs.pytest.org/en/latest/) - A mature full-featured Python testing tool.
    * [:octocat: hypothesis](https://github.com/HypothesisWorks/hypothesis) - :star: 4424 :fork_and_knife: 405 - Hypothesis is an advanced Quickcheck style property based testing library.
    * [:octocat: nose2](https://github.com/nose-devs/nose2) - :star: 636 :fork_and_knife: 129 - The successor to `nose`, based on `unittest2.
    * [:octocat: Robot Framework](https://github.com/robotframework/robotframework) - :star: 4752 :fork_and_knife: 1434 - A generic test automation framework.
    * [:earth_americas: unittest](https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.html) - (Python standard library) Unit testing framework.
* Test Runners
    * [:octocat: green](https://github.com/CleanCut/green) - :star: 651 :fork_and_knife: 71 - A clean, colorful test runner.
    * [:earth_americas: mamba](http://nestorsalceda.github.io/mamba/) - The definitive testing tool for Python. Born under the banner of BDD.
    * [:earth_americas: tox](https://tox.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) - Auto builds and tests distributions in multiple Python versions
* GUI / Web Testing
    * [:octocat: locust](https://github.com/locustio/locust) - :star: 13200 :fork_and_knife: 1847 - Scalable user load testing tool written in Python.
    * [:octocat: PyAutoGUI](https://github.com/asweigart/pyautogui) - :star: 4006 :fork_and_knife: 562 - PyAutoGUI is a cross-platform GUI automation Python module for human beings.
    * [:earth_americas: Selenium](https://pypi.org/project/selenium/) - Python bindings for [Selenium](http://www.seleniumhq.org/) WebDriver.
    * [:octocat: sixpack](https://github.com/seatgeek/sixpack) - :star: 1638 :fork_and_knife: 187 - A language-agnostic A/B Testing framework.
    * [:octocat: splinter](https://github.com/cobrateam/splinter) - :star: 2229 :fork_and_knife: 463 - Open source tool for testing web applications.
* Mock
    * [:earth_americas: mock](https://docs.python.org/3/library/unittest.mock.html) - (Python standard library) A mocking and patching library.
    * [:earth_americas: doublex](https://pypi.org/project/doublex/) - Powerful test doubles framework for Python.
    * [:octocat: freezegun](https://github.com/spulec/freezegun) - :star: 2456 :fork_and_knife: 182 - Travel through time by mocking the datetime module.
    * [:octocat: httmock](https://github.com/patrys/httmock) - :star: 406 :fork_and_knife: 48 - A mocking library for requests for Python 2.6+ and 3.2+.
    * [:octocat: httpretty](https://github.com/gabrielfalcao/HTTPretty) - :star: 1800 :fork_and_knife: 243 - HTTP request mock tool for Python.
    * [:octocat: mocket](https://github.com/mindflayer/python-mocket) - :star: 185 :fork_and_knife: 28 - A socket mock framework with gevent/asyncio/SSL support.
    * [:octocat: responses](https://github.com/getsentry/responses) - :star: 2814 :fork_and_knife: 234 - A utility library for mocking out the requests Python library.
    * [:octocat: VCR.py](https://github.com/kevin1024/vcrpy) - :star: 1726 :fork_and_knife: 242 - Record and replay HTTP interactions on your tests.
* Object Factories
    * [:octocat: factory_boy](https://github.com/FactoryBoy/factory_boy) - :star: 2199 :fork_and_knife: 287 - A test fixtures replacement for Python.
    * [:octocat: mixer](https://github.com/klen/mixer) - :star: 692 :fork_and_knife: 70 - Another fixtures replacement. Supported Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Peewee and etc.
    * [:octocat: model_mommy](https://github.com/vandersonmota/model_mommy) - :star: 939 :fork_and_knife: 159 - Creating random fixtures for testing in Django.
* Code Coverage
    * [:earth_americas: coverage](https://pypi.org/project/coverage/) - Code coverage measurement.
* Fake Data
    * [:octocat: mimesis](https://github.com/lk-geimfari/mimesis) - :star: 2885 :fork_and_knife: 251 - is a Python library that help you generate fake data.
    * [:octocat: fake2db](https://github.com/emirozer/fake2db) - :star: 2016 :fork_and_knife: 112 - Fake database generator.
    * [:octocat: faker](https://github.com/joke2k/faker) - :star: 10070 :fork_and_knife: 1177 - A Python package that generates fake data.
    * [:earth_americas: radar](https://pypi.org/project/radar/) - Generate random datetime / time.

## Text Processing

*Libraries for parsing and manipulating plain texts.*

* General
    * [:octocat: chardet](https://github.com/chardet/chardet) - :star: 1334 :fork_and_knife: 188 - Python 2/3 compatible character encoding detector.
    * [:earth_americas: difflib](https://docs.python.org/3/library/difflib.html) - (Python standard library) Helpers for computing deltas.
    * [:octocat: ftfy](https://github.com/LuminosoInsight/python-ftfy) - :star: 2714 :fork_and_knife: 94 - Makes Unicode text less broken and more consistent automagically.
    * [:octocat: fuzzywuzzy](https://github.com/seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy) - :star: 7038 :fork_and_knife: 754 - Fuzzy String Matching.
    * [:octocat: Levenshtein](https://github.com/ztane/python-Levenshtein/) - :star: 821 :fork_and_knife: 118 - Fast computation of Levenshtein distance and string similarity.
    * [:octocat: pangu.py](https://github.com/vinta/pangu.py) - :star: 147 :fork_and_knife: 21 - Paranoid text spacing.
    * [:octocat: pyfiglet](https://github.com/pwaller/pyfiglet) - :star: 659 :fork_and_knife: 69 - An implementation of figlet written in Python.
    * [:octocat: pypinyin](https://github.com/mozillazg/python-pinyin) - :star: 2661 :fork_and_knife: 433 - Convert Chinese hanzi (漢字) to pinyin (拼音).
    * [:octocat: textdistance](https://github.com/orsinium/textdistance) - :star: 1699 :fork_and_knife: 151 - Compute distance between sequences with 30+ algorithms.
    * [:earth_americas: unidecode](https://pypi.org/project/Unidecode/) - ASCII transliterations of Unicode text.
* Slugify
    * [:octocat: awesome-slugify](https://github.com/dimka665/awesome-slugify) - :star: 446 :fork_and_knife: 37 - A Python slugify library that can preserve unicode.
    * [:octocat: python-slugify](https://github.com/un33k/python-slugify) - :star: 864 :fork_and_knife: 76 - A Python slugify library that translates unicode to ASCII.
    * [:octocat: unicode-slugify](https://github.com/mozilla/unicode-slugify) - :star: 293 :fork_and_knife: 54 - A slugifier that generates unicode slugs with Django as a dependency.
* Unique identifiers
    * [:octocat: hashids](https://github.com/davidaurelio/hashids-python) - :star: 1087 :fork_and_knife: 82 - Implementation of [hashids](http://hashids.org) in Python.
    * [:octocat: shortuuid](https://github.com/skorokithakis/shortuuid) - :star: 1293 :fork_and_knife: 83 - A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs.
* Parser
    * [:octocat: ply](https://github.com/dabeaz/ply) - :star: 1679 :fork_and_knife: 291 - Implementation of lex and yacc parsing tools for Python.
    * [:earth_americas: pygments](http://pygments.org/) - A generic syntax highlighter.
    * [:octocat: pyparsing](https://github.com/pyparsing/pyparsing) - :star: 763 :fork_and_knife: 128 - A general purpose framework for generating parsers.
    * [:octocat: python-nameparser](https://github.com/derek73/python-nameparser) - :star: 413 :fork_and_knife: 71 - Parsing human names into their individual components.
    * [:octocat: python-phonenumbers](https://github.com/daviddrysdale/python-phonenumbers) - :star: 2487 :fork_and_knife: 305 - Parsing, formatting, storing and validating international phone numbers.
    * [:octocat: python-user-agents](https://github.com/selwin/python-user-agents) - :star: 1041 :fork_and_knife: 175 - Browser user agent parser.
    * [:octocat: sqlparse](https://github.com/andialbrecht/sqlparse) - :star: 2097 :fork_and_knife: 439 - A non-validating SQL parser.

## Third-party APIs

*Libraries for accessing third party services APIs. Also see [List of Python API Wrappers and Libraries](https://github.com/realpython/list-of-python-api-wrappers).*

* [:earth_americas: apache-libcloud](https://libcloud.apache.org/) - One Python library for all clouds.
* [:octocat: boto3](https://github.com/boto/boto3) - :star: 5553 :fork_and_knife: 1190 - Python interface to Amazon Web Services.
* [:octocat: django-wordpress](https://github.com/istrategylabs/django-wordpress) - :star: 312 :fork_and_knife: 81 - WordPress models and views for Django.
* [:octocat: facebook-sdk](https://github.com/mobolic/facebook-sdk) - :star: 2520 :fork_and_knife: 922 - Facebook Platform Python SDK.
* [:octocat: google-api-python-client](https://github.com/google/google-api-python-client) - :star: 3806 :fork_and_knife: 1632 - Google APIs Client Library for Python.
* [:octocat: gspread](https://github.com/burnash/gspread) - :star: 4775 :fork_and_knife: 730 - Google Spreadsheets Python API.
* [:octocat: twython](https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/twython) - :star: 1719 :fork_and_knife: 396 - A Python wrapper for the Twitter API.

## URL Manipulation

*Libraries for parsing URLs.*

* [:octocat: furl](https://github.com/gruns/furl) - :star: 1838 :fork_and_knife: 111 - A small Python library that makes parsing and manipulating URLs easy.
* [:octocat: purl](https://github.com/codeinthehole/purl) - :star: 246 :fork_and_knife: 32 - A simple, immutable URL class with a clean API for interrogation and manipulation.
* [:octocat: pyshorteners](https://github.com/ellisonleao/pyshorteners) - :star: 260 :fork_and_knife: 48 - A pure Python URL shortening lib.
* [:octocat: webargs](https://github.com/marshmallow-code/webargs) - :star: 1038 :fork_and_knife: 137 - A friendly library for parsing HTTP request arguments with built-in support for popular web frameworks.

## Video

*Libraries for manipulating video and GIFs.*

* [:octocat: vidgear](https://github.com/abhiTronix/vidgear) - :star: 1279 :fork_and_knife: 96 - Most Powerful multi-threaded Video Processing framework.
* [:earth_americas: moviepy](https://zulko.github.io/moviepy/) - A module for script-based movie editing with many formats, including animated GIFs.
* [:octocat: scikit-video](https://github.com/aizvorski/scikit-video) - :star: 99 :fork_and_knife: 23 - Video processing routines for SciPy.

## Web Asset Management

*Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.*

* [:octocat: django-compressor](https://github.com/django-compressor/django-compressor) - :star: 2343 :fork_and_knife: 556 - Compresses linked and inline JavaScript or CSS into a single cached file.
* [:octocat: django-pipeline](https://github.com/jazzband/django-pipeline) - :star: 1370 :fork_and_knife: 342 - An asset packaging library for Django.
* [:octocat: django-storages](https://github.com/jschneier/django-storages) - :star: 1620 :fork_and_knife: 631 - A collection of custom storage back ends for Django.
* [:earth_americas: fanstatic](http://www.fanstatic.org/en/latest/) - Packages, optimizes, and serves static file dependencies as Python packages.
* [:earth_americas: fileconveyor](http://wimleers.com/fileconveyor) - A daemon to detect and sync files to CDNs, S3 and FTP.
* [:octocat: flask-assets](https://github.com/miracle2k/flask-assets) - :star: 400 :fork_and_knife: 88 - Helps you integrate webassets into your Flask app.
* [:octocat: webassets](https://github.com/miracle2k/webassets) - :star: 882 :fork_and_knife: 252 - Bundles, optimizes, and manages unique cache-busting URLs for static resources.

## Web Content Extracting

*Libraries for extracting web contents.*

* [:octocat: html2text](https://github.com/Alir3z4/html2text) - :star: 944 :fork_and_knife: 171 - Convert HTML to Markdown-formatted text.
* [:octocat: lassie](https://github.com/michaelhelmick/lassie) - :star: 503 :fork_and_knife: 39 - Web Content Retrieval for Humans.
* [:octocat: micawber](https://github.com/coleifer/micawber) - :star: 496 :fork_and_knife: 73 - A small library for extracting rich content from URLs.
* [:octocat: newspaper](https://github.com/codelucas/newspaper) - :star: 9775 :fork_and_knife: 1618 - News extraction, article extraction and content curation in Python.
* [:octocat: python-readability](https://github.com/buriy/python-readability) - :star: 1826 :fork_and_knife: 310 - Fast Python port of arc90's readability tool.
* [:octocat: requests-html](https://github.com/psf/requests-html) - :star: 10993 :fork_and_knife: 710 - Pythonic HTML Parsing for Humans.
* [:octocat: sumy](https://github.com/miso-belica/sumy) - :star: 2301 :fork_and_knife: 416 - A module for automatic summarization of text documents and HTML pages.
* [:octocat: textract](https://github.com/deanmalmgren/textract) - :star: 2829 :fork_and_knife: 400 - Extract text from any document, Word, PowerPoint, PDFs, etc.
* [:octocat: toapi](https://github.com/gaojiuli/toapi) - :star: 3024 :fork_and_knife: 212 - Every web site provides APIs.

## Web Crawling

*Libraries to automate web scraping.*

* [:octocat: cola](https://github.com/chineking/cola) - :star: 1369 :fork_and_knife: 542 - A distributed crawling framework.
* [:earth_americas: feedparser](https://pythonhosted.org/feedparser/) - Universal feed parser.
* [:octocat: grab](https://github.com/lorien/grab) - :star: 1943 :fork_and_knife: 244 - Site scraping framework.
* [:octocat: MechanicalSoup](https://github.com/MechanicalSoup/MechanicalSoup) - :star: 3507 :fork_and_knife: 310 - A Python library for automating interaction with websites.
* [:octocat: pyspider](https://github.com/binux/pyspider) - :star: 14405 :fork_and_knife: 3499 - A powerful spider system.
* [:octocat: robobrowser](https://github.com/jmcarp/robobrowser) - :star: 3459 :fork_and_knife: 317 - A simple, Pythonic library for browsing the web without a standalone web browser.
* [:earth_americas: scrapy](https://scrapy.org/) - A fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework.
* [:octocat: portia](https://github.com/scrapinghub/portia) - :star: 7785 :fork_and_knife: 1259 - Visual scraping for Scrapy.

## Web Frameworks

*Traditional full stack web frameworks. Also see [RESTful API](https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python#restful-api).*

* Synchronous
    * [:earth_americas: Django](https://www.djangoproject.com/) - The most popular web framework in Python.
        * [:octocat: awesome-django](https://github.com/wsvincent/awesome-django) - :star: 2278 :fork_and_knife: 445
        * [:octocat: awesome-django](https://github.com/shahraizali/awesome-django) - :star: 383 :fork_and_knife: 72
    * [:earth_americas: Flask](http://flask.pocoo.org/) - A microframework for Python.
        * [:octocat: awesome-flask](https://github.com/humiaozuzu/awesome-flask) - :star: 8898 :fork_and_knife: 1338
    * [:earth_americas: Pyramid](https://pylonsproject.org/) - A small, fast, down-to-earth, open source Python web framework.
        * [:octocat: awesome-pyramid](https://github.com/uralbash/awesome-pyramid) - :star: 486 :fork_and_knife: 54
    * [:octocat: Masonite](https://github.com/MasoniteFramework/masonite) - :star: 1407 :fork_and_knife: 88 - The modern and developer centric Python web framework.
* Asynchronous
    * [:earth_americas: Tornado](http://www.tornadoweb.org/en/latest/) - A web framework and asynchronous networking library.

## WebSocket

*Libraries for working with WebSocket.*

* [:octocat: autobahn-python](https://github.com/crossbario/autobahn-python) - :star: 2183 :fork_and_knife: 617 - WebSocket & WAMP for Python on Twisted and [asyncio](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html).
* [:octocat: channels](https://github.com/django/channels) - :star: 4436 :fork_and_knife: 603 - Developer-friendly asynchrony for Django.
* [:octocat: websockets](https://github.com/aaugustin/websockets) - :star: 2767 :fork_and_knife: 323 - A library for building WebSocket servers and clients with a focus on correctness and simplicity.

## WSGI Servers

*WSGI-compatible web servers.*

* [:octocat: bjoern](https://github.com/jonashaag/bjoern) - :star: 2357 :fork_and_knife: 172 - Asynchronous, very fast and written in C.
* [:octocat: gunicorn](https://github.com/benoitc/gunicorn) - :star: 6940 :fork_and_knife: 1296 - Pre-forked, partly written in C.
* [:earth_americas: uWSGI](https://uwsgi-docs.readthedocs.io/en/latest/) - A project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services, written in C.
* [:octocat: waitress](https://github.com/Pylons/waitress) - :star: 777 :fork_and_knife: 110 - Multi-threaded, powers Pyramid.
* [:octocat: werkzeug](https://github.com/pallets/werkzeug) - :star: 5356 :fork_and_knife: 1459 - A WSGI utility library for Python that powers Flask and can easily be embedded into your own projects.

# Resources

Where to discover learning resources or new Python libraries.

## Books

- [Fluent Python](https://www.oreilly.com/library/view/fluent-python/9781491946237/)

## Websites

* Tutorials
    * [:earth_americas: Full Stack Python](https://www.fullstackpython.com/)
    * [:earth_americas: Python Cheatsheet](https://www.pythoncheatsheet.org/)
    * [:earth_americas: Real Python](https://realpython.com)
    * [:earth_americas: The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python](https://docs.python-guide.org/)
* Libraries
    * [:earth_americas: Awesome Python @LibHunt](https://python.libhunt.com/)
* Others
    * [:earth_americas: Python ZEEF](https://python.zeef.com/alan.richmond)
    * [:earth_americas: Pythonic News](https://news.python.sc/)

## Newsletters

* [:earth_americas: Awesome Python Newsletter](http://python.libhunt.com/newsletter)
* [:earth_americas: Pycoder's Weekly](http://pycoders.com/)
* [:earth_americas: Python Weekly](http://www.pythonweekly.com/)
* [:earth_americas: Python Tricks](https://realpython.com/python-tricks/)

## Podcasts

* [:earth_americas: Django Chat](https://djangochat.com/)
* [:earth_americas: Podcast.\_\_init__](https://podcastinit.com/)
* [:earth_americas: Python Bytes](https://pythonbytes.fm)
* [:earth_americas: Running in Production](https://runninginproduction.com/)
* [:earth_americas: Talk Python To Me](https://talkpython.fm/)
* [:earth_americas: Test and Code](https://testandcode.com/)
* [:earth_americas: The Real Python Podcast](https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/)

# Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome!

If you find out any repo has been outdate or its link has not valid anymore, please open a pull request. I will merge it soon.

If you want to add a new repo, please go to [awesome-python](https://github.com/vinta/awesome-python) and create a pull request first.