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Awesome Python Awesome

A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources.

Inspired by awesome-php.

Admin Panels

Libraries for administrative interfaces.

  •   5616 ajenti - The admin panel your servers deserve.
  •   3792 django-xadmin - Drop-in replacement of Django admin comes with lots of goodies.
  •   3636 flower - Real-time monitor and web admin for Celery.
  •   3591 flask-admin - Simple and extensible administrative interface framework for Flask.
  •   1751 django-suit - Alternative Django Admin-Interface (free only for Non-commercial use).
  •   1243 wooey - A Django app which creates automatic web UIs for Python scripts.
  •    737 django-grappelli - A jazzy skin for the Django Admin-Interface.

Algorithms and Design Patterns

Python implementation of algorithms and design patterns.

  •  20473 python-patterns - A collection of design patterns in Python.
  •  14929 algorithms - Minimal examples of data structures and algorithms in Python.
  •   8751 sortedcontainers - Fast, pure-Python implementation of SortedList, SortedDict, and SortedSet types.
  •    782 PyPattyrn - A simple yet effective library for implementing common design patterns.

Audio

Libraries for manipulating audio and its metadata.

  • Audio
    •   4446 dejavu - Audio fingerprinting and recognition.
    •   3504 pydub - Manipulate audio with a simple and easy high level interface.
    •   2357 pyAudioAnalysis - Python Audio Analysis Library: Feature Extraction, Classification, Segmentation and Applications
    •    261 audioread - Cross-library (GStreamer + Core Audio + MAD + FFmpeg) audio decoding.
    •    243 TimeSide - Open web audio processing framework.
    •      0 mingus - An advanced music theory and notation package with MIDI file and playback support.
  • Metadata
    •   8670 beets - A music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger.
    •    441 mutagen - A Python module to handle audio metadata.
    •    337 tinytag - A library for reading music meta data of MP3, OGG, FLAC and Wave files.
    •    152 eyeD3 - A tool for working with audio files, specifically MP3 files containing ID3 metadata.

Authentication

Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.

  • OAuth
    •   4561 django-allauth - Authentication app for Django that "just works."
    •   2853 python-oauth2 - A fully tested, abstract interface to creating OAuth clients and servers.
    •   2774 python-social-auth - An easy-to-setup social authentication mechanism.
    •   1777 oauthlib - A generic and thorough implementation of the OAuth request-signing logic.
    •   1588 django-oauth-toolkit - OAuth 2 goodies for Django.
    •   1040 authlib - JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption draft implementation.
  • JWT
    •   2674 pyjwt - JSON Web Token implementation in Python.
    •    519 python-jose - A JOSE implementation in Python.
    •    156 python-jwt - A module for generating and verifying JSON Web Tokens.

Build Tools

Compile software from source code.

  •   3080 PlatformIO - A console tool to build code with different development platforms.
  •   1093 pybuilder - A continuous build tool written in pure Python.
  •    483 SCons - A software construction tool.
  •    441 buildout - A build system for creating, assembling and deploying applications from multiple parts.
  •      0 BitBake - A make-like build tool for embedded Linux.

Built-in Classes Enhancement

Libraries for enhancing Python built-in classes.

  •  24142 dataclasses - (Python standard library) Data classes.
  •   2526 attrs - Replacement for __init__, __eq__, __repr__, etc. boilerplate in class definitions.
  •   1206 Box - Python dictionaries with advanced dot notation access.
  •    422 bidict - Efficient, Pythonic bidirectional map data structures and related functionality..
  •     62 DottedDict - A library that provides a method of accessing lists and dicts with a dotted path notation.

CMS

Content Management Systems.

  •   7171 wagtail - A Django content management system.
  •   3800 mezzanine - A powerful, consistent, and flexible content management platform.
  •   2041 quokka - Flexible, extensible, small CMS powered by Flask and MongoDB.
  •    757 feincms - One of the most advanced Content Management Systems built on Django.
  •    332 Kotti - A high-level, Pythonic web application framework built on Pyramid.
  •    118 django-cms - An Open source enterprise CMS based on the Django.
  •      0 plone - A CMS built on top of the open source application server Zope.

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

  •   2156 HermesCache - Python caching library with tag-based invalidation and dogpile effect prevention.
  •   1038 django-cacheops - A slick ORM cache with automatic granular event-driven invalidation.
  •    735 django-cache-machine - Automatic caching and invalidation for Django models.
  •    427 python-diskcache - SQLite and file backed cache backend with faster lookups than memcached and redis.
  •    406 pylibmc - A Python wrapper around the libmemcached interface.
  •    401 beaker - A WSGI middleware for sessions and caching.
  •      0 dogpile.cache - dogpile.cache is next generation replacement for Beaker made by same authors.

ChatOps Tools

Libraries for chatbot development.

  •   2005 errbot - The easiest and most popular chatbot to implement ChatOps.

Code Analysis

Tools of static analysis, linters and code quality checkers. See: awesome-static-analysis.

  • Code Analysis
    •   2780 coala - Language independent and easily extendable code analysis application.
    •   1290 pycallgraph - A library that visualises the flow (call graph) of your Python application.
    •   1106 prospector - A tool to analyse Python code.
    •    599 code2flow - Turn your Python and JavaScript code into DOT flowcharts.
  • Code Linters
    •   2156 flake8 - A wrapper around pycodestyle, pyflakes and McCabe.
    •   2069 pylint - A fully customizable source code analyzer.
    •    563 pylama - A code audit tool for Python and JavaScript. Code Formatters
    •   9355 black - The uncompromising Python code formatter.
    •   9182 yapf - Yet another Python code formatter from Google.
  • Static Type Checkers
    •   6070 mypy - Check variable types during compile time.
    •   2596 pyre-check - Performant type checking.
  • Static Type Annotations Generators
    •   2180 MonkeyType - A system for Python that generates static type annotations by collecting runtime types

Command-line Tools

Libraries for building command-line application.

  • Command-line Application Development
    •  14047 python-fire - A library for creating command line interfaces from absolutely any Python object.
    •   7504 click - A package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way.
    •   5411 python-prompt-toolkit - A library for building powerful interactive command lines.
    •   2499 clint - Python Command-line Application Tools.
    •    822 cement - CLI Application Framework for Python.
    •      0 cliff - A framework for creating command-line programs with multi-level commands.
    •      0 docopt - Pythonic command line arguments parser.
  • Terminal Rendering
    •   1567 colorama - Cross-platform colored terminal text.
    •   1405 asciimatics - A package to create full-screen text UIs (from interactive forms to ASCII animations).
    •   1190 bashplotlib - Making basic plots in the terminal.
  • Productivity Tools
    •  43677 thefuck - Correcting your previous console command.
    •   9477 cookiecutter - A command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates).
    •   7203 howdoi - Instant coding answers via the command line.
    •   4104 PathPicker - Select files out of bash output.
    •   2725 percol - Adds flavor of interactive selection to the traditional pipe concept on UNIX.
    •   2416 doitlive - A tool for live presentations in the terminal.
    •   2412 tmuxp - A tmux session manager.
    •    487 try - A dead simple CLI to try out python packages - it's never been easier.
  • CLI Enhancements
    •  41126 httpie - A command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement.
    •   7892 pgcli - Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
    •   7517 mycli - A Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.
    •   3998 saws - A Supercharged aws-cli.
    •   1240 kube-shell - An integrated shell for working with the Kubernetes CLI.

Compatibility

Libraries for migrating from Python 2 to 3.

  •   1002 python-future - The missing compatibility layer between Python 2 and Python 3.
  •    516 python-modernize - Modernizes Python code for eventual Python 3 migration.
  •    479 six - Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities.

Computer Vision

Libraries for computer vision.

Concurrency and Parallelism

Libraries for concurrent and parallel execution. See awesome-asyncio.

  •  24142 concurrent.futures - (Python standard library) A high-level interface for asynchronously executing callables.
  •  24142 multiprocessing - (Python standard library) Process-based parallelism.
  •   5885 uvloop - Ultra fast implementation of asyncio event loop on top of libuv.
  •   4661 gevent - A coroutine-based Python networking library that uses greenlet.
  •    796 eventlet - Asynchronous framework with WSGI support.
  •    381 scoop - Scalable Concurrent Operations in Python.

Configuration

Libraries for storing and parsing configuration options.

  •  24142 configparser - (Python standard library) INI file parser.
  •   2884 profig - Config from multiple formats with value conversion.
  •    993 python-decouple - Strict separation of settings from code.
  •    187 configobj - INI file parser with validation.

Cryptography

  •   5285 paramiko - A Python (2.6+, 3.3+) implementation of the SSHv2 protocol, providing both client and server functionality.
  •   2750 cryptography - A package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.
  •    596 pynacl - Python binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library.
  •      0 passlib - Secure password storage/hashing library, very high level.

Data Analysis

Libraries for data analyzing.

  •  19492 Pandas - A library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools.
  •   2655 Blaze - NumPy and Pandas interface to Big Data.
  •   1781 Orange - Data mining, data visualization, analysis and machine learning through visual programming or scripts.
  •    989 Open Mining - Business Intelligence (BI) in Pandas interface.
  •    626 Optimus - Cleansing, pre-processing, feature engineering, exploratory data analysis and easy Machine Learning with a PySpark backend.

Data Validation

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

  •  52615 Dash - Built on top of Flask, React and Plotly aimed at analytical web applications.
  •   2263 jsonschema - An implementation of JSON Schema for Python.
  •   2185 Schematics - Data Structure Validation.
  •   1749 schema - A library for validating Python data structures.
  •   1644 Cerberus - A lightweight and extensible data validation library.
  •   1461 voluptuous - A Python data validation library.
  •    357 colander - Validating and deserializing data obtained via XML, JSON, an HTML form post.
  •    225 valideer - Lightweight extensible data validation and adaptation library.

Data Visualization

Libraries for visualizing data. See: awesome-javascript.

  •   9405 Bokeh - Interactive Web Plotting for Python.
  •   9235 Matplotlib - A Python 2D plotting library.
  •   6046 Seaborn - Statistical data visualization using Matplotlib.
  •   3787 Altair - Declarative statistical visualization library for Python.
  •   3468 ggplot - Same API as ggplot2 for R.
  •   2345 bqplot - Interactive Plotting Library for the Jupyter Notebook
  •   2156 PyGraphviz - Python interface to Graphviz.
  •   2061 Pygal - A Python SVG Charts Creator.
  •   2000 VisPy - High-performance scientific visualization based on OpenGL.
  •   1532 PyQtGraph - Interactive and realtime 2D/3D/Image plotting and science/engineering widgets.

Database

Databases implemented in Python.

  •   2855 tinydb - A tiny, document-oriented database.
  •    371 pickleDB - A simple and lightweight key-value store for Python.
  •    311 ZODB - A native object database for Python. A key-value and object graph database.

Database Drivers

Libraries for connecting and operating databases.

  • MySQL - awesome-mysql
    •   5029 PyMySQL - A pure Python MySQL driver compatible to mysql-python.
    •   1455 mysqlclient - MySQL connector with Python 3 support (mysql-python fork).
  • PostgreSQL - awesome-postgres
    •   1272 psycopg2 - The most popular PostgreSQL adapter for Python.
    •    205 queries - A wrapper of the psycopg2 library for interacting with PostgreSQL.
  • Other Relational Databases
    •    431 pymssql - A simple database interface to Microsoft SQL Server.
  • NoSQL Databases
    •   7445 redis-py - The Python client for Redis.
    •   2995 kafka-python - The Python client for Apache Kafka.
    •   2735 pymongo - The official Python client for MongoDB.
    •   1035 cassandra-driver - The Python Driver for Apache Cassandra.
    •    457 happybase - A developer-friendly library for Apache HBase.
    •      0 py2neo - Python wrapper client for Neo4j's restful interface.
  • Asynchronous Clients
    •   1218 motor - The async Python driver for MongoDB.
    •    118 txRedis - Twisted based client for Redis.
    •    103 txpostgres - Twisted based asynchronous driver for PostgreSQL.
    •     94 Telephus - Twisted based client for Cassandra.

Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

  •   3302 Pendulum - Python datetimes made easy.
  •   2922 maya - Datetimes for Humans, Maya is mostly built around the headaches and use-cases around parsing datetime data from websites.
  •   1559 delorean - A library for clearing up the inconvenient truths that arise dealing with datetimes.
  •    958 dateutil - Extensions to the standard Python datetime module.
  •    819 pytz - World timezone definitions, modern and historical. Brings the tz database into Python.
  •    575 moment - A Python library for dealing with dates/times. Inspired by Moment.js.
  •    281 Chronyk - A Python 3 library for parsing human-written times and dates.
  •    177 when.py - Providing user-friendly functions to help perform common date and time actions.
  •    129 PyTime - A easy-use Python module which aims to operate date/time/datetime by string.

Debugging Tools

Libraries for debugging code.

  • pdb-like Debugger
    •   1435 pudb - A full-screen, console-based Python debugger.
    •   1382 wdb - An improbable web debugger through WebSockets.
    •    983 ipdb - IPython-enabled pdb.
    •    164 pdb++ - Another drop-in replacement for pdb.
  • Tracing
    •   1515 pyringe - Debugger capable of attaching to and injecting code into Python processes.
    •    638 lptrace - strace for Python programs.
    •    372 python-hunter - A flexible code tracing toolkit.
    •    209 manhole - Debug service that will accept unix domain socket connections and present the stacktraces for all threads and an interactive prompt.
  • Profiler
    •   3823 py-spy - A sampling profiler for Python programs. Written in Rust.
    •   3464 vprof - Visual Python profiler.
    •   2868 profiling - An interactive Python profiler.
    •   2792 line_profiler - Line-by-line profiling.
    •   2278 pyflame - A ptracing profiler For Python.
    •     32 memory_profiler - Monitor Memory usage of Python code.
  • Others
    •   5393 django-debug-toolbar - Display various debug information for Django.
    •   1294 icecream - Inspect variables, expressions, and program execution with a single, simple function call.
    •   1248 django-devserver - A drop-in replacement for Django's runserver.
    •    808 pyelftools - Parsing and analyzing ELF files and DWARF debugging information.
    •    694 flask-debugtoolbar - A port of the django-debug-toolbar to flask.

Deep Learning

Frameworks for Neural Networks and Deep Learning. See: awesome-deep-learning.

  • 127439 tensorflow - The most popular Deep Learning framework created by Google.
  •  41078 keras - A high-level neural networks library and capable of running on top of either TensorFlow or Theano.
  •  28066 caffe - A fast open framework for deep learning..
  •  27967 pytorch - Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration.
  •  16852 mxnet - A deep learning framework designed for both efficiency and flexibility.
  •   8785 Theano - A library for fast numerical computation.
  •   5189 SerpentAI - Game agent framework. Use any video game as a deep learning sandbox.

DevOps Tools

Software and libraries for DevOps.

  •  37071 ansible - A radically simple IT automation platform.
  •  16064 docker-compose - Fast, isolated development environments using Docker.
  •  11256 fabric - A simple, Pythonic tool for remote execution and deployment.
  •   9896 saltstack - Infrastructure automation and management system.
  •   5292 supervisor - Supervisor process control system for UNIX.
  •   4842 psutil - A cross-platform process and system utilities module.
  •   2884 cloudinit - A multi-distribution package that handles early initialization of a cloud instance.
  •   1517 pexpect - Controlling interactive programs in a pseudo-terminal like GNU expect.
  •   1238 cuisine - Chef-like functionality for Fabric.
  •   1237 honcho - A Python clone of Foreman, for managing Procfile-based applications.
  •   1189 fabtools - Tools for writing awesome Fabric files.
  •      0 OpenStack - Open source software for building private and public clouds.

Distributed Computing

Frameworks and libraries for Distributed Computing.

  • Batch Processing
    •  21794 PySpark - Apache Spark Python API.
    •  11523 luigi - A module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs.
    •   7003 Ray - A system for parallel and distributed Python that unifies the machine learning ecosystem.
    •   4799 dask - A flexible parallel computing library for analytic computing.
    •   2406 mrjob - Run MapReduce jobs on Hadoop or Amazon Web Services.
  • Stream Processing

Distribution

Libraries to create packaged executables for release distribution.

  •   5340 PyInstaller - Converts Python programs into stand-alone executables (cross-platform).
  •   2006 Nuitka - Compile scripts, modules, packages to an executable or extension module.
  •   1294 dh-virtualenv - Build and distribute a virtualenv as a Debian package.
  •    542 pynsist - A tool to build Windows installers, installers bundle Python itself.
  •      0 py2app - Freezes Python scripts (Mac OS X).
  •      0 py2exe - Freezes Python scripts (Windows).

Documentation

Libraries for generating project documentation.

  •   2565 sphinx - Python Documentation generator.
  •    664 pycco - The literate-programming-style documentation generator.
  •    582 pdoc - Epydoc replacement to auto generate API documentation for Python libraries.

Downloader

Libraries for downloading.

  •  24262 you-get - A YouTube/Youku/Niconico video downloader written in Python 3.
  •   2972 s3cmd - A command line tool for managing Amazon S3 and CloudFront.
  •    857 s4cmd - Super S3 command line tool, good for higher performance.
  •      0 youtube-dl - A small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.

E-commerce

Frameworks and libraries for e-commerce and payments.

  •   3733 django-oscar - An open-source e-commerce framework for Django.
  •   1853 django-shop - A Django based shop system.
  •    930 shoop - An open source E-Commerce platform based on Django.
  •    921 merchant - A Django app to accept payments from various payment processors.
  •    589 Cartridge - A shopping cart app built using the Mezzanine.
  •    319 alipay - Unofficial Alipay API for Python.
  •    238 forex-python - Foreign exchange rates, Bitcoin price index and currency conversion.
  •    158 money - Money class with optional CLDR-backed locale-aware formatting and an extensible currency exchange solution.
  •     39 python-currencies - Display money format and its filthy currencies.
  •      0 saleor - An e-commerce storefront for Django.

Editor Plugins and IDEs

  • Emacs
    •   1405 elpy - Emacs Python Development Environment.
  • Sublime Text
    •   1963 anaconda - Anaconda turns your Sublime Text 3 in a full featured Python development IDE.
    •    866 SublimeJEDI - A Sublime Text plugin to the awesome auto-complete library Jedi.
  • Vim
    •  19025 YouCompleteMe - Includes Jedi-based completion engine for Python.
    •   4641 python-mode - An all in one plugin for turning Vim into a Python IDE.
    •   3958 jedi-vim - Vim bindings for the Jedi auto-completion library for Python.
  • Visual Studio
    •   2150 PTVS - Python Tools for Visual Studio.
  • Visual Studio Code
    •   1423 Python - An extension with rich support for the Python language, with features including linting, IntelliSense, formatting, refactoring, debugging, unit tests, and jupyter support.
  • IDE
    •   4388 spyder - Open Source Python IDE.
    •      0 PyCharm - Commercial Python IDE by JetBrains. Has free community edition available.

Email

Libraries for sending and parsing email.

  •   3474 Nylas Sync Engine - Providing a RESTful API on top of a powerful email sync platform.
  •   1453 inbox.py - Python SMTP Server for Humans.
  •   1380 yagmail - Yet another Gmail/SMTP client.
  •   1301 flanker - A email address and Mime parsing library.
  •   1291 modoboa - A mail hosting and management platform including a modern and simplified Web UI.
  •    833 imbox - Python IMAP for Humans.
  •    669 lamson - Pythonic SMTP Application Server.
  •    164 Marrow Mailer - High-performance extensible mail delivery framework.
  •      0 envelopes - Mailing for human beings.

Environment Management

Libraries for Python version and environment management.

  •  24142 venv - (Python standard library in Python 3.3+) Creating lightweight virtual environments.
  •  16894 pipenv - Sacred Marriage of Pipfile, Pip, & Virtualenv.
  •  15317 pyenv - Simple Python version management.
  •   4396 poetry - Python dependency management and packaging made easy.
  •   3055 virtualenv - A tool to create isolated Python environments.

Files

Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.

  •  24142 mimetypes - (Python standard library) Map filenames to MIME types.
  •  24142 pathlib - (Python standard library) An cross-platform, object-oriented path library.
  •   3472 watchdog - API and shell utilities to monitor file system events.
  •   1355 python-magic - A Python interface to the libmagic file type identification library.
  •    875 PyFilesystem2 - Python's filesystem abstraction layer.
  •    862 path.py - A module wrapper for os.path.
  •    484 Unipath - An object-oriented approach to file/directory operations.

Foreign Function Interface

Libraries for providing foreign function interface.

  •  24142 ctypes - (Python standard library) Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.
  •   2156 cffi - Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.
  •      0 PyCUDA - A Python wrapper for Nvidia's CUDA API.
  •      0 SWIG - Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator.

Forms

Libraries for working with forms.

  •   3531 django-crispy-forms - A Django app which lets you create beautiful forms in a very elegant and DRY way.
  •   2109 django-bootstrap3 - Bootstrap 3 integration with Django.
  •    943 WTForms - A flexible forms validation and rendering library.
  •    519 django-bootstrap4 - Bootstrap 4 integration with Django.
  •    317 Deform - Python HTML form generation library influenced by the formish form generation library.
  •    189 django-remote-forms - A platform independent Django form serializer.

Functional Programming

Functional Programming with Python.

  •   2827 fn.py - Functional programming in Python: implementation of missing features to enjoy FP.
  •   2429 Coconut - Coconut is a variant of Python built for simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming.
  •   2286 Toolz - A collection of functional utilities for iterators, functions, and dictionaries.
  •   2049 funcy - A fancy and practical functional tools.
  •    606 CyToolz - Cython implementation of Toolz: High performance functional utilities.

GUI

Libraries for working with graphical user interface applications.

  •  24142 curses - Built-in wrapper for ncurses used to create terminal GUI applications.
  •   6682 Gooey - Turn command line programs into a full GUI application with one line.
  •   2711 Eel - Little library for making simple Electron-like offline HTML/JS GUI apps, with full access to Python capabilities and libraries.
  •   2013 Flexx - Flexx is a pure Python toolkit for creating GUI's, that uses web technology for its rendering.
  •   1976 Toga - A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit.
  •   1568 urwid - A library for creating terminal GUI applications with strong support for widgets, events, rich colors, etc.
  •   1474 PySimpleGUI - Wrapper for tkinter, Qt, WxPython and Remi that creates a unified, easy to understand & more Python-like interface for beginner and intermediate level custom GUIs.
  •   1346 pywebview - A lightweight cross-platform native wrapper around a webview component that allows to display HTML content in its own native dedicated window.
  •   1031 wxPython - A blending of the wxWidgets C++ class library with the Python.
  •    757 enaml - Creating beautiful user-interfaces with Declaratic Syntax like QML.
  •      0 PySide - Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework, supporting the Qt v4 framework.
  •      0 PyGObject - Python Bindings for GLib/GObject/GIO/GTK+ (GTK+3).
  •      0 pyglet - A cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python.
  •      0 Tkinter - Tkinter is Python's de-facto standard GUI package.
  •      0 kivy - A library for creating NUI applications, running on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android and iOS.
  •      0 PyQt - Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework, with support for both Qt v4 and Qt v5 frameworks.

Game Development

Awesome game development libraries.

  •  13152 Cocos2d - cocos2d is a framework for building 2D games, demos, and other graphical/interactive applications. It is based on pyglet.
  •   1590 Panda3D - 3D game engine developed by Disney and maintained by Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center. Written in C++, completely wrapped in Python.
  •     80 PySDL2 - A ctypes based wrapper for the SDL2 library.
  •      0 Harfang3D - Python framework for 3D, VR and game development. Manage and display complex 3D scenes, with physics, video, sound and music, access VR devices. All written in C++.
  •      0 PyOgre - Python bindings for the Ogre 3D render engine, can be used for games, simulations, anything 3D.
  •      0 PyOpenGL - Python ctypes bindings for OpenGL and it's related APIs.
  •      0 RenPy - A Visual Novel engine.
  •      0 Pygame - Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing games.

Geolocation

Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

  •   2430 geopy - Python Geocoding Toolbox.
  •    675 django-countries - A Django app that provides country choices for use with forms, flag icons static files, and a country field for models.
  •    480 pygeoip - Pure Python GeoIP API.
  •    418 geojson - Python bindings and utilities for GeoJSON.
  •    190 GeoIP - Python API for MaxMind GeoIP Legacy Database.
  •      0 GeoDjango - A world-class geographic web framework.

HTML Manipulation

Libraries for working with HTML and XML.

  •   3456 xmltodict - Working with XML feel like you are working with JSON.
  •   2736 WeasyPrint - A visual rendering engine for HTML and CSS that can export to PDF.
  •   2156 cssutils - A CSS library for Python.
  •   1731 bleach - A whitelist-based HTML sanitization and text linkification library.
  •   1694 pyquery - A jQuery-like library for parsing HTML.
  •   1435 lxml - A very fast, easy-to-use and versatile library for handling HTML and XML.
  •    774 html5lib - A standards-compliant library for parsing and serializing HTML documents and fragments.
  •    402 untangle - Converts XML documents to Python objects for easy access.
  •    260 MarkupSafe - Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python.
  •      0 BeautifulSoup - Providing Pythonic idioms for iterating, searching, and modifying HTML or XML.
  •      0 xmldataset - Simple XML Parsing.

HTTP

Libraries for working with HTTP.

  •   3016 grequests - requests + gevent for asynchronous HTTP requests.
  •   1983 requests - HTTP Requests for Humans‚Ñ¢.
  •   1983 urllib3 - A HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post support, sanity friendly.
  •    471 treq - Python requests like API built on top of Twisted's HTTP client.
  •    308 httplib2 - Comprehensive HTTP client library.

Hardware

Libraries for programming with hardware.

  •   3843 scapy - A brilliant packet manipulation library.
  •   1421 keyboard - Hook and simulate global keyboard events on Windows and Linux.
  •   1056 ino - Command line toolkit for working with Arduino.
  •    843 PyUserInput - A module for cross-platform control of the mouse and keyboard.
  •    244 wifi - A Python library and command line tool for working with WiFi on Linux.
  •    184 mouse - Hook and simulate global mouse events on Windows and Linux.
  •      0 Pingo - Pingo provides a uniform API to program devices like the Raspberry Pi, pcDuino, Intel Galileo, etc.

Image Processing

Libraries for manipulating images.

  •   6853 thumbor - A smart imaging service. It enables on-demand crop, re-sizing and flipping of images.
  •   6189 pillow - Pillow is the friendly PIL fork.
  •   2981 scikit-image - A Python library for (scientific) image processing.
  •   1768 python-qrcode - A pure Python QR Code generator.
  •    873 wand - Python bindings for MagickWand, C API for ImageMagick.
  •    851 Quads - Computer art based on quadtrees.
  •    647 nude.py - Nudity detection.
  •    166 hmap - Image histogram remapping.
  •    135 pagan - Retro identicon (Avatar) generation based on input string and hash.
  •     79 pygram - Instagram-like image filters.
  •      0 imgSeek - A project for searching a collection of images using visual similarity.
  •      0 pyBarcode - Create barcodes in Python without needing PIL.

Implementations

Implementations of Python.

  •  24142 CPython - Default, most widely used implementation of the Python programming language written in C.
  •   9683 Grumpy - More compiler than interpreter as more powerful CPython2.7 replacement (alpha).
  •   8407 MicroPython - MicroPython - a lean and efficient Python programming language implementation for microcontrollers and constrained systems
  •   4483 Pyston - A Python implementation built using LLVM and modern JIT techniques with the goal of achieving good performance.
  •   4089 Numba - Python JIT compiler to LLVM aimed at scientific Python.
  •   4075 Cython - Optimizing Static Compiler for Python. Uses type mixins to compile Python into C or C++ modules resulting in large performance gains
  •   1279 PeachPy - x86-64 assembler embedded in Python. Can be used as inline assembler for Python or as a stand-alone assembler for Windows, Linux, OS X, Native Client and Go.
  •   1269 Pyjion - A JIT for Python based upon CoreCLR.
  •    870 IronPython - Implementation of the Python programming language written in C# targeting the .NET Framework and Mono.
  •    384 Stackless Python - An enhanced version of the Python programming language which allows programmers to reap the benefits of thread-based programming without the performance and complexity problems associated with conventional threads.
  •    340 PySec - Hardened version of python that makes it easier for security professionals and developers to write applications more resilient to attacks and manipulations.
  •    268 CLPython - Implementation of the Python programming language written in Common Lisp.
  •      0 PyPy - Implementation of the Python programming language written in RPython and translated into C. PyPy focuses on speed, efficiency and compatibility with the original CPython interpreter. The interpreter uses black magic to make Python very fast without having to add in additional type information.
  •      0 Jython - Implementation of Python programming language written in Java for the Java virtual machine (JVM).

Interactive Interpreter

Interactive Python interpreters (REPL).

Internationalization

Libraries for working with i18n.

  •    803 Babel - An internationalization library for Python.
  •     90 PyICU - A wrapper of International Components for Unicode C++ library (ICU).

Job Scheduler

Libraries for scheduling jobs.

  •  12194 Airflow - Airflow is a platform to programmatically author, schedule and monitor workflows.
  •   6028 schedule - Python job scheduling for humans.
  •   1853 APScheduler - A light but powerful in-process task scheduler that lets you schedule functions.
  •   1074 Plan - Writing crontab file in Python like a charm.
  •    760 Spiff - A powerful workflow engine implemented in pure Python.
  •    745 django-schedule - A calendaring app for Django.
  •    682 gunnery - Multipurpose task execution tool for distributed systems with web-based interface.
  •    600 doit - A task runner and build tool.
  •      0 Joblib - A set of tools to provide lightweight pipelining in Python.
  •      0 TaskFlow - A Python library that helps to make task execution easy, consistent and reliable.

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with logs.

  •  24142 logging - (Python standard library) Logging facility for Python.
  •   1633 raven - Python client for Sentry, a log/error tracking, crash reporting and aggregation platform for web applications.
  •   1318 logbook - Logging replacement for Python.
  •    540 Eliot - Logging for complex & distributed systems.

Machine Learning

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

  •  15917 xgboost - A scalable, portable, and distributed gradient boosting library.
  •   5905 NuPIC - Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing.
  •   4012 H2O - Open Source Fast Scalable Machine Learning Platform.
  •   1117 Metrics - Machine learning evaluation metrics.
  •    597 Spark ML - Apache Spark's scalable Machine Learning library.
  •    144 vowpal_porpoise - A lightweight Python wrapper for Vowpal Wabbit.
  •      0 scikit-learn - The most popular Python library for Machine Learning.

Microsoft Windows

Python programming on Microsoft Windows.

  •   7192 pythonlibs - Unofficial Windows binaries for Python extension packages.
  •   1556 PythonNet - Python Integration with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR).
  •   1382 PyWin32 - Python Extensions for Windows.
  •      0 Python(x,y) - Scientific-applications-oriented Python Distribution based on Qt and Spyder.
  •      0 WinPython - Portable development environment for Windows 7/8.

Miscellaneous

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

  •   4795 boltons - A set of pure-Python utilities.
  •   1724 itsdangerous - Various helpers to pass trusted data to untrusted environments.
  •    893 blinker - A fast Python in-process signal/event dispatching system.
  •    796 pluginbase - A simple but flexible plugin system for Python.
  •      0 tryton - A general purpose business framework.

Natural Language Processing

Libraries for working with human languages.

  • General
    •  13286 spacy - A library for industrial-strength natural language processing in Python and Cython.
    •   9174 gensim - Topic Modelling for Humans.
    •   7731 nltk - A leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data.
    •   6948 pattern - A web mining module for the Python.
    •   4945 pytext - A natural language modeling framework based on PyTorch.
    •   1840 stanfordnlp - The Stanford NLP Group's official Python library, supporting 50+ languages.
    •   1301 langid.py - Stand-alone language identification system.
    •   1298 PyTorch-NLP - A toolkit enabling rapid deep learning NLP prototyping for research.
    •   1249 polyglot - Natural language pipeline supporting hundreds of languages.
  • Chinese
    •  18519 jieba - The most popular Chinese text segmentation library.
    •   7810 funNLP - A collection of tools and datasets for Chinese NLP.
    •   4062 snownlp - A library for processing Chinese text.
    •   3492 pkuseg-python - A toolkit for Chinese word segmentation in various domains.

Network Virtualization

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

  •   2778 mininet - A popular network emulator and API written in Python.
  •    440 pox - A Python-based SDN control applications, such as OpenFlow SDN controllers.

Networking

Libraries for networking programming.

  •  24142 asyncio - (Python standard library) Asynchronous I/O, event loop, coroutines and tasks.
  •   3342 Twisted - An event-driven networking engine.
  •   2178 pyzmq - A Python wrapper for the ZeroMQ message library.
  •   1749 pulsar - Event-driven concurrent framework for Python.
  •   1216 napalm - Cross-vendor API to manipulate network devices.

News Feed

Libraries for building user's activities.

  •   4019 Stream Framework - Building newsfeed and notification systems using Cassandra and Redis.
  •   1550 django-activity-stream - Generating generic activity streams from the actions on your site.

ORM

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

  • Relational Databases
    •   6416 peewee - A small, expressive ORM.
    •   3523 dataset - Store Python dicts in a database - works with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
    •   1794 pony - ORM that provides a generator-oriented interface to SQL.
    •    879 orator - The Orator ORM provides a simple yet beautiful ActiveRecord implementation.
    •    864 SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper.
    •    263 pydal - A pure Python Database Abstraction Layer.
    •      0 Django Models - A part of Django.
  • NoSQL Databases
    •   2734 mongoengine - A Python Object-Document-Mapper for working with MongoDB.
    •    915 PynamoDB - A Pythonic interface for Amazon DynamoDB.
    •    423 redisco - A Python Library for Simple Models and Containers Persisted in Redis.
    •    249 hot-redis - Rich Python data types for Redis.

Package Management

Libraries for package and dependency management.

  •   5391 pip - The Python package and dependency manager.
    •   3310 pip-tools - A set of tools to keep your pinned Python dependencies fresh.
  •   2910 conda - Cross-platform, Python-agnostic binary package manager.

Package Repositories

Local PyPI repository server and proxies.

  •   2156 warehouse - Next generation Python Package Repository (PyPI).
  •    350 localshop - Local PyPI server (custom packages and auto-mirroring of pypi).
  •    264 devpi - PyPI server and packaging/testing/release tool.
  •     92 bandersnatch - PyPI mirroring tool provided by Python Packaging Authority (PyPA).

Permissions

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

  •   2226 django-guardian - Implementation of per object permissions for Django 1.2+
  •    864 django-rules - A tiny but powerful app providing object-level permissions to Django, without requiring a database.

Processes

Libraries for starting and communicating with OS processes.

  •   4953 sh - A full-fledged subprocess replacement for Python.
  •   2884 sarge - Yet another wrapper for subprocess.
  •   1305 delegator.py - Subprocesses for Humans‚Ñ¢ 2.0.

Queue

Libraries for working with event and task queues.

  •  12340 celery - An asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.
  •   5535 rq - Simple job queues for Python.
  •   2267 huey - Little multi-threaded task queue.
  •    756 mrq - Mr. Queue - A distributed worker task queue in Python using Redis & gevent.

Recommender Systems

Libraries for building recommender systems.

  •   5353 annoy - Approximate Nearest Neighbors in C++/Python optimized for memory usage.
  •   3096 Surprise - A scikit for building and analyzing recommender systems.
  •   2475 lightfm - A Python implementation of a number of popular recommendation algorithms.
  •   1657 spotlight - Deep recommender models using PyTorch.
  •   1466 implicit - A fast Python implementation of collaborative filtering for implicit datasets.
  •   1188 libffm - A library for Field-aware Factorization Machine (FFM).
  •    844 tensorrec - A Recommendation Engine Framework in TensorFlow.
  •    734 fastFM - A library for Factorization Machines.

RESTful API

Libraries for developing RESTful APIs.

  • Django
  • Flask
    •   5622 eve - REST API framework powered by Flask, MongoDB and good intentions.
    •   4689 flask-restful - Quickly building REST APIs for Flask.
    •   1057 flask-api - Browsable Web APIs for Flask.
    •    971 flask-restless - Generating RESTful APIs for database models defined with SQLAlchemy.
    •     50 flask-api-utils - Taking care of API representation and authentication for Flask.
  • Pyramid
    •    345 cornice - A RESTful framework for Pyramid.
  • Framework agnostic
    •   6602 falcon - A high-performance framework for building cloud APIs and web app backends.
    •   5721 hug - A Python3 framework for cleanly exposing APIs over HTTP and the Command Line with automatic documentation and validation.
    •   5167 apistar - A smart Web API framework, designed for Python 3.
    •   2311 sandman - Automated REST APIs for existing database-driven systems.
    •    747 restless - Framework agnostic REST framework based on lessons learned from Tastypie.
    •    190 ripozo - Quickly creating REST/HATEOAS/Hypermedia APIs.

Robotics

Libraries for robotics.

  •   5549 PythonRobotics - This is a compilation of various robotics algorithms with visualizations.
  •    368 rospy - This is a library for ROS (Robot Operating System).

RPC Servers

RPC-compatible servers.

Science

Libraries for scientific computing.

  •   8751 Zipline - A Pythonic algorithmic trading library.
  •   5829 SymPy - A Python library for symbolic mathematics.
  •   5654 NetworkX - A high-productivity software for complex networks.
  •   4181 PyMC - Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.
  •   3885 statsmodels - Statistical modeling and econometrics in Python.
  •   2070 astropy - A community Python library for Astronomy.
  •    678 Colour - A colour science package implementing a comprehensive number of colour theory transformations and algorithms.
  •    674 bcbio-nextgen - Providing best-practice pipelines for fully automated high throughput sequencing analysis.
  •    504 ObsPy - A Python toolbox for seismology.
  •    440 bccb - Collection of useful code related to biological analysis.
  •    158 PyDy - Short for Python Dynamics, used to assist with workflow in the modeling of dynamic motion.
  •      8 cclib - A library for parsing and interpreting the results of computational chemistry packages.
  •      0 Open Babel - A chemical toolbox designed to speak the many languages of chemical data.
  •      0 QuTiP - Quantum Toolbox in Python.
  •      0 RDKit - Cheminformatics and Machine Learning Software.
  •      0 SciPy - A Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.
  •      0 NumPy - A fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.
  •      0 Biopython - Biopython is a set of freely available tools for biological computation.
  •      0 NIPY - A collection of neuroimaging toolkits.
  •      0 SimPy - A process-based discrete-event simulation framework.

Search

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

Serialization

Libraries for serializing complex data types

Serverless Frameworks

Frameworks for developing serverless Python code.

  •   9103 Zappa - A tool for deploying WSGI applications on AWS Lambda and API Gateway.
  •    931 python-lambda - A toolkit for developing and deploying Python code in AWS Lambda.

Specific Formats Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating specific text formats.

  • General
    •   3434 tablib - A module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML.
  • Office
    •   2884 openpyxl - A library for reading and writing Excel 2010 xlsx/xlsm/xltx/xltm files.
    •   1835 XlsxWriter - A Python module for creating Excel .xlsx files.
    •   1660 python-docx - Reads, queries and modifies Microsoft Word 2007/2008 docx files.
    •   1529 unoconv - Convert between any document format supported by LibreOffice/OpenOffice.
    •   1347 xlwings - A BSD-licensed library that makes it easy to call Python from Excel and vice versa.
    •    870 xlwt / xlrd - Writing and reading data and formatting information from Excel files.
    •    779 python-pptx - Python library for creating and updating PowerPoint (.pptx) files.
    •    642 pyexcel - Providing one API for reading, manipulating and writing csv, ods, xls, xlsx and xlsm files.
  • PDF
    •   3494 PDFMiner - A tool for extracting information from PDF documents.
    •   2503 PyPDF2 - A library capable of splitting, merging and transforming PDF pages.
    •      0 ReportLab - Allowing Rapid creation of rich PDF documents.
  • Markdown
    •   1749 Python-Markdown - A Python implementation of John Gruber‚Äôs Markdown.
    •   1488 Mistune - Fastest and full featured pure Python parsers of Markdown.
  • YAML
    •    695 PyYAML - YAML implementations for Python.
  • CSV
    •   3767 csvkit - Utilities for converting to and working with CSV.
  • Archive
    •    343 unp - A command line tool that can unpack archives easily.

Static Site Generator

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

  •   8754 pelican - Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax.
  •   7622 mkdocs - Markdown friendly documentation generator.
  •   3042 lektor - An easy to use static CMS and blog engine.
  •   1696 nikola - A static website and blog generator.

Tagging

Libraries for tagging items.

Template Engine

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.

  •   6142 Jinja2 - A modern and designer friendly templating language.
  •     25 Mako - Hyperfast and lightweight templating for the Python platform.
  •      0 Genshi - Python templating toolkit for generation of web-aware output.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

  • Testing Frameworks
    •  24142 unittest - (Python standard library) Unit testing framework.
    •   4116 pytest - A mature full-featured Python testing tool.
    •   3463 hypothesis - Hypothesis is an advanced Quickcheck style property based testing library.
    •   3312 Robot Framework - A generic test automation framework.
    •    554 nose2 - The successor to nose, based on `unittest2.
  • Test Runners
    •   1045 tox - Auto builds and tests distributions in multiple Python versions
    •    608 green - A clean, colorful test runner.
    •      0 mamba - The definitive testing tool for Python. Born under the banner of BDD.
  • GUI / Web Testing
    •  14327 Selenium - Python bindings for Selenium WebDriver.
    •  10017 locust - Scalable user load testing tool written in Python.
    •   2682 PyAutoGUI - PyAutoGUI is a cross-platform GUI automation Python module for human beings.
    •   2009 splinter - Open source tool for testing web applications.
    •   1557 sixpack - A language-agnostic A/B Testing framework.
  • Mock
    •  24142 mock - (Python standard library) A mocking and patching library.
    •   2333 responses - A utility library for mocking out the requests Python library.
    •   1930 freezegun - Travel through time by mocking the datetime module.
    •   1680 httpretty - HTTP request mock tool for Python.
    •   1402 VCR.py - Record and replay HTTP interactions on your tests.
    •    372 httmock - A mocking library for requests for Python 2.6+ and 3.2+.
    •    147 Mocket - Socket Mock Framework plus HTTP[S]/asyncio/gevent mocking library with recording/replaying capability.
    •      1 doublex - Powerful test doubles framework for Python.
  • Object Factories
    •   1781 factory_boy - A test fixtures replacement for Python.
    •    900 model_mommy - Creating random fixtures for testing in Django.
    •    595 mixer - Another fixtures replacement. Supported Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Peewee and etc.
  • Code Coverage
    •    734 coverage - Code coverage measurement.
  • Fake Data
    •   7824 faker - A Python package that generates fake data.
    •   2369 mimesis - is a Python library that help you generate fake data.
    •   1963 fake2db - Fake database generator.
    •      4 radar - Generate random datetime / time.
  • Error Handler
    •   3406 FuckIt.py - FuckIt.py uses state-of-the-art technology to make sure your Python code runs whether it has any right to or not.

Text Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating plain texts.

  • General
    •  24142 difflib - (Python standard library) Helpers for computing deltas.
    •   5588 fuzzywuzzy - Fuzzy String Matching.
    •   2438 ftfy - Makes Unicode text less broken and more consistent automagically.
    •   1825 pypinyin - Convert Chinese hanzi (ʺ¢Â≠ó) to pinyin (ÊãºÈü≥).
    •   1371 textdistance - Compute distance between sequences. 30+ algorithms, pure python implementation, common interface, optional external libs usage.
    •   1123 chardet - Python 2/3 compatible character encoding detector.
    •    623 Levenshtein - Fast computation of Levenshtein distance and string similarity.
    •    456 pyfiglet - An implementation of figlet written in Python.
    •    107 pangu.py - Paranoid text spacing.
    •     33 unidecode - ASCII transliterations of Unicode text.
  • Slugify
    •    684 python-slugify - A Python slugify library that translates unicode to ASCII.
    •    422 awesome-slugify - A Python slugify library that can preserve unicode.
    •    281 unicode-slugify - A slugifier that generates unicode slugs with Django as a dependency.
  • Unique identifiers
    •   1074 shortuuid - A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs.
    •    929 hashids - Implementation of hashids in Python.
  • Parser
    •   2154 python-phonenumbers - Parsing, formatting, storing and validating international phone numbers.
    •   1620 sqlparse - A non-validating SQL parser.
    •   1342 ply - Implementation of lex and yacc parsing tools for Python.
    •    899 python-user-agents - Browser user agent parser.
    •    333 python-nameparser - Parsing human names into their individual components.
    •    310 pyparsing - A general purpose framework for generating parsers.
    •      0 pygments - A generic syntax highlighter.

Third-party APIs

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

URL Manipulation

Libraries for parsing URLs.

  •   1594 furl - A small Python library that makes parsing and manipulating URLs easy.
  •    815 webargs - A friendly library for parsing HTTP request arguments, with built-in support for popular web frameworks, including Flask, Django, Bottle, Tornado, and Pyramid.
  •    227 purl - A simple, immutable URL class with a clean API for interrogation and manipulation.
  •    226 pyshorteners - A pure Python URL shortening lib.

Video

Libraries for manipulating video and GIFs.

  •     91 scikit-video - Video processing routines for SciPy.
  •      0 moviepy - A module for script-based movie editing with many formats, including animated GIFs.

WSGI Servers

WSGI-compatible web servers.

  •   5813 gunicorn - Pre-forked, partly written in C.
  •   4722 werkzeug - A WSGI utility library for Python that powers Flask and can easily be embedded into your own projects.
  •   1912 bjoern - Asynchronous, very fast and written in C.
  •    570 waitress - Multi-threaded, powers Pyramid.
  •    563 uWSGI - A project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services, written in C.

Web Asset Management

Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.

  •   2884 fanstatic - Packages, optimizes, and serves static file dependencies as Python packages.
  •   2186 django-compressor - Compresses linked and inline JavaScript or CSS into a single cached file.
  •   1306 django-pipeline - An asset packaging library for Django.
  •   1213 django-storages - A collection of custom storage back ends for Django.
  •    863 webassets - Bundles, optimizes, and manages unique cache-busting URLs for static resources.
  •    375 flask-assets - Helps you integrate webassets into your Flask app.
  •    322 fileconveyor - A daemon to detect and sync files to CDNs, S3 and FTP.

Web Content Extracting

Libraries for extracting web contents.

  •   9654 requests-html - Pythonic HTML Parsing for Humans.
  •   8128 newspaper - News extraction, article extraction and content curation in Python.
  •   2808 toapi - Every web site provides APIs.
  •   2518 textract - Extract text from any document, Word, PowerPoint, PDFs, etc.
  •   1923 sumy - A module for automatic summarization of text documents and HTML pages.
  •   1617 python-readability - Fast Python port of arc90's readability tool.
  •    679 html2text - Convert HTML to Markdown-formatted text.
  •    465 lassie - Web Content Retrieval for Humans.
  •    432 micawber - A small library for extracting rich content from URLs.

Web Crawling & Web Scraping

Libraries to automate data extraction from websites.

  •  32781 scrapy - A fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework.
  •  13105 pyspider - A powerful spider system.
  •   6937 portia - Visual scraping for Scrapy.
  •   3292 robobrowser - A simple, Pythonic library for browsing the web without a standalone web browser.
  •   3211 MechanicalSoup - A Python library for automating interaction with websites.
  •   1762 grab - Site scraping framework.
  •   1353 cola - A distributed crawling framework.
  •      0 feedparser - Universal feed parser.

Web Frameworks

Full stack web frameworks.

  •  17728 Tornado - A Web framework and asynchronous networking library.
  •  12032 Sanic - Web server that's written to go fast.
  •   5084 Vibora - Fast, efficient and asynchronous Web framework inspired by Flask.
  •     29 Pyramid - A small, fast, down-to-earth, open source Python web framework.
  •      0 Django - The most popular web framework in Python.
  •      0 Flask - A microframework for Python.

WebSocket

Libraries for working with WebSocket.

  •   3777 django-channels - Developer-friendly asynchrony for Django.
  •   2015 autobahn-python - WebSocket & WAMP for Python on Twisted and asyncio.
  •   1648 crossbar - Open-source Unified Application Router (Websocket & WAMP for Python on Autobahn).
  •   1182 django-socketio - WebSockets for Django.
  •   1041 WebSocket-for-Python - WebSocket client and server library for Python 2 and 3 as well as PyPy.

Services

Online tools and APIs to simplify development.

Continuous Integration

See: awesome-CIandCD.

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

Code Quality

  •      0 Codacy - Automated Code Review to ship better code, faster.
  •      0 Codecov - Code coverage dashboard.
  •      0 CodeFactor - Automated Code Review for Git.
  •      0 Landscape - Hosted continuous Python code metrics.

Resources

Where to discover new Python libraries.

Podcasts

Twitter

Websites

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