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Table of contents
Admin Panels
Algorithms and Design Patterns
A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources. ASGI Servers
Asynchronous Programming
Inspired by awesome-php.
Audio
Authentication
Build Tools

Admin Panels Built-in Classes Enhancement

CMS
Libraries for administrative interfaces. Caching
ChatOps Tools
ajenti - The admin panel your servers deserve.
Code Analysis
django-grappelli - A jazzy skin for the Django Admin-Interface.
Command-line Interface
django-jet - Modern responsive template for the Django admin interface with improved Development

functionality. Command-line Tools

Compatibility
django-suit - Alternative Django Admin-Interface (free only for Non-commercial use).
Computer Vision
django-xadmin - Drop-in replacement of Django admin comes with lots of goodies.
Concurrency and Parallelism
jet-bridge - Admin panel framework for any application with nice UI (ex Jet Django) Con guration
ask-admin - Simple and extensible administrative interface framework for Flask. Cryptography

ower - Real-time monitor and web admin for Celery.

wooey - A Django app which creates automatic web UIs for Python scripts.

Algorithms and Design Patterns

Python implementation of algorithms and design patterns.

algorithms - Minimal examples of data structures and algorithms in Python.

PyPattyrn - A simple yet effective library for implementing common design patterns.

python-ds - Clean and simple collection of data structure and algorithms in Python for coding
interviews.

python-patterns - A collection of design patterns in Python.

sortedcontainers - Fast, pure-Python implementation of SortedList, SortedDict, and

SortedSet types.

transitions - A lightweight, object-oriented nite state machine implementation in Python.

ASGI Servers
ASGI-compatible web servers.

uvicorn - Uvicorn is a lightning-fast ASGI server implementation, using uvloop and httptools.

Asynchronous Programming
asyncio - (Python standard library) Asynchronous I/O, event loop, coroutines and tasks.

awesome-asyncio

uvloop - Ultra fast asyncio event loop.

Twisted - An event-driven networking engine.

Audio
Libraries for manipulating audio and its metadata.

Audio

audioread - Cross-library (GStreamer + Core Audio + MAD + FFmpeg) audio decoding.

dejavu - Audio ngerprinting and recognition.

matchering - A library for automated reference audio mastering.

mingus - An advanced music theory and notation package with MIDI le and playback
support.

pyAudioAnalysis - Audio feature extraction, classi cation, segmentation and

applications.

pydub - Manipulate audio with a simple and easy high level interface.

TimeSide - Open web audio processing framework.

Metadata

beets - A music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger.

eyeD3 - A tool for working with audio les, speci cally MP3 les containing ID3
metadata.

mutagen - A Python module to handle audio metadata.

tinytag - A library for reading music meta data of MP3, OGG, FLAC and Wave les.

Authentication
Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.

OAuth

authlib - JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption draft implementation.

django-allauth - Authentication app for Django that "just works."

django-oauth-toolkit - OAuth 2 goodies for Django.

oauthlib - A generic and thorough implementation of the OAuth request-signing logic.

python-oauth2 - A fully tested, abstract interface to creating OAuth clients and servers.

python-social-auth - An easy-to-setup social authentication mechanism.

JWT

pyjwt - JSON Web Token implementation in Python.

python-jose - A JOSE implementation in Python.

python-jwt - A module for generating and verifying JSON Web Tokens.

Build Tools
Compile software from source code.

BitBake - A make-like build tool for embedded Linux.

buildout - A build system for creating, assembling and deploying applications from multiple
parts.

PlatformIO - A console tool to build code with different development platforms.

pybuilder - A continuous build tool written in pure Python.

SCons - A software construction tool.

Built-in Classes Enhancement

Libraries for enhancing Python built-in classes.

dataclasses - (Python standard library) Data classes.

attrs - Replacement for __init__ , __eq__ , __repr__ , etc. boilerplate in class de nitions.

bidict - E cient, Pythonic bidirectional map data structures and related functionality..

Box - Python dictionaries with advanced dot notation access.

DottedDict - A library that provides a method of accessing lists and dicts with a dotted path
notation.

CMS
Content Management Systems.

wagtail - A Django content management system.

django-cms - An Open source enterprise CMS based on the Django.

feincms - One of the most advanced Content Management Systems built on Django.

indico - A feature-rich event management system, made @ CERN.

Kotti - A high-level, Pythonic web application framework built on Pyramid.

mezzanine - A powerful, consistent, and exible content management platform.

plone - A CMS built on top of the open source application server Zope.

quokka - Flexible, extensible, small CMS powered by Flask and MongoDB.

Caching
Libraries for caching data.

beaker - A WSGI middleware for sessions and caching.

django-cache-machine - Automatic caching and invalidation for Django models.

django-cacheops - A slick ORM cache with automatic granular event-driven invalidation.

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.

pylibmc - A Python wrapper around the libmemcached interface.

python-diskcache - SQLite and le backed cache backend with faster lookups than
memcached and redis.

ChatOps Tools
Libraries for chatbot development.

errbot - The easiest and most popular chatbot to implement ChatOps.

Code Analysis
Tools of static analysis, linters and code quality checkers. Also see awesome-static-analysis.

Code Analysis

coala - Language independent and easily extendable code analysis application.

code2 ow - Turn your Python and JavaScript code into DOT owcharts.

prospector - A tool to analyse Python code.

pycallgraph - A library that visualises the ow (call graph) of your Python application.

vulture - A tool for nding and analysing dead Python code.

Code Linters

ake8 - A wrapper around pycodestyle , pyflakes and McCabe.

awesome- ake8-extensions

pylint - A fully customizable source code analyzer.

pylama - A code audit tool for Python and JavaScript.

wemake-python-styleguide - The strictest and most opinionated python linter ever.

Code Formatters

black - The uncompromising Python code formatter.

yapf - Yet another Python code formatter from Google.

Static Type Checkers, also see awesome-python-typing

mypy - Check variable types during compile time.

typeshed - Collection of library stubs for Python, with static types.

pyre-check - Performant type checking.

Static Type Annotations Generators

MonkeyType - A system for Python that generates static type annotations by collecting
runtime types

Command-line Interface Development

Libraries for building command-line applications.

Command-line Application Development

cement - CLI Application Framework for Python.

click - A package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way.

cliff - A framework for creating command-line programs with multi-level commands.

docopt - Pythonic command line arguments parser.

python- re - A library for creating command line interfaces from absolutely any Python
object.

python-prompt-toolkit - A library for building powerful interactive command lines.

Terminal Rendering

asciimatics - A package to create full-screen text UIs (from interactive forms to ASCII
animations).

bashplotlib - Making basic plots in the terminal.

colorama - Cross-platform colored terminal text.

rich - Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. Also provides a
great RichHandler log handler.

tqdm - Fast, extensible progress bar for loops and CLI.

Command-line Tools
Useful CLI-based tools for productivity.

Productivity Tools

cookiecutter - A command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project

templates).

doitlive - A tool for live presentations in the terminal.

howdoi - Instant coding answers via the command line.

Invoke - A tool for managing shell-oriented subprocesses and organizing executable

Python code into CLI-invokable tasks.

PathPicker - Select les out of bash output.

percol - Adds avor of interactive selection to the traditional pipe concept on UNIX.

thefuck - Correcting your previous console command.

tmuxp - A tmux session manager.

try - A dead simple CLI to try out python packages - it's never been easier.

CLI Enhancements

httpie - A command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement.

kube-shell - An integrated shell for working with the Kubernetes CLI.

mycli - MySQL CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.

pgcli - PostgreSQL CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.

iredis - Redis CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.

litecli - SQLite CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.

saws - A Supercharged aws-cli.

Compatibility
Libraries for migrating from Python 2 to 3.

python-future - The missing compatibility layer between Python 2 and Python 3.

python-modernize - Modernizes Python code for eventual Python 3 migration.

six - Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities.

Computer Vision
Libraries for Computer Vision.

Kornia - Open Source Differentiable Computer Vision Library for PyTorch.

OpenCV - Open Source Computer Vision Library.

pytesseract - Another wrapper for Google Tesseract OCR.

tesserocr - A simple, Pillow-friendly, wrapper around the tesseract-ocr API for OCR.

SimpleCV - An open source framework for building computer vision applications.

Concurrency and Parallelism

Libraries for concurrent and parallel execution. Also see awesome-asyncio.

concurrent.futures - (Python standard library) A high-level interface for asynchronously

executing callables.

multiprocessing - (Python standard library) Process-based parallelism.

eventlet - Asynchronous framework with WSGI support.

gevent - A coroutine-based Python networking library that uses greenlet.

uvloop - Ultra fast implementation of asyncio event loop on top of libuv .

scoop - Scalable Concurrent Operations in Python.

Con guration
Libraries for storing and parsing con guration options.

con gobj - INI le parser with validation.

con gparser - (Python standard library) INI le parser.

pro g - Con g from multiple formats with value conversion.

python-decouple - Strict separation of settings from code.

Cryptography
cryptography - A package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python
developers.

paramiko - The leading native Python SSHv2 protocol library.

passlib - Secure password storage/hashing library, very high level.

pynacl - Python binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library.

Data Analysis
Libraries for data analyzing.

Blaze - NumPy and Pandas interface to Big Data.

Open Mining - Business Intelligence (BI) in Pandas interface.

Orange - Data mining, data visualization, analysis and machine learning through visual
programming or scripts.

Pandas - A library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis
tools.

Optimus - Agile Data Science Work ows made easy with PySpark.

AWS Data Wrangler - Pandas on AWS.

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

Cerberus - A lightweight and extensible data validation library.

colander - Validating and deserializing data obtained via XML, JSON, an HTML form post.

jsonschema - An implementation of JSON Schema for Python.

schema - A library for validating Python data structures.

Schematics - Data Structure Validation.

valideer - Lightweight extensible data validation and adaptation library.

voluptuous - A Python data validation library.

Data Visualization
Libraries for visualizing data. Also see awesome-javascript.

Altair - Declarative statistical visualization library for Python.

Bokeh - Interactive Web Plotting for Python.

bqplot - Interactive Plotting Library for the Jupyter Notebook

Dash - Built on top of Flask, React and Plotly aimed at analytical web applications.

awesome-dash

diagrams - Diagram as Code.

plotnine - A grammar of graphics for Python based on ggplot2.

Matplotlib - A Python 2D plotting library.

Pygal - A Python SVG Charts Creator.

PyGraphviz - Python interface to Graphviz.

PyQtGraph - Interactive and realtime 2D/3D/Image plotting and science/engineering widgets.

Seaborn - Statistical data visualization using Matplotlib.

VisPy - High-performance scienti c visualization based on OpenGL.

Database
Databases implemented in Python.

pickleDB - A simple and lightweight key-value store for Python.

tinydb - A tiny, document-oriented database.

ZODB - A native object database for Python. A key-value and object graph database.

Database Drivers
Libraries for connecting and operating databases.

MySQL - awesome-mysql

mysqlclient - MySQL connector with Python 3 support (mysql-python fork).

PyMySQL - A pure Python MySQL driver compatible to mysql-python.

PostgreSQL - awesome-postgres

psycopg2 - The most popular PostgreSQL adapter for Python.

queries - A wrapper of the psycopg2 library for interacting with PostgreSQL.

Other Relational Databases

pymssql - A simple database interface to Microsoft SQL Server.

SuperSQLite - A supercharged SQLite library built on top of apsw.

NoSQL Databases

cassandra-driver - The Python Driver for Apache Cassandra.

happybase - A developer-friendly library for Apache HBase.

kafka-python - The Python client for Apache Kafka.

py2neo - A client library and toolkit for working with Neo4j.

pymongo - The o cial Python client for MongoDB.

redis-py - The Python client for Redis.

Asynchronous Clients

motor - The async Python driver for MongoDB.

Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

Arrow - A Python library that offers a sensible and human-friendly approach to creating,
manipulating, formatting and converting dates, times and timestamps.

Chronyk - A Python 3 library for parsing human-written times and dates.

dateutil - Extensions to the standard Python datetime module.

delorean - A library for clearing up the inconvenient truths that arise dealing with datetimes.

moment - A Python library for dealing with dates/times. Inspired by Moment.js.

Pendulum - Python datetimes made easy.

PyTime - An easy-to-use Python module which aims to operate date/time/datetime by string.

pytz - World timezone de nitions, modern and historical. Brings the tz database into Python.

when.py - Providing user-friendly functions to help perform common date and time actions.

maya - Datetimes for Humans.

Debugging Tools
Libraries for debugging code.

pdb-like Debugger

ipdb - IPython-enabled pdb.

pdb++ - Another drop-in replacement for pdb.

pudb - A full-screen, console-based Python debugger.

wdb - An improbable web debugger through WebSockets.

Tracing

lptrace - strace for Python programs.

manhole - Debugging UNIX socket connections and present the stacktraces for all
threads and an interactive prompt.

pyringe - Debugger capable of attaching to and injecting code into Python processes.

python-hunter - A exible code tracing toolkit.

Pro ler

line_pro ler - Line-by-line pro ling.

memory_pro ler - Monitor Memory usage of Python code.

pro ling - An interactive Python pro ler.

py-spy - A sampling pro ler for Python programs. Written in Rust.

py ame - A ptracing pro ler For Python.

vprof - Visual Python pro ler.

Others

icecream - Inspect variables, expressions, and program execution with a single, simple
function call.

django-debug-toolbar - Display various debug information for Django.

django-devserver - A drop-in replacement for Django's runserver.

ask-debugtoolbar - A port of the django-debug-toolbar to ask.

pyelftools - Parsing and analyzing ELF les and DWARF debugging information.

Deep Learning
Frameworks for Neural Networks and Deep Learning. Also see awesome-deep-learning.

caffe - A fast open framework for deep learning..

keras - A high-level neural networks library and capable of running on top of either
TensorFlow or Theano.

mxnet - A deep learning framework designed for both e ciency and exibility.

pytorch - Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration.

SerpentAI - Game agent framework. Use any video game as a deep learning sandbox.

tensor ow - The most popular Deep Learning framework created by Google.

Theano - A library for fast numerical computation.

DevOps Tools
Software and libraries for DevOps.

ansible - A radically simple IT automation platform.

cloudinit - A multi-distribution package that handles early initialization of a cloud instance.

cuisine - Chef-like functionality for Fabric.

docker-compose - Fast, isolated development environments using Docker.

fabric - A simple, Pythonic tool for remote execution and deployment.

fabtools - Tools for writing awesome Fabric les.

honcho - A Python clone of Foreman, for managing Proc le-based applications.

OpenStack - Open source software for building private and public clouds.

pexpect - Controlling interactive programs in a pseudo-terminal like GNU expect.

psutil - A cross-platform process and system utilities module.

saltstack - Infrastructure automation and management system.

supervisor - Supervisor process control system for UNIX.

Distributed Computing
Frameworks and libraries for Distributed Computing.

Batch Processing

PySpark - Apache Spark Python API.

dask - A exible parallel computing library for analytic computing.

luigi - A module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs.

mrjob - Run MapReduce jobs on Hadoop or Amazon Web Services.

Ray - A system for parallel and distributed Python that uni es the machine learning
ecosystem.

Stream Processing

faust - A stream processing library, porting the ideas from Kafka Streams to Python.

streamparse - Run Python code against real-time streams of data via Apache Storm.

Distribution
Libraries to create packaged executables for release distribution.

dh-virtualenv - Build and distribute a virtualenv as a Debian package.

Nuitka - Compile scripts, modules, packages to an executable or extension module.

py2app - Freezes Python scripts (Mac OS X).

py2exe - Freezes Python scripts (Windows).

PyInstaller - Converts Python programs into stand-alone executables (cross-platform).

pynsist - A tool to build Windows installers, installers bundle Python itself.

pyarmor - A tool used to obfuscate python scripts, bind obfuscated scripts to xed machine
or expire obfuscated scripts.

shiv - A command line utility for building fully self-contained zipapps (PEP 441), but with all
their dependencies included.

Documentation
Libraries for generating project documentation.

sphinx - Python Documentation generator.

awesome-sphinxdoc

pdoc - Epydoc replacement to auto generate API documentation for Python libraries.

pycco - The literate-programming-style documentation generator.

Downloader
Libraries for downloading.

s3cmd - A command line tool for managing Amazon S3 and CloudFront.

s4cmd - Super S3 command line tool, good for higher performance.

you-get - A YouTube/Youku/Niconico video downloader written in Python 3.

youtube-dl - A small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.

akshare - A nancial data interface library, built for human beings!

E-commerce
Frameworks and libraries for e-commerce and payments.

alipay - Uno cial Alipay API for Python.

Cartridge - A shopping cart app built using the Mezzanine.

django-oscar - An open-source e-commerce framework for Django.

django-shop - A Django based shop system.

merchant - A Django app to accept payments from various payment processors.

money - Money class with optional CLDR-backed locale-aware formatting and an extensible
currency exchange.

python-currencies - Display money format and its lthy currencies.

forex-python - Foreign exchange rates, Bitcoin price index and currency conversion.

saleor - An e-commerce storefront for Django.

shoop - An open source E-Commerce platform based on Django.

Editor Plugins and IDEs

Emacs

elpy - Emacs Python Development Environment.

Sublime Text

anaconda - Anaconda turns your Sublime Text 3 in a full featured Python development
IDE.

SublimeJEDI - A Sublime Text plugin to the awesome auto-complete library Jedi.

Vim

jedi-vim - Vim bindings for the Jedi auto-completion library for Python.

python-mode - An all in one plugin for turning Vim into a Python IDE.

YouCompleteMe - Includes Jedi-based completion engine for Python.

Visual Studio

PTVS - Python Tools for Visual Studio.

Visual Studio Code

Python - The o cial VSCode extension with rich support for Python.

IDE

PyCharm - Commercial Python IDE by JetBrains. Has free community edition available.

spyder - Open Source Python IDE.

Email
Libraries for sending and parsing email.

Mail Servers

modoboa - A mail hosting and management platform including a modern Web UI.

salmon - A Python Mail Server.

Clients

imbox - Python IMAP for Humans.

yagmail - Yet another Gmail/SMTP client.

Others

anker - An email address and Mime parsing library.

mailer - High-performance extensible mail delivery framework.

Environment Management
Libraries for Python version and virtual environment management.

pyenv - Simple Python version management.

virtualenv - A tool to create isolated Python environments.

Files
Libraries for le manipulation and MIME type detection.

mimetypes - (Python standard library) Map lenames to MIME types.

path.py - A module wrapper for os.path.

pathlib - (Python standard library) An cross-platform, object-oriented path library.

PyFilesystem2 - Python's lesystem abstraction layer.

python-magic - A Python interface to the libmagic le type identi cation library.

Unipath - An object-oriented approach to le/directory operations.

watchdog - API and shell utilities to monitor le system events.

Foreign Function Interface

Libraries for providing foreign function interface.

c - Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.

ctypes - (Python standard library) Foreign Function Interface for Python calling C code.

PyCUDA - A Python wrapper for Nvidia's CUDA API.

SWIG - Simpli ed Wrapper and Interface Generator.

Forms
Libraries for working with forms.

Deform - Python HTML form generation library in uenced by the formish form generation
library.

django-bootstrap3 - Bootstrap 3 integration with Django.

django-bootstrap4 - Bootstrap 4 integration with Django.

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.

WTForms - A exible forms validation and rendering library.

Functional Programming
Functional Programming with Python.

Coconut - A variant of Python built for simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming.

fn.py - Functional programming in Python: implementation of missing features to enjoy FP.

funcy - A fancy and practical functional tools.

more-itertools - More routines for operating on iterables, beyond itertools .

returns - A set of type-safe monads, tranformers, and composition utilities.

Toolz - A collection of functional utilities for iterators, functions, and dictionaries.

CyToolz - Cython implementation of Toolz : High performance functional utilities.

GUI Development
Libraries for working with graphical user interface applications.

curses - Built-in wrapper for ncurses used to create terminal GUI applications.

Eel - A library for making simple Electron-like o ine HTML/JS GUI apps.

enaml - Creating beautiful user-interfaces with Declarative Syntax like QML.

Flexx - Flexx is a pure Python toolkit for creating GUI's, that uses web technology for its
rendering.

Gooey - Turn command line programs into a full GUI application with one line.

kivy - A library for creating NUI applications, running on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android
and iOS.

pyglet - A cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python.

PyGObject - Python Bindings for GLib/GObject/GIO/GTK+ (GTK+3).

PyQt - Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework.

PySimpleGUI - Wrapper for tkinter, Qt, WxPython and Remi.

pywebview - A lightweight cross-platform native wrapper around a webview component.

Tkinter - Tkinter is Python's de-facto standard GUI package.

Toga - A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit.

urwid - A library for creating terminal GUI applications with strong support for widgets,
events, rich colors, etc.

wxPython - A blending of the wxWidgets C++ class library with the Python.

GraphQL
Libraries for working with GraphQL.

tarti ette - SDL- rst GraphQL engine implementation for Python 3.6+ and asyncio.

tarti ette-aiohttp - An aiohttp -based wrapper for Tarti ette to expose GraphQL APIs over
HTTP.

tarti ette-asgi - ASGI support for the Tarti ette GraphQL engine.

Game Development
Awesome game development libraries.

Cocos2d - cocos2d is a framework for building 2D games, demos, and other

graphical/interactive applications.

Harfang3D - Python framework for 3D, VR and game development.

Panda3D - 3D game engine developed by Disney.

Pygame - Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing games.

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.

PySDL2 - A ctypes based wrapper for the SDL2 library.

RenPy - A Visual Novel engine.

Geolocation
Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

django-countries - A Django app that provides a country eld for models and forms.

GeoDjango - A world-class geographic web framework.

GeoIP - Python API for MaxMind GeoIP Legacy Database.

geojson - Python bindings and utilities for GeoJSON.

geopy - Python Geocoding Toolbox.

pygeoip - Pure Python GeoIP API.

HTML Manipulation
Libraries for working with HTML and XML.

BeautifulSoup - Providing Pythonic idioms for iterating, searching, and modifying HTML or
XML.

bleach - A whitelist-based HTML sanitization and text linki cation library.

cssutils - A CSS library for Python.

html5lib - A standards-compliant library for parsing and serializing HTML documents and
fragments.

lxml - A very fast, easy-to-use and versatile library for handling HTML and XML.

MarkupSafe - Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python.

pyquery - A jQuery-like library for parsing HTML.

untangle - Converts XML documents to Python objects for easy access.

WeasyPrint - A visual rendering engine for HTML and CSS that can export to PDF.

xmldataset - Simple XML Parsing.

xmltodict - Working with XML feel like you are working with JSON.

HTTP Clients
Libraries for working with HTTP.

grequests - requests + gevent for asynchronous HTTP requests.

httplib2 - Comprehensive HTTP client library.

httpx - A next generation HTTP client for Python.

requests - HTTP Requests for Humans.

treq - Python requests like API built on top of Twisted's HTTP client.

urllib3 - A HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, le post support, sanity friendly.

Hardware
Libraries for programming with hardware.

ino - Command line toolkit for working with Arduino.

keyboard - Hook and simulate global keyboard events on Windows and Linux.

mouse - Hook and simulate global mouse events on Windows and Linux.

Pingo - Pingo provides a uniform API to program devices like the Raspberry Pi, pcDuino, Intel
Galileo, etc.

PyUserInput - A module for cross-platform control of the mouse and keyboard.

scapy - A brilliant packet manipulation library.

wi - A Python library and command line tool for working with WiFi on Linux.

Image Processing
Libraries for manipulating images.

hmap - Image histogram remapping.

imgSeek - A project for searching a collection of images using visual similarity.

nude.py - Nudity detection.

pagan - Retro identicon (Avatar) generation based on input string and hash.

pillow - Pillow is the friendly PIL fork.

pyBarcode - Create barcodes in Python without needing PIL.

pygram - Instagram-like image lters.

python-qrcode - A pure Python QR Code generator.

Quads - Computer art based on quadtrees.

scikit-image - A Python library for (scienti c) image processing.

thumbor - A smart imaging service. It enables on-demand crop, re-sizing and ipping of
images.

wand - Python bindings for MagickWand, C API for ImageMagick.

Implementations
Implementations of Python.

CPython - Default, most widely used implementation of the Python programming language
written in C.

Cython - Optimizing Static Compiler for Python.

CLPython - Implementation of the Python programming language written in Common Lisp.

Grumpy - More compiler than interpreter as more powerful CPython2.7 replacement (alpha).

IronPython - Implementation of the Python programming language written in C#.

Jython - Implementation of Python programming language written in Java for the JVM.

MicroPython - A lean and e cient Python programming language implementation.

Numba - Python JIT compiler to LLVM aimed at scienti c Python.

PeachPy - x86-64 assembler embedded in Python.

Pyjion - A JIT for Python based upon CoreCLR.

PyPy - A very fast and compliant implementation of the Python language.

Pyston - A Python implementation using JIT techniques.

Stackless Python - An enhanced version of the Python programming language.

Interactive Interpreter
Interactive Python interpreters (REPL).

bpython - A fancy interface to the Python interpreter.

Jupyter Notebook (IPython) - A rich toolkit to help you make the most out of using Python
interactively.

awesome-jupyter

ptpython - Advanced Python REPL built on top of the python-prompt-toolkit.

Internationalization
Libraries for working with i18n.

Babel - An internationalization library for Python.

PyICU - A wrapper of International Components for Unicode C++ library (ICU).

Job Scheduler
Libraries for scheduling jobs.

APScheduler - A light but powerful in-process task scheduler that lets you schedule
functions.

django-schedule - A calendaring app for Django.

doit - A task runner and build tool.

gunnery - Multipurpose task execution tool for distributed systems with web-based interface.

Joblib - A set of tools to provide lightweight pipelining in Python.

Plan - Writing crontab le in Python like a charm.

schedule - Python job scheduling for humans.

Spiff - A powerful work ow engine implemented in pure Python.

TaskFlow - A Python library that helps to make task execution easy, consistent and reliable.

Air ow - Air ow is a platform to programmatically author, schedule and monitor work ows.

Logging
Libraries for generating and working with logs.

Eliot - Logging for complex & distributed systems.

logbook - Logging replacement for Python.

logging - (Python standard library) Logging facility for Python.

raven - Python client for Sentry, a log/error tracking, crash reporting and aggregation
platform for web applications.

Machine Learning
Libraries for Machine Learning. Also see awesome-machine-learning.

H2O - Open Source Fast Scalable Machine Learning Platform.

Metrics - Machine learning evaluation metrics.

NuPIC - Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing.

scikit-learn - The most popular Python library for Machine Learning.

Spark ML - Apache Spark's scalable Machine Learning library.

vowpal_porpoise - A lightweight Python wrapper for Vowpal Wabbit.

xgboost - A scalable, portable, and distributed gradient boosting library.

Microsoft Windows
Python programming on Microsoft Windows.

Python(x,y) - Scienti c-applications-oriented Python Distribution based on Qt and Spyder.

pythonlibs - Uno cial Windows binaries for Python extension packages.

PythonNet - Python Integration with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR).

PyWin32 - Python Extensions for Windows.

WinPython - Portable development environment for Windows 7/8.

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

blinker - A fast Python in-process signal/event dispatching system.

boltons - A set of pure-Python utilities.

itsdangerous - Various helpers to pass trusted data to untrusted environments.

pluginbase - A simple but exible plugin system for Python.

tryton - A general purpose business framework.

Natural Language Processing

Libraries for working with human languages.

General

gensim - Topic Modeling for Humans.

langid.py - Stand-alone language identi cation system.

nltk - A leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language
data.

pattern - A web mining module.

polyglot - Natural language pipeline supporting hundreds of languages.

pytext - A natural language modeling framework based on PyTorch.

PyTorch-NLP - A toolkit enabling rapid deep learning NLP prototyping for research.

spacy - A library for industrial-strength natural language processing in Python and

Cython.

Stanza - The Stanford NLP Group's o cial Python library, supporting 60+ languages.

Chinese

jieba - The most popular Chinese text segmentation library.

pkuseg-python - A toolkit for Chinese word segmentation in various domains.

snownlp - A library for processing Chinese text.

funNLP - A collection of tools and datasets for Chinese NLP.

Network Virtualization
Tools and libraries for Virtual Networking and SDN (Software De ned Networking).

mininet - A popular network emulator and API written in Python.

napalm - Cross-vendor API to manipulate network devices.

pox - A Python-based SDN control applications, such as OpenFlow SDN controllers.

News Feed
Libraries for building user's activities.

django-activity-stream - Generating generic activity streams from the actions on your site.

Stream Framework - Building news feed and noti cation systems using Cassandra and
Redis.

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

Relational Databases

Django Models - The Django ORM.

SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper.

awesome-sqlalchemy

dataset - Store Python dicts in a database - works with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.

orator - The Orator ORM provides a simple yet beautiful ActiveRecord implementation.

orm - An async ORM.

peewee - A small, expressive ORM.

pony - ORM that provides a generator-oriented interface to SQL.

pydal - A pure Python Database Abstraction Layer.

NoSQL Databases

hot-redis - Rich Python data types for Redis.

mongoengine - A Python Object-Document-Mapper for working with MongoDB.

PynamoDB - A Pythonic interface for Amazon DynamoDB.

redisco - A Python Library for Simple Models and Containers Persisted in Redis.

Package Management
Libraries for package and dependency management.

pip - The package installer for Python.

PyPI

pip-tools - A set of tools to keep your pinned Python dependencies fresh.

poetry - Python dependency management and packaging made easy.

conda - Cross-platform, Python-agnostic binary package manager.

Package Repositories
Local PyPI repository server and proxies.

warehouse - Next generation Python Package Repository (PyPI).

bandersnatch - PyPI mirroring tool provided by Python Packaging Authority (PyPA).

devpi - PyPI server and packaging/testing/release tool.

localshop - Local PyPI server (custom packages and auto-mirroring of pypi).

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

django-guardian - Implementation of per object permissions for Django 1.2+

django-rules - A tiny but powerful app providing object-level permissions to Django, without
requiring a database.

Processes
Libraries for starting and communicating with OS processes.

delegator.py - Subprocesses for Humans 2.0.

sarge - Yet another wrapper for subprocess.

sh - A full- edged subprocess replacement for Python.

Recommender Systems
Libraries for building recommender systems.

annoy - Approximate Nearest Neighbors in C++/Python optimized for memory usage.

fastFM - A library for Factorization Machines.

implicit - A fast Python implementation of collaborative ltering for implicit datasets.

libffm - A library for Field-aware Factorization Machine (FFM).

lightfm - A Python implementation of a number of popular recommendation algorithms.

spotlight - Deep recommender models using PyTorch.

Surprise - A scikit for building and analyzing recommender systems.

tensorrec - A Recommendation Engine Framework in TensorFlow.

Refactoring
Refactoring tools and libraries for Python

Bicycle Repair Man - Bicycle Repair Man, a refactoring tool for Python.

Bowler - Safe code refactoring for modern Python.

Rope - Rope is a python refactoring library.

RESTful API
Libraries for building RESTful APIs.

Django

django-rest-framework - A powerful and exible toolkit to build web APIs.

django-tastypie - Creating delicious APIs for Django apps.

Flask

eve - REST API framework powered by Flask, MongoDB and good intentions.

ask-api - Browsable Web APIs for Flask.

ask-restful - Quickly building REST APIs for Flask.

Pyramid

cornice - A RESTful framework for Pyramid.

Framework agnostic

apistar - A smart Web API framework, designed for Python 3.

falcon - A high-performance framework for building cloud APIs and web app backends.

fastapi - A modern, fast, web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on
standard Python type hints.

hug - A Python 3 framework for cleanly exposing APIs.

sandman2 - Automated REST APIs for existing database-driven systems.

sanic - A Python 3.6+ web server and web framework that's written to go fast.

vibora - Fast, e cient and asynchronous Web framework inspired by Flask.

Robotics
Libraries for robotics.

PythonRobotics - This is a compilation of various robotics algorithms with visualizations.

rospy - This is a library for ROS (Robot Operating System).

RPC Servers
RPC-compatible servers.

zeroRPC - zerorpc is a exible RPC implementation based on ZeroMQ and MessagePack.

RPyC (Remote Python Call) - A transparent and symmetric RPC library for Python

Science
Libraries for scienti c computing. Also see Python-for-Scientists

astropy - A community Python library for Astronomy.

bcbio-nextgen - Providing best-practice pipelines for fully automated high throughput

sequencing analysis.

bccb - Collection of useful code related to biological analysis.

Biopython - Biopython is a set of freely available tools for biological computation.

cclib - A library for parsing and interpreting the results of computational chemistry packages.

Colour - Implementing a comprehensive number of colour theory transformations and

algorithms.

Karate Club - Unsupervised machine learning toolbox for graph structured data.

NetworkX - A high-productivity software for complex networks.

NIPY - A collection of neuroimaging toolkits.

NumPy - A fundamental package for scienti c computing with Python.

Open Babel - A chemical toolbox designed to speak the many languages of chemical data.

ObsPy - A Python toolbox for seismology.

PyDy - Short for Python Dynamics, used to assist with work ow in the modeling of dynamic
motion.

PyMC - Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.

QuTiP - Quantum Toolbox in Python.

RDKit - Cheminformatics and Machine Learning Software.

SciPy - A Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and

engineering.

statsmodels - Statistical modeling and econometrics in Python.

SymPy - A Python library for symbolic mathematics.

Zipline - A Pythonic algorithmic trading library.

SimPy - A process-based discrete-event simulation framework.

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

elasticsearch-py - The o cial low-level Python client for Elasticsearch.

elasticsearch-dsl-py - The o cial high-level Python client for Elasticsearch.

django-haystack - Modular search for Django.

pysolr - A lightweight Python wrapper for Apache Solr.

whoosh - A fast, pure Python search engine library.

Serialization
Libraries for serializing complex data types

marshmallow - A lightweight library for converting complex objects to and from simple
Python datatypes.

pysimdjson - A Python bindings for simdjson.

python-rapidjson - A Python wrapper around RapidJSON.

ultrajson - A fast JSON decoder and encoder written in C with Python bindings.

Serverless Frameworks
Frameworks for developing serverless Python code.

python-lambda - A toolkit for developing and deploying Python code in AWS Lambda.

Zappa - A tool for deploying WSGI applications on AWS Lambda and API Gateway.

Speci c Formats Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating speci c text formats.

General

tablib - A module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML.

O ce

openpyxl - A library for reading and writing Excel 2010 xlsx/xlsm/xltx/xltm les.

pyexcel - Providing one API for reading, manipulating and writing csv, ods, xls, xlsx and
xlsm les.

python-docx - Reads, queries and modi es Microsoft Word 2007/2008 docx les.

python-pptx - Python library for creating and updating PowerPoint (.pptx) les.

unoconv - Convert between any document format supported by LibreO ce/OpenO ce.

XlsxWriter - A Python module for creating Excel .xlsx les.

xlwings - A BSD-licensed library that makes it easy to call Python from Excel and vice
versa.

xlwt / xlrd - Writing and reading data and formatting information from Excel les.

PDF

PDFMiner - A tool for extracting information from PDF documents.

PyPDF2 - A library capable of splitting, merging and transforming PDF pages.

ReportLab - Allowing Rapid creation of rich PDF documents.

Markdown

Mistune - Fastest and full featured pure Python parsers of Markdown.

Python-Markdown - A Python implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown.

YAML

PyYAML - YAML implementations for Python.

CSV

csvkit - Utilities for converting to and working with CSV.

Archive

unp - A command line tool that can unpack archives easily.

Static Site Generator

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

mkdocs - Markdown friendly documentation generator.

pelican - Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax.

lektor - An easy to use static CMS and blog engine.

nikola - A static website and blog generator.

Tagging
Libraries for tagging items.

django-taggit - Simple tagging for Django.

Task Queues
Libraries for working with task queues.

celery - An asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.

huey - Little multi-threaded task queue.

mrq - A distributed worker task queue in Python using Redis & gevent.

rq - Simple job queues for Python.

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.

Testing
Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

Testing Frameworks

pytest - A mature full-featured Python testing tool.

hypothesis - Hypothesis is an advanced Quickcheck style property based testing library.

nose2 - The successor to nose , based on `unittest2.

Robot Framework - A generic test automation framework.

unittest - (Python standard library) Unit testing framework.

Test Runners

green - A clean, colorful test runner.

mamba - The de nitive testing tool for Python. Born under the banner of BDD.

tox - Auto builds and tests distributions in multiple Python versions

GUI / Web Testing

locust - Scalable user load testing tool written in Python.

PyAutoGUI - PyAutoGUI is a cross-platform GUI automation Python module for human

beings.

Selenium - Python bindings for Selenium WebDriver.

sixpack - A language-agnostic A/B Testing framework.

splinter - Open source tool for testing web applications.

Mock

mock - (Python standard library) A mocking and patching library.

doublex - Powerful test doubles framework for Python.

freezegun - Travel through time by mocking the datetime module.

httmock - A mocking library for requests for Python 2.6+ and 3.2+.

httpretty - HTTP request mock tool for Python.

mocket - A socket mock framework with gevent/asyncio/SSL support.

responses - A utility library for mocking out the requests Python library.

VCR.py - Record and replay HTTP interactions on your tests.

Object Factories

factory_boy - A test xtures replacement for Python.

mixer - Another xtures replacement. Supported Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Peewee

and etc.

model_mommy - Creating random xtures for testing in Django.

Code Coverage

coverage - Code coverage measurement.

Fake Data

mimesis - is a Python library that help you generate fake data.

fake2db - Fake database generator.

faker - A Python package that generates fake data.

radar - Generate random datetime / time.

Text Processing
Libraries for parsing and manipulating plain texts.

General

chardet - Python 2/3 compatible character encoding detector.

di ib - (Python standard library) Helpers for computing deltas.

ftfy - Makes Unicode text less broken and more consistent automagically.

fuzzywuzzy - Fuzzy String Matching.

Levenshtein - Fast computation of Levenshtein distance and string similarity.

pangu.py - Paranoid text spacing.

py glet - An implementation of glet written in Python.

pypinyin - Convert Chinese hanzi (漢字) to pinyin (拼⾳).

textdistance - Compute distance between sequences with 30+ algorithms.

unidecode - ASCII transliterations of Unicode text.

Slugify

awesome-slugify - A Python slugify library that can preserve unicode.

python-slugify - A Python slugify library that translates unicode to ASCII.

unicode-slugify - A slugi er that generates unicode slugs with Django as a dependency.

Unique identi ers

hashids - Implementation of hashids in Python.

shortuuid - A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs.

Parser

ply - Implementation of lex and yacc parsing tools for Python.

pygments - A generic syntax highlighter.

pyparsing - A general purpose framework for generating parsers.

python-nameparser - Parsing human names into their individual components.

python-phonenumbers - Parsing, formatting, storing and validating international phone

numbers.

python-user-agents - Browser user agent parser.

sqlparse - A non-validating SQL parser.

Third-party APIs
Libraries for accessing third party services APIs. Also see List of Python API Wrappers and
Libraries.

apache-libcloud - One Python library for all clouds.

boto3 - Python interface to Amazon Web Services.

django-wordpress - WordPress models and views for Django.

facebook-sdk - Facebook Platform Python SDK.

google-api-python-client - Google APIs Client Library for Python.

gspread - Google Spreadsheets Python API.

twython - A Python wrapper for the Twitter API.

URL Manipulation
Libraries for parsing URLs.

furl - A small Python library that makes parsing and manipulating URLs easy.

purl - A simple, immutable URL class with a clean API for interrogation and manipulation.

pyshorteners - A pure Python URL shortening lib.

webargs - A friendly library for parsing HTTP request arguments with built-in support for
popular web frameworks.

Video
Libraries for manipulating video and GIFs.

vidgear - Most Powerful multi-threaded Video Processing framework.

moviepy - A module for script-based movie editing with many formats, including animated
GIFs.

scikit-video - Video processing routines for SciPy.

Web Asset Management

Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.

django-compressor - Compresses linked and inline JavaScript or CSS into a single cached
le.

django-pipeline - An asset packaging library for Django.

django-storages - A collection of custom storage back ends for Django.

fanstatic - Packages, optimizes, and serves static le dependencies as Python packages.

leconveyor - A daemon to detect and sync les to CDNs, S3 and FTP.

ask-assets - Helps you integrate webassets into your Flask app.

webassets - Bundles, optimizes, and manages unique cache-busting URLs for static
resources.

Web Content Extracting

Libraries for extracting web contents.

html2text - Convert HTML to Markdown-formatted text.

lassie - Web Content Retrieval for Humans.

micawber - A small library for extracting rich content from URLs.

newspaper - News extraction, article extraction and content curation in Python.

python-readability - Fast Python port of arc90's readability tool.

requests-html - Pythonic HTML Parsing for Humans.

sumy - A module for automatic summarization of text documents and HTML pages.

textract - Extract text from any document, Word, PowerPoint, PDFs, etc.

toapi - Every web site provides APIs.

Web Crawling
Libraries to automate web scraping.

cola - A distributed crawling framework.

feedparser - Universal feed parser.

grab - Site scraping framework.

MechanicalSoup - A Python library for automating interaction with websites.

pyspider - A powerful spider system.

robobrowser - A simple, Pythonic library for browsing the web without a standalone web
browser.

scrapy - A fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework.

portia - Visual scraping for Scrapy.

Web Frameworks
Traditional full stack web frameworks. Also see RESTful API

Synchronous

Django - The most popular web framework in Python.

awesome-django

awesome-django

Flask - A microframework for Python.

awesome- ask

Pyramid - A small, fast, down-to-earth, open source Python web framework.

awesome-pyramid

Masonite - The modern and developer centric Python web framework.

Asynchronous

Tornado - A web framework and asynchronous networking library.

WebSocket
Libraries for working with WebSocket.

autobahn-python - WebSocket & WAMP for Python on Twisted and asyncio.

channels - Developer-friendly asynchrony for Django.

websockets - A library for building WebSocket servers and clients with a focus on
correctness and simplicity.

WSGI Servers
WSGI-compatible web servers.

bjoern - Asynchronous, very fast and written in C.

gunicorn - Pre-forked, partly written in C.

uWSGI - A project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services, written in C.

waitress - Multi-threaded, powers Pyramid.

werkzeug - A WSGI utility library for Python that powers Flask and can easily be embedded
into your own projects.

Resources

Where to discover new Python libraries.

Podcasts
From Python Import Podcast

Podcast.init

Python Bytes

Python Testing

Radio Free Python

Talk Python To Me

Test and Code

The Real Python Podcast

Twitter
@codetengu

@getpy

@importpython

@planetpython

@pycoders

@pypi

@pythontrending

@PythonWeekly

@TalkPython

@realpython

Websites
/r/CoolGithubProjects

/r/Python

Awesome Python @LibHunt

Django Packages

Full Stack Python

Python Cheatsheet

Python ZEEF

Python 开发社区

Real Python

Trending Python repositories on GitHub today

Сообщество Python Программистов

Pythonic News

Weekly
CodeTengu Weekly 碼天狗週刊

Import Python Newsletter

Pycoder's Weekly

Python Weekly

Python Tricks

Contributing

Your contributions are always welcome! Please take a look at the contribution guidelines rst.

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could vote for them by adding :+1: to them. Pull requests will be merged when their votes reach
20.

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