A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources.
Inspired by awesome-php.
- Awesome Python
- Admin Panels
- Algorithms and Design Patterns
- ASGI Servers
- Asynchronous Programming
- Audio
- Authentication
- Build Tools
- Built-in Classes Enhancement
- Caching
- ChatOps Tools
- CMS
- Code Analysis
- Command-line Interface Development
- Command-line Tools
- Compatibility
- Computer Vision
- Concurrency and Parallelism
- Configuration
- Cryptography
- Data Analysis
- Data Validation
- Data Visualization
- Database Drivers
- Database
- Date and Time
- Debugging Tools
- Deep Learning
- DevOps Tools
- Distributed Computing
- Distribution
- Documentation
- Downloader
- E-commerce
- Editor Plugins and IDEs
- Environment Management
- Files
- Foreign Function Interface
- Forms
- Functional Programming
- Game Development
- Geolocation
- GUI Development
- Hardware
- HTML Manipulation
- HTTP Clients
- Image Processing
- Implementations
- Interactive Interpreter
- Internationalization
- Job Scheduler
- Logging
- Machine Learning
- Miscellaneous
- Natural Language Processing
- Network Virtualization
- News Feed
- ORM
- Package Management
- Package Repositories
- Penetration testing
- Permissions
- Processes
- Recommender Systems
- Refactoring
- RESTful API
- Robotics
- RPC Servers
- Science
- Search
- Serialization
- Serverless Frameworks
- Specific Formats Processing
- Static Site Generator
- Tagging
- Task Queues
- Template Engine
- Testing
- Text Processing
- Third-party APIs
- URL Manipulation
- Video
- Web Asset Management
- Web Content Extracting
- Web Crawling
- Web Frameworks
- WebSocket
- WSGI Servers
- Resources
- Contributing
Libraries for administrative interfaces.
6123
ajenti - The admin panel your servers deserve.4459
django-xadmin - Drop-in replacement of Django admin comes with lots of goodies.4435
flower - Real-time monitor and web admin for Celery.4412
flask-admin - Simple and extensible administrative interface framework for Flask.2863
django-jet - Modern responsive template for the Django admin interface with improved functionality.2015
django-suit - Alternative Django Admin-Interface (free only for Non-commercial use).1473
wooey - A Django app which creates automatic web UIs for Python scripts.799
django-grappelli - A jazzy skin for the Django Admin-Interface.784
jet-bridge - Admin panel framework for any application with nice UI (ex Jet Django)
Python implementation of data structures, algorithms and design patterns. Also see awesome-algorithms.
- Algorithms
86100
TheAlgorithms - All Algorithms implemented in Python.17903
algorithms - Minimal examples of data structures and algorithms.1860
sortedcontainers - Fast and pure-Python implementation of sorted collections.1101
python-ds - A collection of data structure and algorithms for coding interviews.
- Design Patterns
25922
python-patterns - A collection of design patterns in Python.3169
transitions - A lightweight, object-oriented finite state machine implementation.1054
PyPattyrn - A simple yet effective library for implementing common design patterns.
ASGI-compatible web servers.
3079
uvicorn - A lightning-fast ASGI server implementation, using uvloop and httptools.1348
daphne - A HTTP, HTTP2 and WebSocket protocol server for ASGI and ASGI-HTTP.
33691
asyncio - (Python standard library) Asynchronous I/O, event loop, coroutines and tasks.7164
uvloop - Ultra fast asyncio event loop.4023
Twisted - An event-driven networking engine.3423
trio - A friendly library for async concurrency and I/O.2535
awesome-asyncio
Libraries for manipulating audio and its metadata.
- Audio
5138
dejavu - Audio fingerprinting and recognition.4769
pydub - Manipulate audio with a simple and easy high level interface.3903
librosa - Python library for audio and music analysis3417
pyAudioAnalysis - Audio feature extraction, classification, segmentation and applications.652
kapre - Keras Audio Preprocessors345
audioread - Cross-library (GStreamer + Core Audio + MAD + FFmpeg) audio decoding.291
TimeSide - Open web audio processing framework.255
matchering - A library for automated reference audio mastering.0
mingus - An advanced music theory and notation package with MIDI file and playback support.
- Metadata
9608
beets - A music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger.665
mutagen - A Python module to handle audio metadata.406
tinytag - A library for reading music meta data of MP3, OGG, FLAC and Wave files.250
eyeD3 - A tool for working with audio files, specifically MP3 files containing ID3 metadata.
Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.
- OAuth
5838
django-allauth - Authentication app for Django that "just works."2926
python-oauth2 - A fully tested, abstract interface to creating OAuth clients and servers.2789
python-social-auth - An easy-to-setup social authentication mechanism.2094
oauthlib - A generic and thorough implementation of the OAuth request-signing logic.2039
authlib - JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption draft implementation.2030
django-oauth-toolkit - OAuth 2 goodies for Django.
- JWT
3447
pyjwt - JSON Web Token implementation in Python.708
python-jose - A JOSE implementation in Python.176
python-jwt - A module for generating and verifying JSON Web Tokens.
Compile software from source code.
4380
PlatformIO - A console tool to build code with different development platforms.1243
pybuilder - A continuous build tool written in pure Python.944
SCons - A software construction tool.492
buildout - A build system for creating, assembling and deploying applications from multiple parts.0
BitBake - A make-like build tool for embedded Linux.
Libraries for enhancing Python built-in classes.
33691
dataclasses - (Python standard library) Data classes.3228
attrs - Replacement for__init__
,__eq__
,__repr__
, etc. boilerplate in class definitions.1534
Box - Python dictionaries with advanced dot notation access.637
bidict - Efficient, Pythonic bidirectional map data structures and related functionality..102
DottedDict - A library that provides a method of accessing lists and dicts with a dotted path notation.
Content Management Systems.
9236
wagtail - A Django content management system.4128
mezzanine - A powerful, consistent, and flexible content management platform.2195
quokka - Flexible, extensible, small CMS powered by Flask and MongoDB.1090
indico - A feature-rich event management system, made @ CERN.779
feincms - One of the most advanced Content Management Systems built on Django.352
Kotti - A high-level, Pythonic web application framework built on Pyramid.137
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.
Libraries for caching data.
2489
HermesCache - Python caching library with tag-based invalidation and dogpile effect prevention.1304
django-cacheops - A slick ORM cache with automatic granular event-driven invalidation.795
django-cache-machine - Automatic caching and invalidation for Django models.560
python-diskcache - SQLite and file backed cache backend with faster lookups than memcached and redis.459
beaker - A WSGI middleware for sessions and caching.436
pylibmc - A Python wrapper around the libmemcached interface.0
dogpile.cache - dogpile.cache is next generation replacement for Beaker made by same authors.
Libraries for chatbot development.
2330
errbot - The easiest and most popular chatbot to implement ChatOps.
Tools of static analysis, linters and code quality checkers. Also see awesome-static-analysis.
- Code Analysis
3043
coala - Language independent and easily extendable code analysis application.1467
pycallgraph - A library that visualises the flow (call graph) of your Python application.1300
prospector - A tool to analyse Python code.1034
vulture - A tool for finding and analysing dead Python code.771
code2flow - Turn your Python and JavaScript code into DOT flowcharts.
- Code Linters
3011
pylint - A fully customizable source code analyzer.2489
flake8 - A wrapper aroundpycodestyle
,pyflakes
and McCabe.1154
wemake-python-styleguide - The strictest and most opinionated python linter ever.726
pylama - A code audit tool for Python and JavaScript.
- Code Formatters
- Static Type Checkers, also see awesome-python-typing
9144
mypy - Check variable types during compile time.4864
pyre-check - Performant type checking.1820
typeshed - Collection of library stubs for Python, with static types.
- Static Type Annotations Generators
3098
MonkeyType - A system for Python that generates static type annotations by collecting runtime types.2914
pytype - Pytype checks and infers types for Python code - without requiring type annotations.1131
pyannotate - Auto-generate PEP-484 annotations.
Libraries for building command-line applications.
- Command-line Application Development
17734
python-fire - A library for creating command line interfaces from absolutely any Python object.9797
click - A package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way.6520
python-prompt-toolkit - A library for building powerful interactive command lines.953
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
15906
tqdm - Fast, extensible progress bar for loops and CLI.12595
rich - Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. Also provides a greatRichHandler
log handler.2398
asciimatics - A package to create full-screen text UIs (from interactive forms to ASCII animations).2209
colorama - Cross-platform colored terminal text.1463
bashplotlib - Making basic plots in the terminal.790
alive-progress - A new kind of Progress Bar, with real-time throughput, eta and very cool animations.
Useful CLI-based tools for productivity.
- Productivity Tools
55652
thefuck - Correcting your previous console command.12892
cookiecutter - A command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates).8461
howdoi - Instant coding answers via the command line.4458
PathPicker - Select files out of bash output.2985
Invoke - A tool for managing shell-oriented subprocesses and organizing executable Python code into CLI-invokable tasks.2949
percol - Adds flavor of interactive selection to the traditional pipe concept on UNIX.2873
tmuxp - A tmux session manager.2843
doitlive - A tool for live presentations in the terminal.564
try - A dead simple CLI to try out python packages - it's never been easier.110
copier - A library and command-line utility for rendering projects templates.
- CLI Enhancements
48178
httpie - A command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement.9056
mycli - MySQL CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.8956
pgcli - PostgreSQL CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.4589
saws - A Supercharged aws-cli.1709
kube-shell - An integrated shell for working with the Kubernetes CLI.1215
iredis - Redis CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.1199
litecli - SQLite CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
Libraries for migrating from Python 2 to 3.
1093
python-future - The missing compatibility layer between Python 2 and Python 3.700
six - Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities.542
python-modernize - Modernizes Python code for eventual Python 3 migration.
Libraries for Computer Vision.
48546
OpenCV - Open Source Computer Vision Library.36407
Face Recognition - Simple facial recognition library.8313
EasyOCR - Ready-to-use OCR with 40+ languages supported.3158
pytesseract - A wrapper for Google Tesseract OCR.2905
Kornia - Open Source Differentiable Computer Vision Library for PyTorch.2430
SimpleCV - An open source framework for building computer vision applications.1309
tesserocr - Another simple, Pillow-friendly, wrapper around thetesseract-ocr
API for OCR.
Libraries for concurrent and parallel execution. Also see awesome-asyncio.
33691
concurrent.futures - (Python standard library) A high-level interface for asynchronously executing callables.33691
multiprocessing - (Python standard library) Process-based parallelism.7164
uvloop - Ultra fast implementation ofasyncio
event loop on top oflibuv
.5292
gevent - A coroutine-based Python networking library that uses greenlet.957
eventlet - Asynchronous framework with WSGI support.471
scoop - Scalable Concurrent Operations in Python.
Libraries for storing and parsing configuration options.
33691
configparser - (Python standard library) INI file parser.2867
hydra - Hydra is a framework for elegantly configuring complex applications.1489
python-decouple - Strict separation of settings from code.231
configobj - INI file parser with validation.19
profig - Config from multiple formats with value conversion.
6509
paramiko - The leading native Python SSHv2 protocol library.3543
cryptography - A package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.719
pynacl - Python binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library.0
passlib - Secure password storage/hashing library, very high level.
Libraries for data analyzing.
26666
Pandas - A library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools.2896
Blaze - NumPy and Pandas interface to Big Data.2406
Orange - Data mining, data visualization, analysis and machine learning through visual programming or scripts.1099
Open Mining - Business Intelligence (BI) in Pandas interface.1057
AWS Data Wrangler - Pandas on AWS.934
Optimus - Agile Data Science Workflows made easy with PySpark.
Libraries for validating data. Used for forms in many cases.
2923
jsonschema - An implementation of JSON Schema for Python.2373
Schematics - Data Structure Validation.2189
Cerberus - A lightweight and extensible data validation library.2174
schema - A library for validating Python data structures.1634
voluptuous - A Python data validation library.393
colander - Validating and deserializing data obtained via XML, JSON, an HTML form post.237
valideer - Lightweight extensible data validation and adaptation library.
Libraries for visualizing data. Also see awesome-javascript.
14010
Bokeh - Interactive Web Plotting for Python.12225
Matplotlib - A Python 2D plotting library.8413
diagrams - Diagram as Code.7677
Seaborn - Statistical data visualization using Matplotlib.5971
Altair - Declarative statistical visualization library for Python.2908
bqplot - Interactive Plotting Library for the Jupyter Notebook2489
PyGraphviz - Python interface to Graphviz.2444
VisPy - High-performance scientific visualization based on OpenGL.2366
plotnine - A grammar of graphics for Python based on ggplot2.2255
Pygal - A Python SVG Charts Creator.2147
PyQtGraph - Interactive and realtime 2D/3D/Image plotting and science/engineering widgets.891
awesome-dash
789
Cartopy - A cartographic python library with matplotlib support150
Dash - Built on top of Flask, React and Plotly aimed at analytical web applications.
Databases implemented in Python.
3712
tinydb - A tiny, document-oriented database.494
pickleDB - A simple and lightweight key-value store for Python.422
ZODB - A native object database for Python. A key-value and object graph database.
Libraries for connecting and operating databases.
- MySQL - awesome-mysql
6142
PyMySQL - A pure Python MySQL driver compatible to mysql-python.1802
mysqlclient - MySQL connector with Python 3 support (mysql-python fork).
- PostgreSQL - awesome-postgres
- Other Relational Databases
647
SuperSQLite - A supercharged SQLite library built on top of apsw.529
pymssql - A simple database interface to Microsoft SQL Server.
- NoSQL Databases
8829
redis-py - The Python client for Redis.4022
kafka-python - The Python client for Apache Kafka.3113
pymongo - The official Python client for MongoDB.1179
cassandra-driver - The Python Driver for Apache Cassandra.557
py2neo - A client library and toolkit for working with Neo4j.546
happybase - A developer-friendly library for Apache HBase.
- Asynchronous Clients
1537
motor - The async Python driver for MongoDB.
Libraries for working with dates and times.
6281
Arrow - A Python library that offers a sensible and human-friendly approach to creating, manipulating, formatting and converting dates, times and timestamps.4103
Pendulum - Python datetimes made easy.3184
maya - Datetimes for Humans.1679
delorean - A library for clearing up the inconvenient truths that arise dealing with datetimes.1397
dateutil - Extensions to the standard Python datetime module.831
pytz - World timezone definitions, modern and historical. Brings the tz database into Python.651
moment - A Python library for dealing with dates/times. Inspired by Moment.js.309
Chronyk - A Python 3 library for parsing human-written times and dates.184
when.py - Providing user-friendly functions to help perform common date and time actions.137
PyTime - An easy-to-use Python module which aims to operate date/time/datetime by string.
Libraries for debugging code.
- pdb-like Debugger
- Tracing
1580
pyringe - Debugger capable of attaching to and injecting code into Python processes.664
lptrace - strace for Python programs.559
python-hunter - A flexible code tracing toolkit.293
manhole - Debugging UNIX socket connections and present the stacktraces for all threads and an interactive prompt.
- Profiler
5961
py-spy - A sampling profiler for Python programs. Written in Rust.3672
vprof - Visual Python profiler.3486
line_profiler - Line-by-line profiling.3004
profiling - An interactive Python profiler.2836
pyflame - A ptracing profiler For Python.57
memory_profiler - Monitor Memory usage of Python code.
- Others
6120
django-debug-toolbar - Display various debug information for Django.1551
icecream - Inspect variables, expressions, and program execution with a single, simple function call.1254
django-devserver - A drop-in replacement for Django's runserver.1069
pyelftools - Parsing and analyzing ELF files and DWARF debugging information.763
flask-debugtoolbar - A port of the django-debug-toolbar to flask.
Frameworks for Neural Networks and Deep Learning. Also see awesome-deep-learning.
148764
tensorflow - The most popular Deep Learning framework created by Google.49839
keras - A high-level neural networks library and capable of running on top of either TensorFlow or Theano.42667
pytorch - Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration.30884
caffe - A fast open framework for deep learning..19002
mxnet - A deep learning framework designed for both efficiency and flexibility.9225
Theano - A library for fast numerical computation.5696
SerpentAI - Game agent framework. Use any video game as a deep learning sandbox.
Software and libraries for DevOps.
- Configuration Management
44877
ansible - A radically simple IT automation platform.11252
saltstack - Infrastructure automation and management system.965
pyinfra - A versatile CLI tools and python libraries to automate infrastructure.698
cloudinit - A multi-distribution package that handles early initialization of a cloud instance.0
OpenStack - Open source software for building private and public clouds.
- SSH-style Deployment
- Process Management
6376
supervisor - Supervisor process control system for UNIX.1371
honcho - A Python clone of Foreman, for managing Procfile-based applications.
- Monitoring
6620
psutil - A cross-platform process and system utilities module.
- Backup
51
BorgBackup - A deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption.
- Others
20752
docker-compose - Fast, isolated development environments using Docker.
Frameworks and libraries for Distributed Computing.
- Batch Processing
27567
PySpark - Apache Spark Python API.13756
luigi - A module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs.13259
Ray - A system for parallel and distributed Python that unifies the machine learning ecosystem.7254
dask - A flexible parallel computing library for analytic computing.2509
mrjob - Run MapReduce jobs on Hadoop or Amazon Web Services.
- Stream Processing
4906
faust - A stream processing library, porting the ideas from Kafka Streams to Python.1416
streamparse - Run Python code against real-time streams of data via Apache Storm.
Libraries to create packaged executables for release distribution.
7199
PyInstaller - Converts Python programs into stand-alone executables (cross-platform).3352
Nuitka - Compile scripts, modules, packages to an executable or extension module.1389
dh-virtualenv - Build and distribute a virtualenv as a Debian package.1051
shiv - A command line utility for building fully self-contained zipapps (PEP 441), but with all their dependencies included.676
pyarmor - A tool used to obfuscate python scripts, bind obfuscated scripts to fixed machine or expire obfuscated scripts.618
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).
Libraries for generating project documentation.
3514
sphinx - Python Documentation generator.721
pycco - The literate-programming-style documentation generator.672
pdoc - Epydoc replacement to auto generate API documentation for Python libraries.
Libraries for downloading.
35092
you-get - A YouTube/Youku/Niconico video downloader written in Python 3.3432
s3cmd - A command line tool for managing Amazon S3 and CloudFront.2256
akshare - A financial data interface library, built for human beings!1027
s4cmd - Super S3 command line tool, good for higher performance.0
youtube-dl - A small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.
Frameworks and libraries for e-commerce and payments.
9124
saleor - An e-commerce storefront for Django.4569
django-oscar - An open-source e-commerce framework for Django.2308
django-shop - A Django based shop system.1381
shoop - An open source E-Commerce platform based on Django.954
merchant - A Django app to accept payments from various payment processors.618
Cartridge - A shopping cart app built using the Mezzanine.335
forex-python - Foreign exchange rates, Bitcoin price index and currency conversion.316
alipay - Unofficial Alipay API for Python.187
money -Money
class with optional CLDR-backed locale-aware formatting and an extensible currency exchange.44
python-currencies - Display money format and its filthy currencies.
- Emacs
1628
elpy - Emacs Python Development Environment.
- Sublime Text
2088
anaconda - Anaconda turns your Sublime Text 3 in a full featured Python development IDE.898
SublimeJEDI - A Sublime Text plugin to the awesome auto-complete library Jedi.
- Vim
21872
YouCompleteMe - Includes Jedi-based completion engine for Python.5100
python-mode - An all in one plugin for turning Vim into a Python IDE.4547
jedi-vim - Vim bindings for the Jedi auto-completion library for Python.
- Visual Studio
2292
PTVS - Python Tools for Visual Studio.
- Visual Studio Code
2715
Python - The official VSCode extension with rich support for Python.
- IDE
Libraries for sending and parsing email.
- Mail Servers
- Clients
- Others
Libraries for Python version and virtual environment management.
20811
pyenv - Simple Python version management.3685
virtualenv - A tool to create isolated Python environments.
Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.
33691
mimetypes - (Python standard library) Map filenames to MIME types.33691
pathlib - (Python standard library) An cross-platform, object-oriented path library.4306
watchdog - API and shell utilities to monitor file system events.1666
python-magic - A Python interface to the libmagic file type identification library.1135
PyFilesystem2 - Python's filesystem abstraction layer.918
path.py - A module wrapper for os.path.492
Unipath - An object-oriented approach to file/directory operations.
Libraries for providing foreign function interface.
33691
ctypes - (Python standard library) Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.2489
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.
Libraries for working with forms.
3983
django-crispy-forms - A Django app which lets you create beautiful forms in a very elegant and DRY way.2199
django-bootstrap3 - Bootstrap 3 integration with Django.1154
WTForms - A flexible forms validation and rendering library.801
django-bootstrap4 - Bootstrap 4 integration with Django.338
Deform - Python HTML form generation library influenced by the formish form generation library.199
django-remote-forms - A platform independent Django form serializer.
Functional Programming with Python.
3035
fn.py - Functional programming in Python: implementation of missing features to enjoy FP.3016
Coconut - A variant of Python built for simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming.2917
Toolz - A collection of functional utilities for iterators, functions, and dictionaries.2363
funcy - A fancy and practical functional tools.1549
more-itertools - More routines for operating on iterables, beyonditertools
.1350
returns - A set of type-safe monads, tranformers, and composition utilities.733
CyToolz - Cython implementation ofToolz
: High performance functional utilities.
Libraries for working with graphical user interface applications.
33691
curses - Built-in wrapper for ncurses used to create terminal GUI applications.10384
Gooey - Turn command line programs into a full GUI application with one line.4502
PySimpleGUI - Wrapper for tkinter, Qt, WxPython and Remi.3843
Eel - A library for making simple Electron-like offline HTML/JS GUI apps.2457
Toga - A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit.2410
Flexx - Flexx is a pure Python toolkit for creating GUI's, that uses web technology for its rendering.2118
DearPyGui - A Simple GPU accelerated Python GUI framework2008
urwid - A library for creating terminal GUI applications with strong support for widgets, events, rich colors, etc.1993
pywebview - A lightweight cross-platform native wrapper around a webview component.1417
wxPython - A blending of the wxWidgets C++ class library with the Python.956
enaml - Creating beautiful user-interfaces with Declarative Syntax like QML.562
pyglet - A cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python.0
kivy - A library for creating NUI applications, running on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android and iOS.0
Tkinter - Tkinter is Python's de-facto standard GUI package.0
PyGObject - Python Bindings for GLib/GObject/GIO/GTK+ (GTK+3).0
PyQt - Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework.
Libraries for working with GraphQL.
6040
graphene - GraphQL framework for Python.652
tartiflette - SDL-first GraphQL engine implementation for Python 3.6+ and asyncio.68
tartiflette-asgi - ASGI support for the Tartiflette GraphQL engine.48
tartiflette-aiohttp - Anaiohttp
-based wrapper for Tartiflette to expose GraphQL APIs over HTTP.
Awesome game development libraries.
14678
Cocos2d - cocos2d is a framework for building 2D games, demos, and other graphical/interactive applications.2409
Panda3D - 3D game engine developed by Disney.822
Arcade - Arcade is a modern Python framework for crafting games with compelling graphics and sound.138
PySDL2 - A ctypes based wrapper for the SDL2 library.0
Harfang3D - Python framework for 3D, VR and game development.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.
Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.
52247
GeoDjango - A world-class geographic web framework.3009
geopy - Python Geocoding Toolbox.880
django-countries - A Django app that provides a country field for models and forms.566
geojson - Python bindings and utilities for GeoJSON.481
pygeoip - Pure Python GeoIP API.210
GeoIP - Python API for MaxMind GeoIP Legacy Database.
Libraries for working with HTML and XML.
4112
xmltodict - Working with XML feel like you are working with JSON.3827
WeasyPrint - A visual rendering engine for HTML and CSS that can export to PDF.2489
cssutils - A CSS library for Python.1981
bleach - A whitelist-based HTML sanitization and text linkification library.1892
pyquery - A jQuery-like library for parsing HTML.856
html5lib - A standards-compliant library for parsing and serializing HTML documents and fragments.474
untangle - Converts XML documents to Python objects for easy access.340
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.0
lxml - A very fast, easy-to-use and versatile library for handling HTML and XML.
Libraries for working with HTTP.
43557
requests - HTTP Requests for Humans.5665
httpx - A next generation HTTP client for Python.3532
grequests - requests + gevent for asynchronous HTTP requests.2433
urllib3 - A HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post support, sanity friendly.505
treq - Python requests like API built on top of Twisted's HTTP client.378
httplib2 - Comprehensive HTTP client library.
Libraries for programming with hardware.
5619
scapy - A brilliant packet manipulation library.2073
keyboard - Hook and simulate global keyboard events on Windows and Linux.1082
ino - Command line toolkit for working with Arduino.932
PyUserInput - A module for cross-platform control of the mouse and keyboard.355
mouse - Hook and simulate global mouse events on Windows and Linux.270
wifi - A Python library and command line tool for working with WiFi on Linux.0
Pingo - Pingo provides a uniform API to program devices like the Raspberry Pi, pcDuino, Intel Galileo, etc.
Libraries for manipulating images.
7959
thumbor - A smart imaging service. It enables on-demand crop, re-sizing and flipping of images.7748
pillow - Pillow is the friendly PIL fork.4499
pywal - A tool that generates color schemes from images.3962
scikit-image - A Python library for (scientific) image processing.2229
python-qrcode - A pure Python QR Code generator.1016
wand - Python bindings for MagickWand, C API for ImageMagick.948
Quads - Computer art based on quadtrees.756
nude.py - Nudity detection.648
PyMatting - A library for alpha matting.260
pyvips - A fast image processing library with low memory needs.203
python-barcode - Create barcodes in Python with no extra dependencies.197
pagan - Retro identicon (Avatar) generation based on input string and hash.179
hmap - Image histogram remapping.94
pygram - Instagram-like image filters.0
imgSeek - A project for searching a collection of images using visual similarity.
Implementations of Python.
33691
CPython - Default, most widely used implementation of the Python programming language written in C.11174
MicroPython - A lean and efficient Python programming language implementation.10160
Grumpy - More compiler than interpreter as more powerful CPython2.7 replacement (alpha).5653
Numba - Python JIT compiler to LLVM aimed at scientific Python.4543
Pyston - A Python implementation using JIT techniques.1443
PeachPy - x86-64 assembler embedded in Python.1352
Pyjion - A JIT for Python based upon CoreCLR.1202
IronPython - Implementation of the Python programming language written in C#.641
Stackless Python - An enhanced version of the Python programming language.302
CLPython - Implementation of the Python programming language written in Common Lisp.0
Jython - Implementation of Python programming language written in Java for the JVM.0
PyPy - A very fast and compliant implementation of the Python language.0
Cython - Optimizing Static Compiler for Python.
Interactive Python interpreters (REPL).
5841
Jupyter Notebook (IPython) - A rich toolkit to help you make the most out of using Python interactively.3765
ptpython - Advanced Python REPL built on top of the python-prompt-toolkit.1854
awesome-jupyter
1572
bpython - A fancy interface to the Python interpreter.
Libraries for working with i18n.
919
Babel - An internationalization library for Python.118
PyICU - A wrapper of International Components for Unicode C++ library (ICU).
Libraries for scheduling jobs.
7740
schedule - Python job scheduling for humans.5046
Prefect - A modern workflow orchestration framework that makes it easy to build, schedule and monitor robust data pipelines.2921
APScheduler - A light but powerful in-process task scheduler that lets you schedule functions.2173
Joblib - A set of tools to provide lightweight pipelining in Python.1115
Plan - Writing crontab file in Python like a charm.907
Spiff - A powerful workflow engine implemented in pure Python.896
doit - A task runner and build tool.781
django-schedule - A calendaring app for Django.719
gunnery - Multipurpose task execution tool for distributed systems with web-based interface.23
Airflow - Airflow is a platform to programmatically author, schedule and monitor workflows.0
TaskFlow - A Python library that helps to make task execution easy, consistent and reliable.
Libraries for generating and working with logs.
33691
logging - (Python standard library) Logging facility for Python.6998
loguru - Library which aims to bring enjoyable logging in Python.1386
logbook - Logging replacement for Python.1340
structlog - Structured logging made easy.747
sentry-python - Sentry SDK for Python.
Libraries for Machine Learning. Also see awesome-machine-learning.
19844
xgboost - A scalable, portable, and distributed gradient boosting library.6127
NuPIC - Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing.4993
H2O - Open Source Fast Scalable Machine Learning Platform.2853
MindsDB - MindsDB is an open source AI layer for existing databases that allows you to effortlessly develop, train and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning models using standard queries.1362
Metrics - Machine learning evaluation metrics.634
Spark ML - Apache Spark's scalable Machine Learning library.157
vowpal_porpoise - A lightweight Python wrapper for Vowpal Wabbit.0
scikit-learn - The most popular Python library for Machine Learning.
Python programming on Microsoft Windows.
2544
PyWin32 - Python Extensions for Windows.2275
PythonNet - Python Integration with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR).53
pythonlibs - Unofficial Windows binaries for Python extension packages.0
Python(x,y) - Scientific-applications-oriented Python Distribution based on Qt and Spyder.0
WinPython - Portable development environment for Windows 7/8.
Useful libraries or tools that don't fit in the categories above.
15671
magenta - A tool to generate music and art using artificial intelligence.5245
boltons - A set of pure-Python utilities.2056
itsdangerous - Various helpers to pass trusted data to untrusted environments.1115
blinker - A fast Python in-process signal/event dispatching system.906
pluginbase - A simple but flexible plugin system for Python.0
tryton - A general purpose business framework.
Libraries for working with human languages.
- General
17262
spacy - A library for industrial-strength natural language processing in Python and Cython.11197
gensim - Topic Modeling for Humans.9263
nltk - A leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data.7604
pattern - A web mining module.5996
pytext - A natural language modeling framework based on PyTorch.4688
Stanza - The Stanford NLP Group's official Python library, supporting 60+ languages.1791
PyTorch-NLP - A toolkit enabling rapid deep learning NLP prototyping for research.1676
polyglot - Natural language pipeline supporting hundreds of languages.1652
langid.py - Stand-alone language identification system.
- Chinese
24758
funNLP - A collection of tools and datasets for Chinese NLP.24203
jieba - The most popular Chinese text segmentation library.5056
pkuseg-python - A toolkit for Chinese word segmentation in various domains.4956
snownlp - A library for processing Chinese text.
Tools and libraries for Virtual Networking and SDN (Software Defined Networking).
3554
mininet - A popular network emulator and API written in Python.1546
napalm - Cross-vendor API to manipulate network devices.503
pox - A Python-based SDN control applications, such as OpenFlow SDN controllers.
Libraries for building user's activities.
4382
Stream Framework - Building news feed and notification systems using Cassandra and Redis.1804
django-activity-stream - Generating generic activity streams from the actions on your site.
Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or data mapping techniques.
- Relational Databases
52247
Django Models - The Django ORM.7825
peewee - A small, expressive ORM.3893
dataset - Store Python dicts in a database - works with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.2772
SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper.2309
pony - ORM that provides a generator-oriented interface to SQL.2129
awesome-sqlalchemy
1125
orator - The Orator ORM provides a simple yet beautiful ActiveRecord implementation.1058
orm - An async ORM.327
pydal - A pure Python Database Abstraction Layer.
- NoSQL Databases
3265
mongoengine - A Python Object-Document-Mapper for working with MongoDB.1341
PynamoDB - A Pythonic interface for Amazon DynamoDB.433
redisco - A Python Library for Simple Models and Containers Persisted in Redis.266
hot-redis - Rich Python data types for Redis.
Libraries for package and dependency management.
12293
poetry - Python dependency management and packaging made easy.6556
pip - The package installer for Python.4501
pip-tools - A set of tools to keep your pinned Python dependencies fresh.
3818
conda - Cross-platform, Python-agnostic binary package manager.2489
PyPI
Local PyPI repository server and proxies.
2489
warehouse - Next generation Python Package Repository (PyPI).412
devpi - PyPI server and packaging/testing/release tool.370
localshop - Local PyPI server (custom packages and auto-mirroring of pypi).195
bandersnatch - PyPI mirroring tool provided by Python Packaging Authority (PyPA).
Frameworks and tools for penetration testing.
18235
sqlmap - Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool.6038
fsociety - A Penetration testing framework.5742
setoolkit - A toolkit for social engineering.
Libraries that allow or deny users access to data or functionality.
2750
django-guardian - Implementation of per object permissions for Django 1.2+1138
django-rules - A tiny but powerful app providing object-level permissions to Django, without requiring a database.
Libraries for starting and communicating with OS processes.
5437
sh - A full-fledged subprocess replacement for Python.3467
sarge - Yet another wrapper for subprocess.1510
delegator.py - Subprocesses for Humans 2.0.
Libraries for building recommender systems.
7595
annoy - Approximate Nearest Neighbors in C++/Python optimized for memory usage.4375
Surprise - A scikit for building and analyzing recommender systems.3302
lightfm - A Python implementation of a number of popular recommendation algorithms.2281
spotlight - Deep recommender models using PyTorch.2083
implicit - A fast Python implementation of collaborative filtering for implicit datasets.1450
libffm - A library for Field-aware Factorization Machine (FFM).1088
tensorrec - A Recommendation Engine Framework in TensorFlow.869
fastFM - A library for Factorization Machines.
Refactoring tools and libraries for Python
1193
Bowler - Safe code refactoring for modern Python.988
Rope - Rope is a python refactoring library.0
Bicycle Repair Man - Bicycle Repair Man, a refactoring tool for Python.
Libraries for building RESTful APIs.
- Django
18855
django-rest-framework - A powerful and flexible toolkit to build web APIs.3682
django-tastypie - Creating delicious APIs for Django apps.
- Flask
6190
eve - REST API framework powered by Flask, MongoDB and good intentions.5740
flask-restful - Quickly building REST APIs for Flask.1183
flask-api - Browsable Web APIs for Flask.
- Pyramid
359
cornice - A RESTful framework for Pyramid.
- Framework agnostic
21334
fastapi - A modern, fast, web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.14127
sanic - A Python 3.6+ web server and web framework that's written to go fast.8004
falcon - A high-performance framework for building cloud APIs and web app backends.6321
hug - A Python 3 framework for cleanly exposing APIs.5619
vibora - Fast, efficient and asynchronous Web framework inspired by Flask.5485
apistar - A smart Web API framework, designed for Python 3.1574
sandman2 - Automated REST APIs for existing database-driven systems.
Libraries for robotics.
10210
PythonRobotics - This is a compilation of various robotics algorithms with visualizations.486
rospy - This is a library for ROS (Robot Operating System).
RPC-compatible servers.
2682
zeroRPC - zerorpc is a flexible RPC implementation based on ZeroMQ and MessagePack.922
RPyC (Remote Python Call) - A transparent and symmetric RPC library for Python
Libraries for scientific computing. Also see Python-for-Scientists.
14976
NumPy - A fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.11981
Zipline - A Pythonic algorithmic trading library.7936
NetworkX - A high-productivity software for complex networks.7377
SymPy - A Python library for symbolic mathematics.5556
statsmodels - Statistical modeling and econometrics in Python.5282
PyMC - Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.2516
astropy - A community Python library for Astronomy.999
Colour - Implementing a comprehensive number of colour theory transformations and algorithms.965
Karate Club - Unsupervised machine learning toolbox for graph structured data.772
bcbio-nextgen - Providing best-practice pipelines for fully automated high throughput sequencing analysis.693
ObsPy - A Python toolbox for seismology.473
bccb - Collection of useful code related to biological analysis.215
PyDy - Short for Python Dynamics, used to assist with workflow in the modeling of dynamic motion.168
cclib - A library for parsing and interpreting the results of computational chemistry packages.1
SciPy - A Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.0
Open Babel - A chemical toolbox designed to speak the many languages of chemical data.0
Biopython - Biopython is a set of freely available tools for biological computation.0
RDKit - Cheminformatics and Machine Learning Software.0
SimPy - A process-based discrete-event simulation framework.0
NIPY - A collection of neuroimaging toolkits.0
QuTiP - Quantum Toolbox in Python.
Libraries and software for indexing and performing search queries on data.
3467
whoosh - A fast, pure Python search engine library.3039
django-haystack - Modular search for Django.3015
elasticsearch-dsl-py - The official high-level Python client for Elasticsearch.2945
elasticsearch-py - The official low-level Python client for Elasticsearch.566
pysolr - A lightweight Python wrapper for Apache Solr.
Libraries for serializing complex data types
5003
marshmallow - A lightweight library for converting complex objects to and from simple Python datatypes.2967
ultrajson - A fast JSON decoder and encoder written in C with Python bindings.397
python-rapidjson - A Python wrapper around RapidJSON.374
pysimdjson - A Python bindings for simdjson.
Frameworks for developing serverless Python code.
11065
Zappa - A tool for deploying WSGI applications on AWS Lambda and API Gateway.1175
python-lambda - A toolkit for developing and deploying Python code in AWS Lambda.
Libraries for parsing and manipulating specific text formats.
- General
3770
tablib - A module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML.
- Office
3467
openpyxl - A library for reading and writing Excel 2010 xlsx/xlsm/xltx/xltm files.2351
XlsxWriter - A Python module for creating Excel .xlsx files.2342
python-docx - Reads, queries and modifies Microsoft Word 2007/2008 docx files.1960
unoconv - Convert between any document format supported by LibreOffice/OpenOffice.1795
xlwings - A BSD-licensed library that makes it easy to call Python from Excel and vice versa.1139
python-pptx - Python library for creating and updating PowerPoint (.pptx) files.960
xlwt / xlrd - Writing and reading data and formatting information from Excel files.840
pyexcel - Providing one API for reading, manipulating and writing csv, ods, xls, xlsx and xlsm files.827
docxtpl - Editing a docx document by jinja2 template
- Markdown
2275
Python-Markdown - A Python implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown.1842
Mistune - Fastest and full featured pure Python parsers of Markdown.
- YAML
1213
PyYAML - YAML implementations for Python.
- CSV
4358
csvkit - Utilities for converting to and working with CSV.
- Archive
365
unp - A command line tool that can unpack archives easily.
Static site generator is a software that takes some text + templates as input and produces HTML files on the output.
10792
mkdocs - Markdown friendly documentation generator.9897
pelican - Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax.3335
lektor - An easy to use static CMS and blog engine.1958
nikola - A static website and blog generator.1442
makesite - Simple, lightweight, and magic-free static site/blog generator (< 130 lines).
Libraries for tagging items.
2458
django-taggit - Simple tagging for Django.
Libraries for working with task queues.
7277
rq - Simple job queues for Python.3173
huey - Little multi-threaded task queue.2204
daramatiq - A fast and reliable background task processing library for Python 3.819
mrq - A distributed worker task queue in Python using Redis & gevent.0
celery - An asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.
Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.
7275
Jinja2 - A modern and designer friendly templating language.90
Mako - Hyperfast and lightweight templating for the Python platform.0
Genshi - Python templating toolkit for generation of web-aware output.
Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.
- Testing Frameworks
33691
unittest - (Python standard library) Unit testing framework.6529
pytest - A mature full-featured Python testing tool.5053
Robot Framework - A generic test automation framework.4648
hypothesis - Hypothesis is an advanced Quickcheck style property based testing library.654
nose2 - The successor tonose
, based on `unittest2.
- Test Runners
- GUI / Web Testing
18711
Selenium - Python bindings for Selenium WebDriver.13864
locust - Scalable user load testing tool written in Python.4295
PyAutoGUI - PyAutoGUI is a cross-platform GUI automation Python module for human beings.2290
splinter - Open source tool for testing web applications.1649
sixpack - A language-agnostic A/B Testing framework.582
Schemathesis - A tool for automatic property-based testing of web applications built with Open API / Swagger specifications.
- Mock
33691
mock - (Python standard library) A mocking and patching library.2932
responses - A utility library for mocking out the requests Python library.2559
freezegun - Travel through time by mocking the datetime module.1810
httpretty - HTTP request mock tool for Python.1774
VCR.py - Record and replay HTTP interactions on your tests.410
httmock - A mocking library for requests for Python 2.6+ and 3.2+.197
mocket - A socket mock framework with gevent/asyncio/SSL support.3
doublex - Powerful test doubles framework for Python.
- Object Factories
2278
factory_boy - A test fixtures replacement for Python.937
model_mommy - Creating random fixtures for testing in Django.705
mixer - Another fixtures replacement. Supported Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Peewee and etc.
- Code Coverage
1312
coverage - Code coverage measurement.
- Fake Data
Libraries for parsing and manipulating plain texts.
- General
33691
difflib - (Python standard library) Helpers for computing deltas.7327
fuzzywuzzy - Fuzzy String Matching.2859
pypinyin - Convert Chinese hanzi (漢字) to pinyin (拼音).2763
ftfy - Makes Unicode text less broken and more consistent automagically.1782
textdistance - Compute distance between sequences with 30+ algorithms.1364
chardet - Python 2/3 compatible character encoding detector.865
Levenshtein - Fast computation of Levenshtein distance and string similarity.698
pyfiglet - An implementation of figlet written in Python.149
pangu.py - Paranoid text spacing.51
unidecode - ASCII transliterations of Unicode text.
- Slugify
911
python-slugify - A Python slugify library that translates unicode to ASCII.450
awesome-slugify - A Python slugify library that can preserve unicode.293
unicode-slugify - A slugifier that generates unicode slugs with Django as a dependency.
- Unique identifiers
- Parser
2538
python-phonenumbers - Parsing, formatting, storing and validating international phone numbers.2167
sqlparse - A non-validating SQL parser.1749
ply - Implementation of lex and yacc parsing tools for Python.1058
python-user-agents - Browser user agent parser.871
pyparsing - A general purpose framework for generating parsers.428
python-nameparser - Parsing human names into their individual components.389
pygments - A generic syntax highlighter.
Libraries for accessing third party services APIs. Also see List of Python API Wrappers and Libraries.
5782
boto3 - Python interface to Amazon Web Services.4949
gspread - Google Spreadsheets Python API.4082
google-api-python-client - Google APIs Client Library for Python.2546
facebook-sdk - Facebook Platform Python SDK.1744
twython - A Python wrapper for the Twitter API.1688
apache-libcloud - One Python library for all clouds.312
django-wordpress - WordPress models and views for Django.
Libraries for parsing URLs.
1869
furl - A small Python library that makes parsing and manipulating URLs easy.1064
webargs - A friendly library for parsing HTTP request arguments with built-in support for popular web frameworks.267
pyshorteners - A pure Python URL shortening lib.246
purl - A simple, immutable URL class with a clean API for interrogation and manipulation.
Libraries for manipulating video and GIFs.
1386
vidgear - Most Powerful multi-threaded Video Processing framework.102
scikit-video - Video processing routines for SciPy.0
moviepy - A module for script-based movie editing with many formats, including animated GIFs.
Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.
3467
fanstatic - Packages, optimizes, and serves static file dependencies as Python packages.2364
django-compressor - Compresses linked and inline JavaScript or CSS into a single cached file.1688
django-storages - A collection of custom storage back ends for Django.1372
django-pipeline - An asset packaging library for Django.885
webassets - Bundles, optimizes, and manages unique cache-busting URLs for static resources.401
flask-assets - Helps you integrate webassets into your Flask app.330
fileconveyor - A daemon to detect and sync files to CDNs, S3 and FTP.
Libraries for extracting web contents.
11187
requests-html - Pythonic HTML Parsing for Humans.10193
newspaper - News extraction, article extraction and content curation in Python.3050
toapi - Every web site provides APIs.2873
textract - Extract text from any document, Word, PowerPoint, PDFs, etc.2370
sumy - A module for automatic summarization of text documents and HTML pages.1873
python-readability - Fast Python port of arc90's readability tool.994
html2text - Convert HTML to Markdown-formatted text.506
lassie - Web Content Retrieval for Humans.500
micawber - A small library for extracting rich content from URLs.
Libraries to automate web scraping.
38352
scrapy - A fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework.14593
pyspider - A powerful spider system.7905
portia - Visual scraping for Scrapy.3569
MechanicalSoup - A Python library for automating interaction with websites.3483
robobrowser - A simple, Pythonic library for browsing the web without a standalone web browser.1972
grab - Site scraping framework.1375
cola - A distributed crawling framework.0
feedparser - Universal feed parser.
Traditional full stack web frameworks. Also see RESTful API.
- Synchronous
52247
Django - The most popular web framework in Python.52150
Flask - A microframework for Python.9202
awesome-flask2929
awesome-django
1443
Masonite - The modern and developer centric Python web framework.489
awesome-pyramid454
awesome-django
35
Pyramid - A small, fast, down-to-earth, open source Python web framework.
- Asynchronous
19439
Tornado - A web framework and asynchronous networking library.
Libraries for working with WebSocket.
4562
channels - Developer-friendly asynchrony for Django.2946
websockets - A library for building WebSocket servers and clients with a focus on correctness and simplicity.2212
autobahn-python - WebSocket & WAMP for Python on Twisted and asyncio.
WSGI-compatible web servers.
7166
gunicorn - Pre-forked, partly written in C.5448
werkzeug - A WSGI utility library for Python that powers Flask and can easily be embedded into your own projects.2420
bjoern - Asynchronous, very fast and written in C.833
waitress - Multi-threaded, powers Pyramid.604
uWSGI - A project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services, written in C.
Where to discover learning resources or new Python libraries.
- Tutorials
21643
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python2549
Full Stack Python2126
Ultimate Python study guide1105
Python Cheatsheet0
Real Python
- Libraries
- Others
557
Pythonic News417
Python ZEEF
21
Running in Production0
Django Chat0
Podcast.__init__0
Python Bytes0
Talk Python To Me0
Test and Code0
The Real Python Podcast
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