Random list of projects to keep in mind.
http://httpbin.org/ http://echohttp.com/ https://github.com/kadirpekel/hammock http://python-requests.org/ https://github.com/jkbr/httpie
http://docs.python-guide.org/ -- The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python!
https://github.com/kennethreitz/envoy -- Python Subprocesses for Humans
https://github.com/benoitc/gaffer
https://github.com/kennethreitz/tablib - Python Module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML, &c.
http://github.com/washort/parsley http://parsley.readthedocs.org/en/latest/