Awesome Python libs

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Imaging

• NodeBox - a nice lib to create images of graph networks
• Python Image Library

Scrapping/Parsing

• BeautfulSoup - HTML parser
• mechanize - automated web browsing
• Universal Feed Parser - the python parser for RSS and ATOM feeds

Protocols

• Phenny - IRC lib
• requests - HTTP requests for humans
• SleekXMPP - XMPP Python library

APIs

• boto - integrated interface for AWS

• eveapi - lib for EVE Online MMORPG API

• libcloud - a lib to standardized calls to different "cloud" providers

• pyblog - lib wrapper for RPC calls to the most popular blog providers

• py-github - lib for github

• pyposterous - lib for posterous.com lib

• tumblr.py - lib for tumblr.com API

• freebase - client API for accessing Freebase.com

• Social Graph - wrapper for the google Social Graph API

• geocoders - Ultra simple API for geocoding a single string against various web services

• twilio_python - A Python module for communicating with the Twilio API and generating TwiML

AI/Science

• Machine Learning Python - high-performance Python library for predictive modeling.
• MatPlotLib - a lib to generate plots
• scipy/numpy - Advanced scientific and math lib

Special use

• b85.py - a base 85 encoder decoder

• pyre2 - fast non-backtracking regular expression lib

• pymouse - mouse control

• FuzzyWuzzy - Fuzzy string matching

• JellyFish - approximate and phonetic matching of strings

• ssdeep - wrapper for ssdeep (CTPH - Context Triggered Piecewise Hashing)

Unsorted

• pybot - library for making bots that use mouse and keyboard, and interact with display
• pyutf8 - extension for dealing with validation and cleanup of UTF-8 strings