Awesome Python
A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome-php.
- Awesome Python
- Environment Management
 - Package Management
 - Distribution
 - Build Tools
 - Files
 - Date and Time
 - Text Processing
 - Natural Language Processing
 - Documentation
 - Configuration
 - Command-line Tools
 - Downloader
 - Imagery
 - Audio
 - Video
 - Geolocation
 - HTTP
 - Database
 - Database Drivers
 - ORM
 - Web Frameworks
 - Permissions
 - CMS
 - RESTful API
 - Authentication and OAuth
 - Template Engine
 - Queue
 - Search
 - News Feed
 - Asset Management
 - Caching
 - Internationalization
 - URL Manipulation
 - HTML Manipulation
 - Web Crawling
 - Web Content Extracting
 - Forms
 - Data Validation
 - Anti-spam
 - Tagging
 - Admin Panels
 - Static Site Generator
 - Processes and Threads
 - Networking
 - WebSocket
 - WSGI Servers
 - RPC Servers
 - Cryptography
 - GUI
 - Game Development
 - Logging
 - Testing
 - Code Analysis and Linter
 - Debugging Tools
 - Science and Data Analysis
 - Data Visualization
 - Machine Learning
 - Functional Programming
 - MapReduce
 - Third-party APIs
 - DevOps Tools
 - Workflow Execution
 - Job Scheduler
 - Foreign Function Interface
 - High Performance
 - Algorithms and Design Patterns
 - Hardware
 - Miscellaneous
 - Editor Plugins
 
 - Resources
 - Other Awesome Lists
 - Contributing
 
Environment Management
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
 - pew - A set of tools to manage multiple virtual environments.
 - Vex - Run a command in the named virtualenv.
 - PyRun - A one-file, no-installation-needed version of Python.
 
Package Management
Libraries for package and dependency management.
- pip / Python Package Index - The package and dependency manager.
 - conda - Cross-platform, Python-agnostic binary package manager.
 - Curdling - Curdling is a command line tool for managing Python packages.
 - wheel - The new standard of Python distribution and are intended to replace eggs.
 
Distribution
Libraries to create packaged executables for release distribution.
- cx-Freeze - Freezes Python scripts (cross-platform)
 - py2exe - Freezes Python scripts (Windows)
 - py2app - Freezes Python scripts (Mac OS X)
 - PyInstaller - A program that converts Python programs into stand-alone executables (Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Solaris and AIX)
 - dh-virtualenv - Build and distribute a virtualenv as a Debian package.
 
Build Tools
Compile software from source code.
- buildout - A build system for creating, assembling and deploying applications from multiple parts, some of which may be non-Python-based.
 - SCons - A software construction tool.
 - PlatformIO - A console tool to build code with different development platforms.
 - BitBake - A make-like build tool with the special focus of distributions and packages for embedded Linux.
 
Files
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.
 - Unipath - An object-oriented approach to file/directory operations.
 - pathlib - An cross-platform, object-oriented path library (included in Python 3.4)
 
Date and Time
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.
 - pytz - World timezone definitions, modern and historical. Brings the Olson tz database into Python.
 
Text Processing
Libraries for parsing and manipulating texts.
- General
- 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.
 - shortuuid - A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs.
 - awesome-slugify - A Python slugify library that can preserve unicode.
 - python-slugify - A Python slugify library that translates unicode to ASCII.
 - unicode-slugify - A slugifier that generates unicode slugs with Django as a dependency.
 - 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 for CJK and alphanumerics.
 - pyfiglet - An implementation of figlet written in Python.
 
 - Specific Formats
- tablib - A module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML.
 - python-docx - Reads, queries and modifies Microsoft Word 2007/2008 docx files.
 - xlwt / xlrd - Packages is for writing and reading data and formatting information from Excel files.
 - XlsxWriter - A Python module for creating Excel .xlsx files.
 - mm - Python powered spreadsheets.
 - PDFMiner - A tool for extracting information from PDF documents.
 - PyPDF2 - A pure Python PDF library capable of splitting, merging and transforming PDF pages.
 - Python-Markdown - A Python implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown.
 - Mistune - Fastest and full featured pure Python parsers of Markdown.
 - PyYAML - YAML implementations for Python.
 
 - Parser
- phonenumbers - Library for parsing, formatting, storing and validating international phone numbers.
 - python-user-agents - Browser user agent parser.
 - sqlparse - A non-validating SQL parser.
 - Pygments - A generic syntax highlighter.
 - python-nameparser - A simple Python module for parsing human names into their individual components.
 - schema - A library for validating Python data structures.
 - pyparsing - A general purpose framework for generating parsers.
 
 
Natural Language Processing
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.
 - genius - A Chinese segment base on Conditional Random Field.
 
Documentation
Libraries for generating project documentation.
- Sphinx - Python Documentation generator.
 - reStructuredText - Markup Syntax and Parser Component of Docutils.
 - MkDocs - Markdown friendly documentation generator.
 - Pycco - The original quick-and-dirty, hundred-line-long, literate-programming-style documentation generator.
 
Configuration
Libraries for storing configuration options.
- ConfigParser - (Python standard library) INI file parser.
 - ConfigObj - INI file parser with validation.
 - config - Hierarchical config from the author of logging.
 - profig - Config from multiple formats with value conversion.
 
Command-line Tools
Libraries for building command-line application.
- Command-line Application Development
- cement - Cement provides a light-weight and fully featured foundation to build anything from single file scripts to complex and intricately designed applications.
 - click - A package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way.
 - clint - Python Command-line Application Tools.
 - cliff - A framework for creating command-line programs with multi-level commands.
 - Clime – Clime lets you convert any module into a multi-command CLI program without any configuration.
 - docopt - Pythonic command line arguments parser.
 - colorama - Cross-platform colored terminal text.
 
 - Productivity Tools
- httpie - A command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement.
 - percol - Adds flavor of interactive selection to the traditional pipe concept on UNIX.
 - RainbowStream - Smart and nice Twitter client on terminal.
 
 
Downloader
Libraries for downloading.
- s3cmd - A command line tool for managing Amazon S3 and CloudFront.
 - 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.
 - WikiTeam - Tools for downloading and preserving wikis.
 
Imagery
Libraries for manipulating images.
- pillow - Pillow is the friendly PIL fork. PIL is the Python Imaging Library.
 - wand - Python bindings for MagickWand, C API for ImageMagick.
 - 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.
 - pyBarcode - Create barcodes in Python without needing PIL.
 - pygram - Instagram-like image filters.
 - Quads - Computer art based on quadtrees.
 - nude.py - Nudity detection.
 - scikit-image - A Python library for (scientific) image processing.
 - hmap - Image histogram remapping.
 
Audio
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.
 - audiolazy - Expressive Digital Signal Processing (DSP) package for Python.
 - talkbox - A Python library for speech/signal processing.
 - TimeSide - Open web audio processing framework.
 
Video
Libraries for manipulating video and GIFs.
- moviepy - A module for script-based movie editing with many formats, including animated GIFs.
 - shorten.tv - Video summarization.
 - scikit-video - Video processing routines for SciPy.
 
Geolocation
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.
 
HTTP
Libraries for working with HTTP.
- requests - HTTP Requests for Humans™.
 - urllib3 - HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post support, sanity friendly, and more.
 - httplib2 - Comprehensive HTTP client library.
 - treq - Python requests like API built on top of Twisted's HTTP client.
 
Database
Databases implemented in Python.
- ZODB - A native object database for Python. A key-value and object graph database.
 
Database Drivers
Libraries for connecting and operating databases.
- Relational Databases
- mysql-python - The MySQL database connector for Python.
 - mysqlclient - mysql-python fork supporting Python 3.
 - PyMySQL - Pure Python MySQL driver compatible to mysql-python.
 - mysql-connector-python - A pure Python MySQL driver from Oracle.
 - oursql - A better MySQL connector for Python with support for native prepared statements and BLOBs.
 - psycopg2 - The most popular PostgreSQL adapter for Python.
 - txpostgres - Twisted based asynchronous driver for PostgreSQL.
 
 - NoSQL Databases
- cassandra-python-driver - Python driver for Cassandra by Datastax.
 - pycassa - Python Thrift driver for Cassandra.
 - PyMongo - The official Python client for MongoDB.
 - redis-py - The Redis Python Client.
 - py2neo - Python wrapper client for Neo4j's restful interface.
 - telephus - Twisted based client for Cassandra.
 - txRedis - Twisted based client for Redis.
 
 
ORM
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.
 - django-mongodb-engine - Django MongoDB Backend.
 - redisco - A Python Library for Simple Models and Containers Persisted in Redis.
 
 
Web Frameworks
Full stack web 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.
 - web.py - A web framework for Python that is as simple as it is powerful.
 - TurboGears - The Web Framework that scales with you. Starts as a microframework and scales up to a fullstack solution.
 - CherryPy - A Minimalist Python Web Framework, HTTP/1.1-compliant and WSGI thread-pooled.
 - Grok - A framework built on the existing Zope 3 libraries, offers a lot of building blocks for web development.
 - Bluebream - An open-source web application server, framework and library, created by the Zope community and formerly known as Zope 3.
 - guava - A lightweight and high performance web framework for Python written in C.
 
Permissions
Libraries that allow or deny users access to data or functionality.
- Django Guardian - Implementation of per object permissions for Django 1.2+
 - Carteblanche - Module to align code with thoughts of users and designers. Also magically handles navigation and permissions.
 
CMS
Content management systems
- Mezzanine - A powerful, consistent, and flexible content management platform.
 - Wagtail - A Django content management system.
 - django-oscar - An open-source e-commerce 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.
 - djedi-cms - A lightweight but yet powerful Django content management system with plugins, inline editing and performance in mind.
 
RESTful API
Libraries for developing RESTful APIs.
- cornice - A REST framework for Pyramid.
 - django-rest-framework - A powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.
 - django-tastypie - Creating delicious APIs for Django apps.
 - django-formapi - Create JSON APIs with HMAC authentication and Django form-validation.
 - 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.
 - flask-api-utils - Flask extension that takes care of API representation and authentication.
 - 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.
 - restless - Framework agnostic REST framework based on lessons learned from TastyPie.
 
Authentication and OAuth
Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.
- Authomatic - Simple but powerful framework agnostic authentication/authorization client package.
 - OAuthLib - A generic, spec-compliant, thorough implementation of the OAuth request-signing logic.
 - rauth - A Python library for OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0, and Ofly.
 - python-oauth2 - A fully tested, abstract interface to creating OAuth clients and servers.
 - 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.
 - django-allauth - Authentication app for Django that "just works."
 - Flask-OAuthlib - OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0 implementation of client and provider for Flask.
 - sanction - A dead simple OAuth2 client implementation.
 - jose - JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption (JOSE) draft implementation, useful for stateful tokens.
 
Template Engine
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.
 
Queue
Libraries for working with event and task queues.
- celery - An asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.
 - huey - Little multi-threaded task queue.
 - mrq - Mr. Queue - A distributed worker task queue in Python using Redis & gevent.
 - rq - Simple job queues for Python.
 - simpleq - A simple, infinitely scalable, Amazon SQS based queue.
 
Search
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.
 
News Feed
Libraries for building user's activities.
- Feedly - A library which allows you to build newsfeed and notification systems using Cassandra and/or Redis.
 - django-activity-stream - Generate generic activity streams from the actions on your site.
 
Asset Management
Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.
- django-compressor - Compresses linked and inline javascript or CSS into a single cached file.
 - jinja-assets-compressor - A Jinja extension (compatible with Flask and other frameworks) to compile and/or compress your assets.
 - webassets - Bundles, optimizes, and manages unique cache-busting URLs for static resources.
 - fanstatic - Packages, optimizes, and serves static file dependencies as Python packages.
 - fileconveyor - Monitors changes, processes, and transports assets to CDNs and file storage systems.
 - django-storages - A collection of custom storage backends for Django.
 - glue - Glue is a simple command line tool to generate CSS sprites.
 - libsass-python - A Python binding of libsass, the reference implementation of SASS/SCSS.
 - Flask-Assets - Helps you integrate webassets into your Flask app.
 
Caching
Libraries for caching data.
- Beaker - A library for caching and sessions for use with web applications and stand-alone Python scripts and applications.
 - dogpile.cache - dogpile.cache is next generation replacement for Beaker made by same authors.
 - HermesCache - Python caching library with tag-based invalidation and dogpile effect prevention.
 - django-cache-machine - Automatic caching and invalidation for Django models through the ORM.
 - django-cacheops - A slick ORM cache with automatic granular event-driven invalidation.
 - johnny-cache - A caching framework for django applications.
 - django-viewlet - Render template parts with extended cache control.
 - pylibmc - A Python wrapper around the libmemcached interface.
 
Libraries for sending and parsing email.
- inbox.py - Python SMTP Server for Humans.
 - imbox - Python IMAP for Humans.
 - inbox - The open source email toolkit.
 - lamson - Pythonic SMTP Application Server.
 - flanker - A email address and Mime parsing library.
 - marrow.mailer - High-performance extensible mail delivery framework.
 - django-celery-ses - Django email backend with AWS SES and Celery.
 - modoboa - A mail hosting and management platform including a modern and simplified Web User Interface.
 - envelopes - Mailing for human beings.
 - mailjet - Mailjet API implementation for batch mailing, statistics and more.
 
Internationalization
Libraries for woking with i18n.
- Babel - An internationalization library for Python.
 
URL Manipulation
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.
 - pyshorteners - A pure Python URL shortening lib.
 
HTML 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.
 - xhtml2pdf - HTML/CSS to PDF converter.
 - untangle - Converts XML documents to Python objects for easy access.
 
Web Crawling
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.
 - MechanicalSoup - A Python library for automating interaction with websites.
 
Web Content Extracting
Libraries for extracting web contents.
- newspaper - News extraction, article extraction and content curation in Python.
 - 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.
 - opengraph - A Python module to parse the Open Graph Protocol
 
Forms
Libraries for working with forms.
- WTForms - A flexible forms validation and rendering library.
 - WTForms-JSON - A WTForms extension for JSON data handling.
 - Deform - Python HTML form generation library influenced by the formish form generation library.
 - django-crispy-forms - A Django app which lets you create beautiful forms in a very elegant and DRY way.
 - django-remote-forms - A platform independent Django form serializer.
 
Data Validation
Libraries for validating data. Used for forms in many cases.
- voluptuous - A Python data validation library. It is primarily intended for validating data coming into Python as JSON, YAML, etc.
 - dictshield - A fast way to validate and trim the values in a dictionary.
 - colander - A system for validating and deserializing data obtained via XML, JSON, an HTML form post or any other equally simple data serialization.
 
Anti-spam
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.
 
Tagging
Libraries for tagging items.
- django-taggit - Simple tagging for Django.
 
Admin Panels
Libraries for administrative interfaces.
- Ajenti - The admin panel your servers deserve.
 - Grappelli – A jazzy skin for the Django Admin-Interface.
 - django-suit - Alternative Django Admin-Interface (free only for Non-commercial use).
 - 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.
 
Static Site Generator
Static site generator is a software that takes some text + templates as input and produces html files on the output.
- Pelican - Uses Markdown or ReST for content and Jinja 2 for themes. Supports DVCS, Disqus. AGPL.
 - Cactus – Static site generator for designers.
 - Hyde - Jinja2-based static web site generator.
 - Nikola - A static website and blog generator.
 - Tags - The simplest static site generator.
 - Tinkerer - Tinkerer is a blogging engine/.static website generator powered by Sphinx.
 
Processes and Threads
Libraries for woking with processes or threads
- multiprocessing - (Python standard library) - Process-based "threading" interface.
 - threading - (Python standard library) Higher-level threading interface.
 - envoy - Python Subprocesses for Humans™.
 - sh - A full-fledged subprocess replacement for Python.
 
Networking
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.
 - pulsar - Event-driven concurrent framework for Python.
 - diesel - Greenlet-based event I/O Framework for Python.
 - eventlet - Asynchronous framework with WSGI support.
 - pyzmq - A Python wrapper for the 0MQ message library.
 - txZMQ - Twisted based wrapper for the 0MQ message library.
 
WebSocket
Libraries for woking with WebSocket.
- AutobahnPython - WebSocket & WAMP for Python on Twisted and asyncio.
 - WebSocket-for-Python - WebSocket client and server library for Python 2 and 3 as well as PyPy.
 - Crossbar - Open-source Unified Application Router (Websocket & WAMP for Python on Autobahn).
 
WSGI Servers
WSGI-compatible web servers.
- wsgiref - (Python standard library) WSGI reference implementation, single-threaded.
 - Werkzeug - A WSGI utility library for Python that powers Flask and can easily be embedded into your own projects.
 - paste - Multi-threaded, stable, tried and tested.
 - rocket - Multi-threaded.
 - waitress - Multi-threaded, poweres Pyramid.
 - netius - Asynchronous, very fast.
 - gunicorn - Pre-forked, partly written in C.
 - fapws3 - Asynchronous (network side only), written in C.
 - meinheld - Asynchronous, partly written in C.
 - bjoern - Asynchronous, very fast and written in C.
 
RPC Servers
RPC-compatible servers.
- SimpleXMLRPCServer - (Python standard library) Simple XML-RPC server implementation, single-threaded.
 - SimpleJSONRPCServer - This library is an implementation of the JSON-RPC specification.
 - zeroRPC - zerorpc is a flexible RPC implementation based on ZeroMQ and MessagePack.
 
Cryptography
- PyCA's Cryptography - cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.
 
GUI
Libraries for working with graphical user interface applications.
- PyQt - Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework, with support for both Qt v4 and Qt v5 frameworks.
 - PySide - Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework, supporting the Qt v4 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.
 - enaml - Create beautiful user-interfaces with Declaratic Syntax like QML
 
Game Development
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.
 - PySFML - Python bindings for SFML
 
Logging
Libraries for generating and working with log files.
- logging - (Python standard library) Logging facility for Python.
 - logbook - Logging replacement for Python.
 - Sentry - A realtime logging and aggregation server.
 - Raven - The Python client for Sentry.
 
Testing
Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.
- Testing Frameworks
- unittest - (Python standard library) Unit testing framework.
 - nose - nose extends unittest.
 - pytest - A mature full-featured Python testing tool.
 - mamba - The definitive testing tool for Python. Born under the banner of Behavior Driven Development (BDD).
 - contexts - A modern and flexible Behaviour-Driven-Development framework for Python 3.3 and above, inspired by C#'s 
Machine.Specifications. 
 - Mock
 - Fake Data
- faker - A Python package that generates fake data.
 - mixer - Generating fake data and creating random fixtures for testing in Django ORM, SQLAlchemy, Peewee, MongoEngine, Pony ORM and etc.
 - model_mommy - Creating random fixtures for testing in Django.
 
 - Code Coverage
- coverage - Code coverage measurement.
 
 - Load Testing
- locust - Scalable user load testing tool written in Python.
 
 - 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.
 
 
Code Analysis and Linter
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.
 - pycallgraph - Creates call graph visualizations for Python applications.
 - pylama - The modular source code checker: pep8, pyflakes, pylint and co.
 
Debugging Tools
Libraries for debugging code.
- pdb - (Python standard library) The Python Debugger.
 - ipdb - IPython-enabled pdb.
 - winpdb - A Platform Independent Python Debugger with GUI.
 - pudb – A full-screen, console-based Python debugger.
 - pyringe - Debugger capable of attaching to and injecting code into Python processes.
 - memory_profiler - Monitor Memory usage of Python code.
 - django-debug-toolbar - Display various debug information about the current request/response.
 - django-devserver - A drop-in replacement for Django's runserver.
 
Science and Data Analysis
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.
 - Open Mining - Business Intelligence (BI) in Python (Pandas web interface)
 - 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.
 - statsmodels - Statistical modeling and econometrics in Python.
 - astropy - A community Python library for Astronomy.
 
Data Visualization
Libraries for visualizing data.
- matplotlib - A Python 2D plotting library.
 - bokeh - Interactive Web Plotting for Python.
 - plotly - Collaborative web plotting for Python and matplotlib.
 - vincent - A Python to Vega translator.
 - d3py - A plottling library for Python, based on D3.js.
 - ggplot - Same API as ggplot2 for R.
 - Kartograph.py - Rendering beautiful SVG maps in Python.
 - pygal - A Python SVG Charts Creator.
 
Machine Learning
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.
 
MapReduce
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.
 - streamparse - Run Python code against real-time streams of data. Integrates with Apache Storm.
 
Functional Programming
- fn.py - Functional programming in Python: implementation of missing features to enjoy FP.
 - funcy - A fancy and practical functional tools.
 - Toolz - A collection of functional utilities for iterators, functions, and dictionaries.
 - CyToolz - Cython implementation of Toolz: High performance functional utilities.
 
Third-party APIs
Libraries for accessing third party APIs. See: List of Python API Wrappers and Libraries
- apache-libcloud - One Python library for all clouds.
 - boto - Python interface to Amazon Web Services.
 - 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.
 - facepy - Facepy makes it really easy to interact with Facebook's Graph API
 - Wikipedia - A Pythonic wrapper for the Wikipedia API.
 - python-instagram - A Python Client for Instagram API.
 - gmail - A Pythonic interface for Gmail.
 - praw - A Python wrapper for the Reddit API.
 - linkedin - A Python interface for LinkedIn.
 
DevOps Tools
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.
 - Plan - Writing crontab file in Python like a charm.
 - cuisine - Chef-like functionality for Fabric.
 - doit - A task runner/build tool.
 - psutil - A cross-platform process and system utilities module.
 - pexpect - A Python module for controlling interactive programs in a pseudo-terminal like GNU expect.
 - provy - An easy-to-use provisioning system in Python.
 
Workflow Execution
Libraries that enable workflows to be executed (remotely or locally).
- TaskFlow - A Python library that helps to make task execution easy, consistent and reliable.
 - Joblib - A set of tools to provide lightweight pipelining in Python.
 - Luigi - A Python module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs.
 - Spiff - A powerful workflow engine implemented in pure Python.
 
Job Scheduler
Libraries for scheduling jobs.
- schedule - Python job scheduling for humans.
 
Foreign Function Interface
Libraries for providing foreign function interface.
- ctypes - (Python standard library) Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.
 - cffi - Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.
 - SWIG - Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator.
 
High Performance
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 implementation 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.
 
Algorithms and Design Patterns
Collections of algorithms and design patterns.
- python-patterns - A collection of design patterns in Python.
 - algorithms - module of algorithms for Python.
 
Hardware
Libraries for programming with hardware.
- wifi - A Python library and command line tool for working with WiFi on Linux.
 
Miscellaneous
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.
 - bpython – A fancy interface to the Python interpreter for Linux, BSD, OS X and Windows (with some work).
 - pluginbase - A simple but flexible plugin system for Python.
 - itsdangerous - Various helpers to pass trusted data to untrusted environments.
 - blinker - A fast Python in-process signal/event dispatching system.
 
Editor Plugins
Plugins for various editors.
- Vim
- Python-mode - An all in one plugin for turning Vim into a Python IDE.
 - Jedi-vim - Vim bindings for the Jedi autocompletion library for Python.
 
 - Emacs
- Elpy - Emacs Python Development Environment.
 
 - 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.
 
 
Resources
Where to discover new Python libraries.
Websites
- r/Python - News about Python.
 - 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.
 - List of Python API Wrappers - A list of web services along with links to their docs and Python wrappers/libraries.
 - Django Packages - A directory of reusable apps, sites, tools, and more for Django projects.
 - Full Stack Python - Plain English explanations for every layer of the Python web application stack as well as links to the best resources on those topics from around the web.
 
Weekly
- 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.
 
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