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

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Environment Management

Libraries for Python version and environment management.

• - Dead simple interactive Python version management.
• - Simple Python version management.
• - A one-file, no-installation-needed version of Python.
• - Run a command in the named virtualenv.
• - A tool to create isolated Python environments.
• - A set of extensions to virtualenv.

Package Management

Libraries for package and dependency management.

• - The Python package and dependency manager.
• - A set of tools to keep your pinned Python dependencies fresh.
• - Cross-platform, Python-agnostic binary package manager.
• - Curdling is a command line tool for managing Python packages.
• - The new standard of Python distribution and are intended to replace eggs.

Package Repositories

Local PyPI repository server and proxies.

• - Next generation Python Package Repository (PyPI).
• - PyPI mirroring tool provided by Python Packaging Authority (PyPA).
• - PyPI server and packaging/testing/release tool.
• - Local PyPI server (custom packages and auto-mirroring of pypi).

Distribution

Libraries to create packaged executables for release distribution.

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

Build Tools

Compile software from source code.

• - A build system for creating, assembling and deploying applications from multiple parts.
• - A make-like build tool for embedded Linux.
• - A build tool that finds dependencies automatically for any language.
• - A console tool to build code with different development platforms.
• - A continuous build tool written in pure Python.
• - A software construction tool.

Interactive Interpreter

Interactive Python interpreters (REPL).

• - A rich toolkit to help you make the most out of using Python interactively.
• – A fancy interface to the Python interpreter.
• - Advanced Python REPL built on top of the .

Files

Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.

• - (Python standard library) Determine the type of an image.
• - (Python standard library) Map filenames to MIME types.
• - A module wrapper for .
• - (Python standard library in Python 3.4+) An cross-platform, object-oriented path library.
• - A Python interface to the libmagic file type identification library.
• - An object-oriented approach to file/directory operations.
• - API and shell utilities to monitor file system events.

Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

• - Better dates & times for Python.
• - A Python 3 library for parsing human-written times and dates.
• - Extensions to the standard Python module.
• - A library for clearing up the inconvenient truths that arise dealing with datetimes.
• - A Python library for dealing with dates/times. Inspired by .
• - A easy-use Python module which aims to operate date/time/datetime by string.
• - World timezone definitions, modern and historical. Brings the into Python.
• - Providing user-friendly functions to help perform common date and time actions.

Text Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating plain texts.

• General
  • - Python 2/3 compatible character encoding detector.
  • - (Python standard library) Helpers for computing deltas.
  • - Regular expression accelerator.
  • - Makes Unicode text less broken and more consistent automagically.
  • - Fuzzy String Matching.
  • - Fast computation of Levenshtein distance and string similarity.
  • - Spacing texts for CJK and alphanumerics.
  • - An implementation of figlet written in Python.
  • - A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs.
  • - ASCII transliterations of Unicode text.
  • - Print readable chars instead of the escaped string.
  • - A library to translate Chinese hanzi (漢字) to pinyin (拼音).
• Slugify
  • - A Python slugify library that can preserve unicode.
  • - A Python slugify library that translates unicode to ASCII.
  • - A slugifier that generates unicode slugs with Django as a dependency.
• Parser
  • - Parsing, formatting, storing and validating international phone numbers.
  • - Implementation of lex and yacc parsing tools for Python
  • - A generic syntax highlighter.
  • - A general purpose framework for generating parsers.
  • - Parsing human names into their individual components.
  • - Browser user agent parser.
  • - A non-validating SQL parser.

Specific Formats Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating specific text formats.

• General
  • - A module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML.
• Office
  • - Takes Python data structures and turns them into spreadsheets.
  • - A library for reading and writing Excel 2010 xlsx/xlsm/xltx/xltm files.
  • - Reads, queries and modifies Microsoft Word 2007/2008 docx files.
  • - Convert between any document format supported by LibreOffice/OpenOffice.
  • - A Python module for creating Excel .xlsx files.
  • - A BSD-licensed library that makes it easy to call Python from Excel and vice versa.
  • / - Writing and reading data and formatting information from Excel files.
  • - Templating OpenDocument files.
• PDF
  • - A tool for extracting information from PDF documents.
  • - A library capable of splitting, merging and transforming PDF pages.
  • - Allowing Rapid creation of rich PDF documents.
• Markdown
  • - Fastest and full featured pure Python parsers of Markdown.
  • - A Python implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown.
• YAML
  • - YAML implementations for Python.
• CSV
  • - Utilities for converting to and working with CSV.
• Archive
  • - A command line tool that can unpack archives easily.

Natural Language Processing

Libraries for working with human languages.

• - A leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data.
• - Chinese Words Segmentation Utilities.
• - Stand-alone language identification system.
• - A web mining module for the Python.
• - A library for processing Chinese text.
• - Providing a consistent API for diving into common NLP tasks.

Documentation

Libraries for generating project documentation.

• - Python Documentation generator.
• - Markdown friendly documentation generator.
• - Epydoc replacement to auto generate API documentation for Python libraries.
• - The literate-programming-style documentation generator.

Configuration

Libraries for storing and parsing configuration options.

• - Hierarchical config from the author of .
• - INI file parser with validation.
• - (Python standard library) INI file parser.
• - Config from multiple formats with value conversion.
• - Strict separation of settings from code.

Command-line Tools

Libraries for building command-line application.

• Command-line Application Development
  • - CLI Application Framework for Python.
  • - A package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way.
  • - A framework for creating command-line programs with multi-level commands.
  • – Converting any module into a multi-command CLI app without any configuration.
  • - Python Command-line Application Tools.
  • - Cross-platform colored terminal text.
  • - Pythonic command line arguments parser.
  • - Turn command line programs into a full GUI application with one line
  • - Command-line applications supporting standard command line parsing, logging, unit and functional testing.
  • - A Library for building powerful interactive command lines.
• Productivity Tools
  • - A universal command-line interface for Amazon Web Services.
  • - Making basic plots in the terminal.
  • - Determine what projects are blocking you from porting to Python 3.
  • - A command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates). E.g. Python package projects, jQuery plugin projects.
  • - A tool for live presentations in the terminal.
  • - A command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement.
  • - Select files out of bash output.
  • - Adds flavor of interactive selection to the traditional pipe concept on UNIX.
  • - A Supercharged AWS CLI.
  • - Correcting your previous console command.

Downloader

Libraries for downloading.

• - A command line tool for managing Amazon S3 and CloudFront.
• - Super S3 command line tool, good for higher performance.
• - A YouTube/Youku/Niconico video downloader written in Python 3.
• - A small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.

Imagery

Libraries for manipulating images.

• - Pillow is the friendly fork.
• - Image histogram remapping.
• - A project for searching a collection of images using visual similarity.
• - Nudity detection.
• - Create barcodes in Python without needing PIL.
• - Instagram-like image filters.
• - A pure Python QR Code generator.
• - Computer art based on quadtrees.
• - A Python library for (scientific) image processing.
• - A smart imaging service. It enables on-demand crop, re-sizing and flipping of images.
• - Python bindings for , C API for ImageMagick.

OCR

Libraries for Optical Character Recognition.

• - A wrapper for Tesseract and Cuneiform.
• - Another wrapper for Google Tesseract OCR.
• - A wrapper class for .

Audio

Libraries for manipulating audio.

• - Expressive Digital Signal Processing (DSP) package for Python.
• - Cross-library (GStreamer + Core Audio + MAD + FFmpeg) audio decoding.
• - A music library manager and tagger.
• - Audio fingerprinting and recognition.
• - Django + .
• - A tool for working with audio files, specifically MP3 files containing ID3 metadata.
• - A Python module for reading MP3 meta data.
• - A module for parsing m3u8 file.
• - A Python module to handle audio metadata.
• - Manipulate audio with a simple and easy high level interface.
• - Python client for the API.
• - A Python library for speech/signal processing.
• - Open web audio processing framework.
• - A library for reading music meta data of MP3, OGG, FLAC and Wave files.
• - An advanced music theory and notation package with MIDI file and playback support.

Video

Libraries for manipulating video and GIFs.

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

Geolocation

Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

• - A world-class geographic web framework.
• - Python API for MaxMind GeoIP Legacy Database.
• - Python bindings and utilities for GeoJSON.
• - Python Geocoding Toolbox.
• - Pure Python GeoIP API.
• - A Django app that provides country choices for use with forms, flag icons static files, and a country field for models.

HTTP

Libraries for working with HTTP.

• - HTTP Requests for Humans™.
• - requests + gevent for asynchronous HTTP requests.
• - Comprehensive HTTP client library.
• - Python requests like API built on top of Twisted's HTTP client.
• - A HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post support, sanity friendly.

Database

Databases implemented in Python.

• - A simple and lightweight key-value store for Python.
• - The Streaming SQL Database.
• - A tiny, document-oriented database.
• - A native object database for Python. A key-value and object graph database.

Database Drivers

Libraries for connecting and operating databases.

• MySQL -
  • - The MySQL database connector for Python.
  • - mysql-python fork supporting Python 3.
  • - A better MySQL connector with support for native prepared statements and BLOBs.
  • - Pure Python MySQL driver compatible to mysql-python.
• PostgreSQL
  • - The most popular PostgreSQL adapter for Python.
  • - A wrapper of the psycopg2 library for interacting with PostgreSQL.
  • - Twisted based asynchronous driver for PostgreSQL.
• Other Relational Databases
  • - Another Python SQLite wrapper.
  • - Store Python dicts in a database - works with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
  • - A simple database interface to Microsoft SQL Server.
• NoSQL Databases
  • - Python driver for Cassandra.
  • - A developer-friendly library for Apache HBase.
  • - A fast and feature-rich Python interface to LevelDB.
  • - Python wrapper client for Neo4j's restful interface.
  • - Python Thrift driver for Cassandra.
  • - The official Python client for MongoDB.
  • - The Redis Python Client.
  • - Twisted based client for Cassandra.
  • - Twisted based client for Redis.

ORM

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

• Relational Databases
  • - A part of Django.
  • - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper.
  • - A small, expressive ORM.
  • - ORM that provides a generator-oriented interface to SQL.
  • - Write SQL queries pythonically.
• NoSQL Databases
  • - Django MongoDB Backend.
  • - A Pythonic interface for .
  • - Object mapper for Amazon DynamoDB.
  • - A Python Object-Document-Mapper for working with MongoDB.
  • - Rich Python data types for Redis.
  • - A Python Library for Simple Models and Containers Persisted in Redis.
• Others
  • - A Python ORM for Google Drive Spreadsheets.

Web Frameworks

Full stack web frameworks.

• - The most popular web framework in Python.
• - A microframework for Python.
• - A small, fast, down-to-earth, open source Python web framework.
• - A fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework.
• - A minimalist Python web framework, HTTP/1.1-compliant and WSGI thread-pooled.
• - A microframework that can scale up to a full stack solution.
• - A web framework for Python that is as simple as it is powerful.
• - A full stack web framework and platform focused in the ease of use.
• - A Web framework and asynchronous networking library.

Permissions

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

• - Module to align code with thoughts of users and designers. Also magically handles navigation and permissions.
• - Implementation of per object permissions for Django 1.2+
• - A tiny but powerful app providing object-level permissions to Django, without requiring a database.

CMS

Content Management Systems.

• - An Open source enterprise CMS based on the Django.
• - A lightweight but yet powerful Django CMS with plugins, inline editing and performance in mind.
• - One of the most advanced Content Management Systems built on Django.
• - A high-level, Pythonic web application framework built on Pyramid.
• - A powerful, consistent, and flexible content management platform.
• - A Django-based CMS for magazines, newspapers websites and portals with high-traffic.
• - A CMS built on top of the open source application server Zope.
• - Flexible, extensible, small CMS powered by Flask and MongoDB.
• - A Django content management system.
• - Last CMS framework, based on Django.

E-commerce

Frameworks and libraries for e-commerce and payments.

• - An open-source e-commerce framework for Django.
• - A Django based shop system.
• - A shopping cart app built using the Mezzanine.
• - An open source E-Commerce platform based on Django.
• - Unofficial Alipay API for Python.
• - A Django app to accept payments from various payment processors.
• - Money class with optional CLDR-backed locale-aware formatting and an extensible currency exchange solution.
• - Display money format and its filthy currencies.

RESTful API

Libraries for developing RESTful APIs.

• Django
  • - A powerful and flexible toolkit to build web APIs.
  • - Creating delicious APIs for Django apps.
  • - Create JSON APIs with Django's form validation.
• Flask
  • - Browsable Web APIs for Flask.
  • - Quickly building REST APIs for Flask.
  • - Generating RESTful APIs for database models defined with SQLAlchemy.
  • - Taking care of API representation and authentication for Flask.
  • - REST API framework powered by Flask, MongoDB and good intentions.
• Pyramid
  • - A REST framework for Pyramid.
• Framework agnostic
  • - A high-performance framework for building cloud APIs and web app backends.
  • - Automated REST APIs for existing database-driven systems.
  • - Framework agnostic REST framework based on lessons learned from Tastypie.
  • - Quickly creating REST/HATEOAS/Hypermedia APIs.

Authentication

Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.

• OAuth
  • - Simple but powerful framework agnostic authentication/authorization client.
  • - Authentication app for Django that "just works."
  • - OAuth2 goodies for the Djangonauts.
  • - Providing OAuth2 access to Django app.
  • - OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0 implementation of client and provider for Flask.
  • - A generic and thorough implementation of the OAuth request-signing logic.
  • - A fully tested, abstract interface to creating OAuth clients and servers.
  • - An easy-to-setup social authentication mechanism.
  • - A Python library for OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0, and Ofly.
  • - A dead simple OAuth2 client implementation.
• Others
  • - JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption draft implementation.
  • - Implementation of the JSON Web Token draft 01.
  • - Implementation of JSON Web Signatures draft 02.
  • - Module for generating and verifying JSON Web Tokens.

Template Engine

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.

• - A modern and designer friendly templating language.
• - An HTML/XML template engine. Modeled after ZPT, optimized for speed.
• - Python templating toolkit for generation of web-aware output.
• - Hyperfast and lightweight templating for the Python platform.
• - A very fast Python template compiler.

Queue

Libraries for working with event and task queues.

• - An asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.
• - Little multi-threaded task queue.
• - Mr. Queue - A distributed worker task queue in Python using Redis & gevent.
• - Simple job queues for Python.
• - A simple, infinitely scalable, Amazon SQS based queue.

Search

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

• - Modular search for Django.
• - The official low-level Python client for .
• - The official high-level Python client for Elasticsearch.
• - A Python client for .
• - A fast, pure Python search engine library.

News Feed

Libraries for building user's activities.

• - Generating generic activity streams from the actions on your site.
• - Building newsfeed and notification systems using Cassandra and Redis.

Asset Management

Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.

• - Compresses linked and inline JavaScript or CSS into a single cached file.
• - A collection of custom storage back ends for Django.
• - Packages, optimizes, and serves static file dependencies as Python packages.
• - A daemon to detect and sync files to CDNs, S3 and FTP.
• - Helps you integrate webassets into your Flask app.
• - Glue is a simple command line tool to generate CSS sprites.
• - A Jinja extension to compile and compress your assets.
• - Bundles, optimizes, and manages unique cache-busting URLs for static resources.

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

• - A library for caching and sessions for use with web applications and stand-alone Python scripts and applications.
• - Automatic caching and invalidation for Django models.
• - A slick ORM cache with automatic granular event-driven invalidation.
• - Render template parts with extended cache control.
• - dogpile.cache is next generation replacement for Beaker made by same authors.
• - Python caching library with tag-based invalidation and dogpile effect prevention.
• - A caching framework for django applications.
• - A Python wrapper around the interface.

Email

Libraries for sending and parsing email.

• - Django email back end with AWS SES and Celery.
• - Mailing for human beings.
• - A email address and Mime parsing library.
• - Python IMAP for Humans.
• - Python SMTP Server for Humans.
• - The open source email toolkit.
• - Pythonic SMTP Application Server.
• - Mailjet API implementation for batch mailing, statistics and more.
• - High-performance extensible mail delivery framework.
• - A mail hosting and management platform including a modern and simplified Web UI.
• - Compose, send and parse emails.
• - Mailgun library to extract message quotations and signatures.

Internationalization

Libraries for working with i18n.

• - An internationalization library for Python.
• - A library for morphology.

URL Manipulation

Libraries for parsing URLs.

• - A small Python library that makes manipulating URLs simple.
• - A simple, immutable URL class with a clean API for interrogation and manipulation.
• - A pure Python URL shortening lib.
• - Python implementation for generating Tiny URL and bit.ly-like URLs.
• - A friendly library for parsing HTTP request arguments, with built-in support for popular web frameworks, including Flask, Django, Bottle, Tornado, and Pyramid.

HTML Manipulation

Libraries for working with HTML and XML.

• - Providing Pythonic idioms for iterating, searching, and modifying HTML or XML.
• - A whitelist-based HTML sanitization and text linkification library.
• - A CSS library for Python.
• - A standards-compliant library for parsing and serializing HTML documents and fragments.
• - A very fast, easy-to-use and versatile library for handling HTML and XML.
• - Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python.
• - A jQuery-like library for parsing HTML.
• - Converts XML documents to Python objects for easy access.
• - HTML/CSS to PDF converter.
• - Working with XML feel like you are working with JSON.

Web Crawling

Libraries for scraping websites.

• - A fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework.
• - A distributed crawling framework.
• - PyQuery-based scraping micro-framework.
• - Universal feed parser.
• - Site scraping framework.
• - A Python library for automating interaction with websites.
• - Visual scraping for Scrapy.
• - A powerful spider system.
• - A simple, Pythonic library for browsing the web without a standalone web browser.

Web Content Extracting

Libraries for extracting web contents.

• - An Extensible Image Crawler.
• - Convert HTML to Markdown-formatted text.
• - Web Content Retrieval for Humans.
• - A small library for extracting rich content from URLs.
• - News extraction, article extraction and content curation in Python.
• - A Python module to parse the Open Graph Protocol
• - HTML Content/Article Extractor.
• - Fast Python port of arc90's readability tool.
• - Bringing sanity to world of messed-up data.
• - A module for automatic summarization of text documents and HTML pages.
• - Extract text from any document, Word, PowerPoint, PDFs, etc.

Forms

Libraries for working with forms.

• - Python HTML form generation library influenced by the formish form generation library.
• - Bootstrap 3 integration with Django.
• - A Django app which lets you create beautiful forms in a very elegant and DRY way.
• - A platform independent Django form serializer.
• - A flexible forms validation and rendering library.
• - A WTForms extension for JSON data handling.

Data Validation

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

• - A mappings-validator with a variety of rules, normalization-features and simple customization that uses a pythonic schema-definition.
• - A system for validating and deserializing data obtained via XML, JSON, an HTML form post or any other equally simple data serialization.
• - A language for matching/validating/filtering Python dictionaries.
• - A library for validating Python data structures.
• - Data Structure Validation.
• - Lightweight extensible data validation and adaptation library.
• - A Python data validation library. It is primarily intended for validating data coming into Python as JSON, YAML, etc.

Anti-spam

Libraries for fighting spam.

• - A simple and highly customizable Django app to add captcha images to any Django form.
• - Simple spam blocker for Django.

Tagging

Libraries for tagging items.

• - Simple tagging for Django.

Admin Panels

Libraries for administrative interfaces.

• - The admin panel your servers deserve.
• - Alternative Django Admin-Interface (free only for Non-commercial use).
• - Drop-in replacement of Django admin comes with lots of goodies.
• - Simple and extensible administrative interface framework for Flask.
• - Real-time monitor and web admin for Celery.
• – A jazzy skin for the Django Admin-Interface.
• - A Django app which creates automatic web UIs for Python scripts.

Static Site Generator

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

• - Uses Markdown or ReST for content and Jinja 2 for themes. Supports DVCS, Disqus. AGPL.
• – Static site generator for designers.
• - Jinja2-based static web site generator.
• - A static website and blog generator.
• - Tinkerer is a blogging engine/.static website generator powered by Sphinx.

Processes

Libraries for starting and communicating with OS processes.

• - Python for Humans™.
• - Yet another wrapper for subprocess.
• - A full-fledged subprocess replacement for Python.

Concurrency and Parallelism

Libraries for concurrent and parallel execution.

• - (Python standard library) Process-based "threading" interface.
• - (Python standard library) Higher-level threading interface.
• - Asynchronous framework with WSGI support.
• - A coroutine-based Python networking library that uses .
• - Magic decorator syntax for asynchronous code.

Networking

Libraries for networking programming.

• - (Python standard library) Asynchronous I/O, event loop, coroutines and tasks.
• - An event-driven networking engine.
• - Event-driven concurrent framework for Python.
• - Greenlet-based event I/O Framework for Python.
• - A Python wrapper for the ZeroMQ message library.
• - Twisted based wrapper for the ZeroMQ message library.

WebSocket

Libraries for working with WebSocket.

• - WebSocket & WAMP for Python on Twisted and .
• - Open-source Unified Application Router (Websocket & WAMP for Python on Autobahn).
• - WebSockets for Django.
• - WebSocket client and server library for Python 2 and 3 as well as PyPy.

WSGI Servers

WSGI-compatible web servers.

• - Pre-forked, partly written in C.
• - A project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services, written in C.
• - Asynchronous, very fast and written in C.
• - Asynchronous (network side only), written in C.
• - Asynchronous, partly written in C.
• - Asynchronous, very fast.
• - Multi-threaded, stable, tried and tested.
• - Multi-threaded.
• - Multi-threaded, poweres Pyramid.
• - A WSGI utility library for Python that powers Flask and can easily be embedded into your own projects.

RPC Servers

RPC-compatible servers.

• - This library is an implementation of the JSON-RPC specification.
• - (Python standard library) Simple XML-RPC server implementation, single-threaded.
• - zerorpc is a flexible RPC implementation based on and .

Cryptography

• - A package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.
• - Implementation of in Python.
• - A Python (2.6+, 3.3+) implementation of the SSHv2 protocol, providing both client and server functionality.
• - Secure password storage/hashing library, very high level.
• - The Python Cryptography Toolkit.
• - Python binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library.

GUI

Libraries for working with graphical user interface applications.

• - Built-in wrapper for used to create terminal GUI applications.
• - Creating beautiful user-interfaces with Declaratic Syntax like QML.
• - A library for creating NUI applications, running on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android and iOS.
• - A cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python.
• - Python bindings for the cross-platform application and UI framework, with support for both Qt v4 and Qt v5 frameworks.
• - Python bindings for the cross-platform application and UI framework, supporting the Qt v4 framework.
• - Tkinter is Python's de-facto standard GUI package.
• - A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit.
• - A library for creating terminal GUI applications with strong support for widgets, events, rich colors, etc.
• - A blending of the wxWidgets C++ class library with the Python.
• - Python Bindings for GLib/GObject/GIO/GTK+ (GTK+3)
• - Flexx is a pure Python toolkit for creating GUI's, that uses web technology for its rendering.

Game Development

Awesome game development libraries.

• - cocos2d is a framework for building 2D games, demos, and other graphical/interactive applications. It is based on pyglet.
• - 3D game engine developed by Disney and maintained by Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center. Written in C++, completely wrapped in Python.
• - Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing games.
• - Python bindings for the Ogre 3D render engine, can be used for games, simulations, anything 3D.
• - Python ctypes bindings for OpenGL and it's related APIs.
• - A ctypes based wrapper for the SDL2 library.
• - Python bindings for
• - A Visual Novel engine.

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with logs.

• - (Python standard library) Logging facility for Python.
• - Logging replacement for Python.
• - Logging for complex & distributed systems.
• - The Python client for Sentry.
• - A realtime logging and aggregation server.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• Testing Frameworks
  • - (Python standard library) Unit testing framework.
  • - nose extends unittest.
  • - A BDD framework for Python 3.3+. Inspired by C#'sMachine.Specifications.
  • - Hypothesis is an advanced Quickcheck style property based testing library.
  • - The definitive testing tool for Python. Born under the banner of BDD.
  • - PyAutoGUI is a cross-platform GUI automation Python module for human beings.
  • - Should style asserts based on .
  • - A mature full-featured Python testing tool.
  • - A clean, colorful test runner.
  • - BDD style testing for Python. Inspired by .
  • - A generic test automation framework.
• Web Testing
  • - Python bindings for WebDriver.
  • - Scalable user load testing tool written in Python.
  • - A language-agnostic A/B Testing framework.
  • - Open source tool for testing web applications.
• Mock
  • - (Python standard library) A mocking and patching library.
  • - Powerful test doubles framework for Python.
  • - Travel through time by mocking the datetime module.
  • - A mocking library for requests for Python 2.6+ and 3.2+.
  • - HTTP request mock tool for Python.
  • - A utility library for mocking out the requests Python library.
  • - Record and replay HTTP interactions on your tests.
• Object Factories
  • - A test fixtures replacement for Python.
  • - Another fixtures replacement. Supported Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Peewee and etc.
  • - Creating random fixtures for testing in Django.
• Code Coverage
  • - Code coverage measurement.
• Fake Data
  • - A Python package that generates fake data.
  • - Fake database generator.
  • - Generate random datetime / time.
• Error Handler
  • - FuckIt.py uses state-of-the-art technology to make sure your Python code runs whether it has any right to or not.

Code Analysis and Linter

Libraries and tools for analysing, parsing and manipulation codebases.

• Code Analysis
  • - Turn your Python and JavaScript code into DOT flowcharts.
  • - A library that visualises the flow (call graph) of your Python application.
  • - A type inferencer and indexer for Python.
• Linter
  • - The modular source code checker: pep8, pyflakes and co.
  • - A Fully customizable source code analyzer.
  • - Code audit tool for Python and JavaScript.

Debugging Tools

Libraries for debugging code.

• Debugger
  • - IPython-enabled .
  • – A full-screen, console-based Python debugger.
  • - Debugger capable of attaching to and injecting code into Python processes.
  • - An improbable web debugger through WebSockets.
  • - A Python Debugger with GUI, capable of remote debugging based onrpdb2.
  • - Display various debug information for Django.
  • - A drop-in replacement for Django's runserver.
  • - A port of the django-debug-toolbar to flask.
• Profiler
  • - Line-by-line profiling.
  • - Monitor Memory usage of Python code.
  • - An interactive Python profiler.
• Others
  • - Parsing and analyzing ELF files and DWARF debugging information.
  • - Python Client for the server.

Science and Data Analysis

Libraries for scientific computing and data analyzing.

• - A community Python library for Astronomy.
• - A toolkit providing best-practice pipelines for fully automated high throughput sequencing analysis.
• - Collection of useful code related to biological analysis.
• - Biopython is a set of freely available tools for biological computation.
• - NumPy and Pandas interface to Big Data.
• - A library for parsing and interpreting the results of computational chemistry packages.
• - A high-productivity software for complex networks.
• - Running and testing different Artificial Neural Networks algorithms.
• - Python JIT (just in time) complier to LLVM aimed at scientific Python by the developers of Cython and NumPy.
• - A fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.
• - A chemical toolbox designed to speak the many languages of chemical data.
• - Business Intelligence (BI) in Python (Pandas web interface)
• - Data mining, data visualization, analysis and machine learning through visual programming or Python scripting.
• - A library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools.
• - Short for Python Dynamics, used to assist with workflow in the modeling of dynamic motion based around NumPy, SciPy, IPython, and matplotlib.
• - Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.
• - Cheminformatics and Machine Learning Software.
• - A Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.
• - Statistical modeling and econometrics in Python.
• - A Python library for symbolic mathematics.
• - A Pythonic algorithmic trading library.

Data Visualization

Libraries for visualizing data. See: .

• - A Python 2D plotting library.
• - Interactive Web Plotting for Python.
• - Same API as ggplot2 for R.
• - Collaborative web plotting for Python and matplotlib.
• - A Python SVG Charts Creator.
• - Python interface to .
• - Interactive and realtime 2D/3D/Image plotting and science/engineering widgets.
• - A browser based graphical viewer for the output of Python's cProfile module.
• - A Python to Vega translator.
• - High-performance scientific visualization based on OpenGL.

Computer Vision

Libraries for computer vision.

• - Open Source Computer Vision Library.
• - An open source framework for building computer vision applications.

Machine Learning

Libraries for Machine Learning. See: .

• - A flexible, fast recommender engine.
• - Topic Modelling for Humans.
• - GPU-Accelerated Deep Learning Library in Python.
• - Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing.
• - Web mining module for Python.
• - Another Python Machine Learning Library.
• - A Machine Learning library based on .
• - A Python library for implementing a Recommender System.
• - A Python module for machine learning built on top of SciPy.
• - A lightweight Python wrapper for .

MapReduce

Framworks and libraries for MapReduce.

• - Python clone of Spark, a MapReduce alike framework in Python.
• - Python module that allows one to easily write and run Hadoop programs.
• - A module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs.
• - Run MapReduce jobs on Hadoop or Amazon Web Services.
• - The Spark Python API.
• - Run Python code against real-time streams of data. Integrates with .

Functional Programming

Functional Programming with Python.

• - Cython implementation of Toolz: High performance functional utilities.
• - Functional programming in Python: implementation of missing features to enjoy FP.
• - A fancy and practical functional tools.
• - A collection of functional utilities for iterators, functions, and dictionaries.

Third-party APIs

Libraries for accessing third party services APIs. See: .

• - One Python library for all clouds.
• - Python interface to Amazon Web Services.
• - WordPress models and views for Django.
• - Facebook Platform Python SDK.
• - Facepy makes it really easy to interact with Facebook's Graph API
• - A Pythonic interface for Gmail.
• - Google APIs Client Library for Python.
• - Google Spreadsheets Python API.
• - A Python wrapper for the Twitter API.

DevOps Tools

Software and libraries for DevOps.

• - A radically simple IT automation platform.
• - Infrastructure automation and management system.
• - Open source software for building private and public clouds.
• - Fast, isolated development environments using .
• - A simple, Pythonic tool for remote execution and deployment.
• - Chef-like functionality for Fabric.
• - Tools for writing awesome Fabric files.
• - Pure-Python API for Git.
• - Pure-Python API for Mercurial.
• - A Python clone of , for managing Procfile-based applications.
• - Controlling interactive programs in a pseudo-terminal like GNU expect.
• - A cross-platform process and system utilities module.
• - Supervisor process control system for UNIX.

Job Scheduler

Libraries for scheduling jobs.

• - A light but powerful in-process task scheduler that lets you schedule functions.
• - A calendaring app for Django.
• - A task runner and build tool.
• - Multipurpose task execution tool for distributed systems with web-based interface.
• - A set of tools to provide lightweight pipelining in Python.
• - Writing crontab file in Python like a charm.
• - Python job scheduling for humans.
• - A powerful workflow engine implemented in pure Python.
• - A Python library that helps to make task execution easy, consistent and reliable.

Foreign Function Interface

Libraries for providing foreign function interface.

• - Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.
• - (Python standard library) Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.
• - A Python wrapper for Nvidia's CUDA API.
• - Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator.

High Performance

Libraries for making Python faster.

• - Optimizing Static Compiler for Python. Uses type mixins to compile Python into C or C++ modules resulting in large performance gains.
• - 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.
• - An implementation of Python in Python. The interpreter uses black magic to make Python very fast without having to add in additional type information.
• - A Python implementation built using LLVM and modern JIT techniques with the goal of achieving good performance.
• - An enhanced version of the Python.

Microsoft Windows

Python programming on Microsoft Windows.

• - Scientific-applications-oriented Python Distribution based on Qt and Spyder.
• - Unofficial Windows binaries for Python extension packages.
• - Python Integration with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR).
• - Python Extensions for Windows.
• - Portable development environment for Windows 7/8.

Network Virtualization and SDN

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

• - A popular network emulator and API written in Python.
• - An open source development platform for Python-based Software Defined Networking (SDN) control applications, such as OpenFlow SDN controllers.
• - A member of the Frenetic family of SDN programming languages that provides powerful abstractions over network switches or emulators.
• - SDN based IXP implementation that leverages Mininet, POX and Pyretic.

Hardware

Libraries for programming with hardware.

• - Command line toolkit for working with .
• - Python Robotics.
• - A module for cross-platform control of the mouse and keyboard.
• - A brilliant packet manipulation library.
• - A Python library and command line tool for working with WiFi on Linux.
• - Pingo provides a uniform API to program devices like the Raspberry Pi, pcDuino, Intel Galileo, etc.

Compatibility

Libraries for migrating from Python 2 to 3.

• - The missing compatibility layer between Python 2 and Python 3.
• - Modernizes Python code for eventual Python 3 migration.
• - Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities.

Miscellaneous

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

• - A fast Python in-process signal/event dispatching system.
• - Various helpers to pass trusted data to untrusted environments.
• - A simple but flexible plugin system for Python.
• - A framework for creating and tracking achievements.
• - A general purpose business framework.

Algorithms and Design Patterns

Python implementation of algorithms and design patterns.

• - A module of algorithms for Python.
• - A collection of design patterns in Python.
• - Fast, pure-Python implementation of SortedList, SortedDict, and SortedSet types.

Editor Plugins

Plugins for editors and IDEs.

• Emacs
  • - Emacs Python Development Environment.
• Sublime Text
  • - A Sublime Text plugin to the awesome auto-complete library Jedi.
  • - Anaconda turns your Sublime Text 3 in a full featured Python development IDE.
• Vim
  • - Includes -based completion engine for Python.
  • - Vim bindings for the Jedi auto-completion library for Python.
  • - An all in one plugin for turning Vim into a Python IDE.
• Visual Studio
  • - Python Tools for Visual Studio.

IDEs

Popular Python IDEs.

• - Commercial Python IDE by JetBrains. Has free community edition available.
• - Free polyglot IDE based on Eclipse. Uses PyDev for Python support.
• - Open Source Python IDE.

Services

Online tools and APIs to simplify development.

Continuous Integration

See: .

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

Code Quality

• - An early warning system for your Python codebase.
• - A data-driven, automated, continuous code review tool.

Resources

Where to discover new Python libraries.

Websites

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Twitter

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