A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries and resources. Inspired by awesome-php.
- Awesome Python
- Environment Management
- Package Management
- Files
- Date and Time
- Text Processing
- Natural Language Processing
- Command-line Tools
- Documentation
- Imagery
- Audio
- Video
- Geolocation
- HTTP
- Database
- Database Drivers
- ORM
- Web Frameworks
- CMS
- RESTful API
- Authentication and OAuth
- Template Engine
- Queue
- Search
- Asset Management
- Caching
- Internationalization
- URL Manipulation
- HTML Manipulation
- Web Crawling
- Web Content Extracting
- Forms
- Anti-spam
- Tagging
- Processes and Threads
- Networking
- Admin Panels
- DevOps Tools
- GUI
- Game Development
- Logging
- Testing
- Code Analysis and Linter
- Debugging Tools
- Science and Data Aanalysis
- Machine Learning
- MapReduce
- Third-party APIs
- Algorithms and Design Patterns
- Miscellaneous
- Foreign Function Interface
- High Performance
- Resources
Libraries for Python version and environment management.
- pyenv - Simple Python version management.
- virtualenv - A tool to create isolated Python environments.
- virtualenvwrapper - A set of extensions to virtualenv
Libraries for package and dependency management.
- pip / Python Package Index - The package and dependency manager.
- wheel - The new standard of python distribution and are intended to replace eggs.
- buildout - Python-based build system for creating, assembling and deploying applications from multiple parts, some of which may be non-Python-based.
Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.
- mimetypes - (Python standard library) Map filenames to MIME types.
- imghdr - (Python standard library) Determine the type of an image.
- python-magic - A Python interface to the libmagic file type identification library.
- path.py - A module wrapper for os.path.
- watchdog - API and shell utilities to monitor file system events.
- django-storages - A collection of custom storage backends for Django.
- Unipath - An object-oriented approach to file/directory operations.
Libraries for working with dates and times.
- arrow - Better dates & times for Python.
- dateutil - Extensions to the standard Python datetime module.
- delorean - A library for clearing up the inconvenient truths that arise dealing with datetimes in Python.
- when.py - Providing user-friendly functions to help perform common date and time actions.
- moment - A Python library for dealing with dates/times. Inspired by Moment.js.
Libraries for parsing and manipulating texts.
- difflib - (Python standard library) Helpers for computing deltas.
- Levenshtein - Fast computation of Levenshtein distance and string similarity.
- fuzzywuzzy - Fuzzy String Matching.
- esmre - Regular expression accelerator.
- phonenumbers - Library for parsing, formatting, storing and validating international phone numbers.
- python-user-agents - Browser user agent parser.
- shortuuid - A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs.
- tablib - A module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML.
- sqlparse - A non-validating SQL parser.
- Pygments - A generic syntax highlighter.
- python-slugify - A Python slugify library that handles unicode.
- unicode-slugify - A slugifier that generates unicode slugs. Developed by Mozilla.
- unidecode - ASCII transliterations of Unicode text.
- chardet - Python 2/3 compatible character encoding detector.
- xpinyin - A library to translate chinese hanzi (漢字) to pinyin (拼音).
- pangu.py - Spacing texts.
- python-docx - Reads, queries and modifies Microsoft Word 2007/2008 docx files.
- xlwt / xlrd - A package is for writing and reading data and formatting information from Excel files.
- XlsxWriter - A Python module for creating Excel .xlsx files.
- PyYAML - YAML implementations for Python.
- Name Parser - A simple Python module for parsing human names into their individual components.
Libraries for working with human languages.
- NLTK - A leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data.
- Pattern - A web mining module for the Python programming language. It has tools for natural language processing, machine learning, among others.
- TextBlob - Providing a consistent API for diving into common natural language processing (NLP) tasks. Stands on the giant shoulders of NLTK and Pattern, and plays nicely with both.
- jieba - Chinese Words Segementation Utilities.
- snownlp - A library for processing Chinese text.
- loso - Another Chinese segmentation library.
Libraries for building command line utilities.
- click - A package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way.
- clint - Python Command-line Application Tools.
- docopt - Pythonic command line arguments parser.
- colorama - Cross-platform colored terminal text.
Libraries for generating project documentation.
- Sphinx - Python Documentation generator.
- reStructuredText - Markup Syntax and Parser Component of Docutils.
- Python-Markdown - A Python implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown.
- MkDocs - Markdown friendly documentation generator.
Libraries for manipulating images.
- pillow - Pillow is the friendly PIL fork. PIL is the Python Imaging Library.
- thumbor - A smart imaging service. It enables on-demand crop, resizing and flipping of images.
- imgSeek - A project for searching a collection of images using visual similarity.
- python-qrcode - A pure Python QR Code generator.
- pygram - Instagram-like image filters.
- Quads - Computer art based on quadtrees.
- nude.py - Nudity detection.
- wand - Python bindings for MagickWand, C API for ImageMagick.
Libraries for manipulating audio.
- django-elastic-transcoder - Django + AWS Elastic Transcoder.
- beets - A music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger.
- pyechonest - Python client for the Echo Nest API.
- dejavu - Audio fingerprinting and recognition.
- pydub - Manipulate audio with a simple and easy high level interface.
- audioread - Cross-library (GStreamer + Core Audio + MAD + FFmpeg) audio decoding.
- mutagen - A Python module to handle audio metadata.
- tinytag - A library for reading music meta data of MP3, OGG, FLAC and Wave files.
Libraries for manipulating video and GIFs.
- moviepy - A module for script-based movie editing with many formats, including animated GIFs.
- shorten.tv - Video summarization.
- youtube-dl - A small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.
- you-get - A YouTube/Youku/Niconico video downloader written in Python 3.
- coursera - Script for downloading Coursera.org videos and naming them.
Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.
- GeoDjango - A world-class geographic web framework.
- geopy - Python Geocoding Toolbox.
- pygeoip - Pure Python GeoIP API.
- GeoIP - Python API for MaxMind GeoIP Legacy Database.
- geojson - Python bindings and utlities for GeoJSON.
Libraries for working with HTTP.
- requests - HTTP Requests for Humans™.
- httpie - A command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement.
Databases implemented in Python.
- ZODB - A native object database for Python. A key-value and object graph database.
Libraties for connecting and operating databases
- Relational Databases
- mysql-python - The MySQL database connector for Python.
- psycopg2 - The most popular PostgreSQL adapter for the Python.
- NoSQL Databases
Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or datamapping techniques.
- Relational Databases
- Django Models - A part of Django.
- SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper.
- peewee - A small, expressive ORM.
- PonyORM - ORM that provides a generator-oriented interface to SQL.
- NoSQL Databases
- MongoEngine - A Python Object-Document-Mapper for working with MongoDB.
- redisco - A Python Library for Simple Models and Containers Persisted in Redis.
Web development frameworks.
- Django - The most popular web framework in Python.
- Flask - A microframework for Python.
- Bottle - A fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework.
- Pyramid - A small, fast, down-to-earth, open source Python web framework.
- web2py - A full stack web framework and platform focused in the ease of use.
- TurboGears - The Web Framework that scales with you. Starts as a microframework and scales up to a fullstack solution.
- Grok - A framework built on the existing Zope 3 libraries, offers a lot of building blocks for web development.
- CherryPy - A Minimalist Python Web Framework, HTTP/1.1-compliant and WSGI thread-pooled.
- web.py - A web framework for Python that is as simple as it is powerful.
- Zope Toolkit - A set of libraries intended for reuse by projects to develop web applications or web frameworks.
- Bluebream - An open-source web application server, framework and library, created by the Zope community and formerly known as Zope 3.
Content Management Systems
- Mezzanine - A powerful, consistent, and flexible content management platform.
- Wagtail - A Django content management system.
- django-oscar - An open-source ecommerce framework for Django.
- Quokka CMS - Flexible, extensible, small CMS powered by Flask and MongoDB.
- Opps CMS - A Django-based CMS for magazines, newspapers websites and portals with high-traffic.
- Plone - Content Management System built on top of the open source application server Zope and the accompanying Content Management Framework.
- django-cms - An Open source enterprise content management system based on the django framework.
Libraries for developing RESTful APIs.
- django-rest-framework - A powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.
- django-tastypie - Creating delicious APIs for Django apps.
- flask-api - An implementation of the same web browsable APIs that django-rest-framework provides.
- flask-restful - An extension for Flask that adds support for quickly building REST APIs.
- falcon - A high-performance Python framework for building cloud APIs and web app backends.
- eve - REST API framework powered by Flask, MongoDB and good intentions.
- sandman - Automated REST APIs for existing database-driven systems.
Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.
- python-social-auth - An easy-to-setup social authentication mechanism.
- django-oauth-toolkit - OAuth2 goodies for the Djangonauts.
- django-oauth2-provider - Providing OAuth2 access to Django app.
- python-oauth2 - A fully tested, abstract interface to creating OAuth clients and servers.
- rauth - A Python library for OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0, and Ofly.
Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.
- Jinja2 - A modern and designer friendly templating language.
- Genshi - Python templating toolkit for generation of web-aware output.
- Mako - Hyperfast and lightweight templating for the Python platform.
- Chameleon - Chameleon is an HTML/XML template engine for Python. Modeled after ZPT, optimized for speed.
- Spitfire - A very fast Python template compiler.
Libraries for working with event and task queues.
- celery - An asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.
- rq - Simple job queues for Python.
Libraries and software for indexing and performing search queries on data.
- django-haystack - Modular search for Django.
- elasticsearch-py - The official low-level Python client for Elasticsearch.
- solrpy - A Python client for solr.
- Whoosh - A fast, pure Python search engine library.
Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.
- django-compressor - Compresses linked and inline javascript or CSS into a single cached file.
Libraries for caching data.
- Beaker Caching & Sessions - Beaker is a library for caching and sessions for use with web applications and stand-alone Python scripts and applications.
- HermesCache - Python caching library with tag-based invalidation and dogpile effect prevention.
Libraries for sending and parsing email.
- inbox.py - Python SMTP Server for Humans.
- imbox - Python IMAP for Humans.
- django-celery-ses - Django email backend with AWS SES and Celery.
Libraries for woking with i18n.
- Babel - An internationalization library for Python.
Libraries for parsing URLs.
- furl - A small Python library that makes manipulating URLs simple.
- purl - A simple, immutable URL class with a clean API for interrogation and manipulation.
Libraries for working with HTML and XML.
- BeautifulSoup - Providing Pythonic idioms for iterating, searching, and modifying HTML or XML.
- lxml - A very fast, easy-to-use and versatile library for handling HTML and XML.
- html5lib - A standards-compliant library for parsing and serializing HTML documents and fragments.
- pyquery - A jQuery-like library for parsing HTML.
- cssutils - A CSS library for Python.
- MarkupSafe - Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python.
- bleach - A whitelist-based HTML sanitization and text linkification library.
- xmltodict - Working with XML feel like you are working with JSON.
Libraries for scraping websites.
- Scrapy - A fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework.
- portia - Visual scraping for Scrapy.
- feedparser - Universal feed parser.
- RoboBrowser - A simple, Pythonic library for browsing the web without a standalone web browser.
Libraries for extracting web contents.
- newspaper - News extraction, article extraction and content curation in Pythom.
- html2text - Convert HTML to Markdown-formatted text.
- python-goose - HTML Content/Article Extractor.
- lassie - Web Content Retrieval for Humans.
- micawber - A small library for extracting rich content from URLs.
- sumy - A module for automatic summarization of text documents and HTML pages.
- Haul - An Extensible Image Crawler.
- python-readability - Fast Python port of arc90's readability tool.
Libraries for working with forms.
- django-crispy-forms - A Django app which lets you create beautiful forms in a very elegant and DRY way.
- WTForms - A flexible forms validation and rendering library.
Libraries for fighting spam.
- Stopspam - Intelligent spam detection for Python.
- django-simple-spam-blocker - Simple spam blocker for Django.
- django-simple-captcha - A simple and highly customizable Django app to add captcha images to any Django form.
Libraries for tagging items.
- django-taggit - Simple tagging for Django.
Libraries for woking with processes or threads
- envoy - Python Subprocesses for Humans™.
- sh - A full-fledged subprocess replacement for Python.
Libraries for network programming.
- gevent - A coroutine-based Python networking library that uses greenlet.
- Twisted - An event-driven networking engine.
- Tornado - A Web framework and asynchronous networking library.
- pyzmq - A python wrapper for the 0MQ message library.
Libraries for administrative interfaces.
- Ajenti - The admin panel your servers deserve.
- django-xadmin - Drop-in replacement of Django admin comes with lots of goodies.
- flask-admin - Simple and extensible administrative interface framework for Flask.
- flower - Real-time monitor and web admin for Celery.
Software and libraries for DevOps
- OpenStack - Open source software for building private and public clouds.
- Ansible - An IT automation tool.
- SaltStack - Infrastructure automation and management system.
- Fabric - Tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks.
- Fabtools - Tools for writing awesome Fabric files.
- cuisine - Chef-like functionality for Fabric.
- gunicorn - A WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX, fast clients and sleepy applications.
- Supervisor - A Process Control System.
- psutil - A cross-platform process and system utilities module.
Libraries for working with graphical user interface applications.
- PySide - Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework.
- wxPython - A blending of the wxWidgets C++ class library with the Python.
- kivy - A library for creating NUI applications, running on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android and iOS.
- curses - Built-in wrapper for ncurses used to create terminal GUI applications.
- urwid - A library for creating terminal GUI applications with strong support for widgets, events, rich colors, etc.
- pyglet - A cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python.
- Tkinter - Tkinter is Python's de-facto standard GUI package.
Awesome game development libraries.
- Pygame - Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing games.
- Cocos2d - cocos2d is a framework for building 2D games, demos, and other graphical/interactive applications. It is based on pyglet.
- PySDL2 - A ctypes based wrapper for the SDL2 library.
- Panda3D - 3D game engine developed by Disney and maintained by Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center. Written in C++, completely wrapped in Python.
- PyOgre - Python bindings for the Ogre 3D render engine, can be used for games, simulations, anything 3D.
- PyOpenGL - Python ctypes bindings for OpenGL and it's related APIs.
Libraries for generating and working with log files.
- logging - (Python standard library) Logging facility for Python.
- Sentry - A realtime logging and aggregation server.
- Raven - The Python client for Sentry.
Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.
- Testing Frameworks
- Mock
- Fake Data
- faker - A Python package that generates fake data.
- model_mommy - Creating random fixtures for testing in Django.
- Code Coverage
- coverage - Code coverage measurement.
- Error Handler
- FuckIt.py - FuckIt.py uses state-of-the-art technology to make sure your Python code runs whether it has any right to or not.
Libraries and tools for analysing, parsing and manipulation codebases.
- pysonar2 - A type inferencer and indexer for Python.
- Flake8 - The modular source code checker: pep8, pyflakes and co.
- Pylint - A source code analyzer.
Libraries for dubugging and developing
- pdb - (Python standard library) The Python Debugger.
- ipdb - IPython-enabled pdb.
- winpdb - A Platform Independent Python Debugger with GUI.
- pyringe - Debugger capable of attaching to and injecting code into Python processes.
- django-debug-toolbar - Display various debug information about the current request/response.
- django-devserver - A drop-in replacement for Django's runserver.
Libraries for scientific computing and data analyzing.
- SciPy - A Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.
- NumPy - A fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.
- Numba - Python JIT (just in time) complier to LLVM aimed at scientific Python by the developers of Cython and NumPy.
- NetworkX - A high-productivity software for complex networks.
- Pandas - A library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools.
- PyMC - Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.
- zipline - A Pythonic algorithmic trading library.
- PyDy - Short for Python Dynamics, used to assist with workflow in the modeling of dynamic motion based around NumPy, SciPy, IPython, and matplotlib.
- SymPy - A Python library for symbolic mathematics.
Libraries for visualizing data
- matplotlib - A Python 2D plotting library.
- bokeh - Interactive Web Plotting for Python.
- ggplot - Same API as ggplot2 for R.
Libraries for Machine Learning
- scikit-learn - A Python module for machine learning built on top of SciPy.
- pattern - Web mining module for Python.
- NuPIC - Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing.
- Pylearn2 - A Machine Learning library based on Theano.
- hebel - GPU-Accelerated Deep Learning Library in Python.
- gensim - Topic Modelling for Humans.
- PyBrain - Another Python Machine Learning Library.
- Crab - A flexible, fast recommender engine.
- python-recsys - A Python library for implementing a Recommender System.
Framworks and libraries for MapReduce.
- PySpark - The Spark Python API.
- dpark - Python clone of Spark, a MapReduce alike framework in Python.
- luigi - A module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs.
- mrjob - Run MapReduce jobs on Hadoop or Amazon Web Services.
- dumbo - Python module that allows one to easily write and run Hadoop programs.
Libraries for accessing third party APIs.
- apache-libcloud - One Python library for all clouds.
- boto - Python interface to Amazon Web Services.
- s3cmd - A command line tool for managing Amazon S3 and CloudFront.
- twython - A Python wrapper for the Twitter API.
- soundcloud-python - A Python wrapper around the Soundcloud API.
- google-api-python-client - Google APIs Client Library for Python.
- facebook-sdk - Facebook Platform Python SDK.
- Wikipedia - A Pythonic wrapper for the Wikipedia API.
- python-instagram - A Python Client for Instagram API.
Collections of algorithms and design patterns.
- python-patterns - A collection of design patterns in Python.
- algorithms - module of algorithms for Python.
Useful libraries or tools that don't fit in the categories above.
- IPython - IPython provides a rich toolkit to help you make the most out of using Python interactively.
Libraries for providing foreign function interface.
- cffi - Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.
Libraries for making Python faster.
- Cython - Optimizing Static Complier for Python. Uses type mixins to compile Python into C or C++ modules resulting in large performance gains.
- PyPy - An implmentation of Python in Python. The interpreter uses black magic to make Python very fast without having to add in additional type information.
- Stackless Python - An enhanced version of the Python.
- Pyston - A Python implementation built using LLVM and modern JIT techniques with the goal of achieving good performance.
- Vim
- TODO
- Emacs
- TODO
- Sublime Text
- SublimeJEDI - A Sublime Text plugin to the awesome autocomplete library Jedi.
- Anaconda - Anaconda turns your Sublime Text 3 in a full featured Python development IDE.
- Djaneiro - Django support for Sublime Text.
- r/Python - News about Python.
- pyvideo.org - Python related video indexed so you can find it.
- The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python! - The answer to life, the universe, and everything.
- Python 3 Wall of Superpowers - Too many popular Python packages don't support Python 3.
- Trending Python repositories on GitHub today - Good place to find new Python libraries.
- Django Packages - A directory of reusable apps, sites, tools, and more for Django projects.
- Pycoder's Weekly - A free weekly newsletter, on Fridays, for those interested in Python development and various topics around Python.
- Python Weekly - A free weekly newsletter featuring curated news, articles, new releases, jobs etc related to Python.
- @gvanrossum - Python BDFL.
- @pypi
- @getpy
- @planetpython
- @pycoders
- @PythonWeekly
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