Extract below is a curated list of Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources fromhttps://github.com/vinta/awesome-python#awesome-python (it is recommended to clone this git source to stay in sync with the latest updates).

Environment Management

Libraries for Python version and environment management.

• p – Dead simple interactive Python version management.
• pyenv – Simple Python version management.
• venv – (Python standard library in Python 3.3+) Creating lightweight virtual environments.
• virtualenv – A tool to create isolated Python environments.
• virtualenvwrapper – A set of extensions to virtualenv.

Package Management

Libraries for package and dependency management.

• pip – The Python package and dependency manager.
  • Python Package Index
• pip-tools – A set of tools to keep your pinned Python dependencies fresh.
• 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.

Package Repositories

Local PyPI repository server and proxies.

• warehouse – Next generation Python Package Repository (PyPI).
  • Warehouse
• 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).

Distribution

Libraries to create packaged executables for release distribution.

• PyInstaller – Converts Python programs into stand-alone executables (cross-platform).
• 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).
• pynsist – A tool to build Windows installers, installers bundle Python itself.

Build Tools

Compile software from source code.

• buildout – A build system for creating, assembling and deploying applications from multiple parts.
• BitBake – A make-like build tool for embedded Linux.
• 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.

Interactive Interpreter

Interactive Python interpreters (REPL).

• Jupyter Notebook (IPython) – A rich toolkit to help you make the most out of using Python interactively.
• bpython – A fancy interface to the Python interpreter.
• ptpython – Advanced Python REPL built on top of the python-prompt-toolkit.

Files

Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.

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

Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

• arrow – Better dates & times for Python.
• 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.
• PyTime – A easy-use Python module which aims to operate date/time/datetime by string.
• pytz – World timezone definitions, modern and historical. Brings the tz database into Python.
• when.py – Providing user-friendly functions to help perform common date and time actions.

Excel

• https://www.pyxll.com/blog/tools-for-working-with-excel-and-python/

Text Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating plain texts.

• General
  • chardet – Python 2/3 compatible character encoding detector.
  • difflib – (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 – Spacing texts for CJK and alphanumerics.
  • pyfiglet – An implementation of figlet written in Python.
  • shortuuid – A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs.
  • unidecode – ASCII transliterations of Unicode text.
  • uniout – Print readable chars instead of the escaped string.
  • xpinyin – A library to translate Chinese hanzi (漢字) to pinyin (拼音).
• 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 slugifier that generates unicode slugs with Django as a dependency.
• Parser
  • phonenumbers – Parsing, formatting, storing and validating international phone numbers.
  • 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-user-agents – Browser user agent parser.
  • sqlparse – A non-validating SQL parser.

Specific Formats Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating specific text formats.

• General
  • tablib – A module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML.
• Office
  • Marmir – Takes Python data structures and turns them into spreadsheets.
  • openpyxl – A library for reading and writing Excel 2010 xlsx/xlsm/xltx/xltm files.
  • pyexcel – Providing one API for reading, manipulating and writing csv, ods, xls, xlsx and xlsm files.
  • python-docx – Reads, queries and modifies Microsoft Word 2007/2008 docx files.
  • relatorio – Templating OpenDocument files.
  • unoconv – Convert between any document format supported by LibreOffice/OpenOffice.
  • XlsxWriter – A Python module for creating Excel .xlsx files.
  • 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 files.
• 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.

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.
• Jieba – Chinese text segmentation.
• SnowNLP – A library for processing Chinese text.
• spaCy – A library for industrial-strength natural language processing in Python and Cython.
• TextBlob – Providing a consistent API for diving into common NLP tasks.
• TextGrocery – A simple, efficient short-text classification tool based on LibLinear and Jieba.
• langid.py – Stand-alone language identification system.

Documentation

Libraries for generating project documentation.

• Sphinx – Python Documentation generator.
  • awesome-sphinxdoc
• MkDocs – Markdown friendly documentation generator.
• pdoc – Epydoc replacement to auto generate API documentation for Python libraries.
• Pycco – The literate-programming-style documentation generator.

Configuration

Libraries for storing and parsing configuration options.

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

Command-line Tools

Libraries for building command-line application.

• Command-line Application Development
  • asciimatics – Cross-platform, full-screen terminal package (i.e. mouse/keyboard input and coloured, positioned text output) complete with high-level API for complex animations and special effects.
  • 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.
  • clint – Python Command-line Application Tools.
  • colorama – Cross-platform colored terminal text.
  • docopt – Pythonic command line arguments parser.
  • Gooey – Turn command line programs into a full GUI application with one line
  • python-prompt-toolkit – A Library for building powerful interactive command lines.
• Productivity Tools
  • aws-cli – A universal command-line interface for Amazon Web Services.
  • bashplotlib – Making basic plots in the terminal.
  • caniusepython3 – Determine what projects are blocking you from porting to Python 3.
  • 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.
  • httpie – A command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement.
  • PathPicker – Select files out of bash output.
  • percol – Adds flavor of interactive selection to the traditional pipe concept on UNIX.
  • SAWS – A Supercharged AWS CLI.
  • thefuck – Correcting your previous console command.
  • try – A dead simple CLI to try out python packages – It’s never been easier.
  • mycli – A Terminal Client for MySQL with AutoCompletion and Syntax Highlighting.
  • pgcli – Postgres CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.

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.

Imagery

Libraries for manipulating images.

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

OCR

Libraries for Optical Character Recognition.

• pyocr – A wrapper for Tesseract and Cuneiform.
• pytesseract – Another wrapper for Google Tesseract OCR.

Audio

Libraries for manipulating audio.

• audiolazy – Expressive Digital Signal Processing (DSP) package for Python.
• audioread – Cross-library (GStreamer + Core Audio + MAD + FFmpeg) audio decoding.
• beets – A music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger.
• dejavu – Audio fingerprinting and recognition.
• django-elastic-transcoder – Django + Amazon Elastic Transcoder.
• eyeD3 – A tool for working with audio files, specifically MP3 files containing ID3 metadata.
• id3reader – A Python module for reading MP3 meta data.
• m3u8 – A module for parsing m3u8 file.
• mutagen – A Python module to handle audio metadata.
• pydub – Manipulate audio with a simple and easy high level interface.
• pyechonest – Python client for the Echo Nest API.
• talkbox – A Python library for speech/signal processing.
• TimeSide – Open web audio processing framework.
• tinytag – A library for reading music meta data of MP3, OGG, FLAC and Wave files.
• mingus – An advanced music theory and notation package with MIDI file and playback support.

Video

Libraries for manipulating video and GIFs.

• moviepy – A module for script-based movie editing with many formats, including animated GIFs.
• 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.
• GeoIP – Python API for MaxMind GeoIP Legacy Database.
• geojson – Python bindings and utilities for GeoJSON.
• geopy – Python Geocoding Toolbox.
• pygeoip – Pure Python GeoIP API.
• django-countries – A Django app that provides country choices for use with forms, flag icons static files, and a country field for models.

HTTP

Libraries for working with HTTP.

• requests – HTTP Requests for Humans™.
• grequests – requests + gevent for asynchronous HTTP requests.
• httplib2 – Comprehensive HTTP client library.
• treq – Python requests like API built on top of Twisted’s HTTP client.
• urllib3 – A HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post support, sanity friendly.

Database

Databases implemented in Python.

• pickleDB – A simple and lightweight key-value store for Python.
• PipelineDB – The Streaming SQL Database.
• 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
  • mysql-python – The MySQL database connector for Python.
  • mysqlclient – mysql-python fork supporting Python 3.
  • oursql – A better MySQL connector with support for native prepared statements and BLOBs.
  • PyMySQL – Pure Python MySQL driver compatible to mysql-python.
• PostgreSQL
  • psycopg2 – The most popular PostgreSQL adapter for Python.
  • queries – A wrapper of the psycopg2 library for interacting with PostgreSQL.
  • txpostgres – Twisted based asynchronous driver for PostgreSQL.
• Other Relational Databases
  • apsw – Another Python SQLite wrapper.
  • dataset – Store Python dicts in a database – works with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
  • pymssql – A simple database interface to Microsoft SQL Server.
• NoSQL Databases
  • cassandra-python-driver – Python driver for Cassandra.
  • HappyBase – A developer-friendly library for Apache HBase.
  • Plyvel – A fast and feature-rich Python interface to LevelDB.
  • py2neo – Python wrapper client for Neo4j’s restful interface.
  • pycassa – Python Thrift driver for Cassandra.
  • PyMongo – The official Python client for MongoDB.
  • redis-py – The Redis Python Client.
  • telephus – Twisted based client for Cassandra.
  • txRedis – Twisted based client for Redis.

ORM

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

• Relational Databases
  • Django Models – A part of Django.
  • SQLAlchemy – The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper.
    • awesome-sqlalchemy
  • Peewee – A small, expressive ORM.
  • PonyORM – ORM that provides a generator-oriented interface to SQL.
  • python-sql – Write SQL queries pythonically.
• NoSQL Databases
  • django-mongodb-engine – Django MongoDB Backend.
  • PynamoDB – A Pythonic interface for Amazon DynamoDB.
  • flywheel – Object mapper for Amazon DynamoDB.
  • MongoEngine – A Python Object-Document-Mapper for working with MongoDB.
  • hot-redis – Rich Python data types for Redis.
  • redisco – A Python Library for Simple Models and Containers Persisted in Redis.
• Others
  • butterdb – A Python ORM for Google Drive Spreadsheets.

Web Frameworks

Full stack web frameworks.

• Django – The most popular web framework in Python.
  • awesome-django
• Flask – A microframework for Python.
  • awesome-flask
• Pyramid – A small, fast, down-to-earth, open source Python web framework.
  • awesome-pyramid
• Bottle – A fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework.
• CherryPy – A minimalist Python web framework, HTTP/1.1-compliant and WSGI thread-pooled.
• TurboGears – A microframework that can scale up to a full stack solution.
• web.py – A web framework for Python that is as simple as it is powerful.
• web2py – A full stack web framework and platform focused in the ease of use.
• Tornado – A Web framework and asynchronous networking library.

Serverless Frameworks

Frameworks for developing serverless Python code.

• apex – Build, deploy, and manage AWS Lambda functions with ease.
• Zappa – A tool for deploying WSGI applications on AWS Lambda and API Gateway.
• python-lambda – A toolkit for developing and deploying Python code in AWS Lambda.

Permissions

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

• Carteblanche – Module to align code with thoughts of users and designers. Also magically handles navigation and permissions.
• 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.

CMS

Content Management Systems.

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

E-commerce

Frameworks and libraries for e-commerce and payments.

• django-oscar – An open-source e-commerce framework for Django.
• django-shop – A Django based shop system.
• Cartridge – A shopping cart app built using the Mezzanine.
• shoop – An open source E-Commerce platform based on Django.
• alipay – Unofficial Alipay API for Python.
• 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 solution.
• python-currencies – Display money format and its filthy currencies.

RESTful API

Libraries for developing RESTful APIs.

• Django
  • django-rest-framework – A powerful and flexible toolkit to build web APIs.
  • django-tastypie – Creating delicious APIs for Django apps.
  • django-formapi – Create JSON APIs with Django’s form validation.
• Flask
  • flask-api – Browsable Web APIs for Flask.
  • flask-restful – Quickly building REST APIs for Flask.
  • flask-restless – Generating RESTful APIs for database models defined with SQLAlchemy.
  • flask-api-utils – Taking care of API representation and authentication for Flask.
  • eve – REST API framework powered by Flask, MongoDB and good intentions.
• Pyramid
  • cornice – A RESTful framework for Pyramid.
• Framework agnostic
  • falcon – A high-performance framework for building cloud APIs and web app backends.
  • hug – A Python3 framework for cleanly exposing APIs over HTTP and the Command Line with automatic documentation and validation.
  • sandman – Automated REST APIs for existing database-driven systems.
  • restless – Framework agnostic REST framework based on lessons learned from Tastypie.
  • ripozo – Quickly creating REST/HATEOAS/Hypermedia APIs.

Serialization

Libraries for serializing complex data types

• marshmallow – marshmallow is an ORM/ODM/framework-agnostic library for converting complex datatypes, such as objects, to and from native Python datatypes.

Authentication

Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.

• OAuth
  • Authomatic – Simple but powerful framework agnostic authentication/authorization client.
  • django-allauth – Authentication app for Django that “just works.”
  • django-oauth-toolkit – OAuth2 goodies for the Djangonauts.
  • django-oauth2-provider – Providing OAuth2 access to Django app.
  • Flask-OAuthlib – OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0 implementation of client and provider for Flask.
  • 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.
  • rauth – A Python library for OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0, and Ofly.
  • sanction – A dead simple OAuth2 client implementation.
• Others
  • jose – JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption draft implementation.
  • PyJWT – Implementation of the JSON Web Token draft 01.
  • python-jws – Implementation of JSON Web Signatures draft 02.
  • python-jwt – Module for generating and verifying JSON Web 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.

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.
• elasticsearch-dsl-py – The official high-level Python client for Elasticsearch.
• esengine – ElasticSearch ODM (Object Document Mapper) for Python.
• solrpy – A Python client for solr.
• Whoosh – A fast, pure Python search engine library.

News Feed

Libraries for building user’s activities.

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

Asset Management

Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.

• django-compressor – Compresses linked and inline JavaScript or CSS into a single cached file.
• 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 file dependencies as Python packages.
• fileconveyor – A daemon to detect and sync files to CDNs, S3 and FTP.
• flask-assets – Helps you integrate webassets into your Flask app.
• jinja-assets-compressor – A Jinja extension to compile and compress your assets.
• webassets – Bundles, optimizes, and manages unique cache-busting URLs for static resources.

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

• Beaker – A library for caching and sessions for use with web applications and stand-alone Python scripts and applications.
• django-cache-machine – Automatic caching and invalidation for Django models.
• django-cacheops – A slick ORM cache with automatic granular event-driven invalidation.
• django-viewlet – Render template parts with extended cache control.
• 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.
• johnny-cache – A caching framework for django applications.
• pylibmc – A Python wrapper around the libmemcached interface.
• DiskCache – SQLite and file backed cache backend with faster lookups than memcached and redis.

Email

Libraries for sending and parsing email.

• envelopes – Mailing for human beings.
• flanker – A email address and Mime parsing library.
• imbox – Python IMAP for Humans.
• inbox.py – Python SMTP Server for Humans.
• lamson – Pythonic SMTP Application Server.
• Marrow Mailer – High-performance extensible mail delivery framework.
• modoboa – A mail hosting and management platform including a modern and simplified Web UI.
• Nylas Sync Engine – Providing a RESTful API on top of a powerful email sync platform.
• yagmail – Yet another Gmail/SMTP client.

Internationalization

Libraries for working with i18n.

• Babel – An internationalization library for Python.
• PyICU – A wrapper of International Components for Unicode C++ library (ICU).

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.
• short_url – Python implementation for generating Tiny URL and bit.ly-like URLs.
• webargs – A friendly library for parsing HTTP request arguments, with built-in support for popular web frameworks, including Flask, Django, Bottle, Tornado, and Pyramid.

HTML Manipulation

Libraries for working with HTML and XML.

• BeautifulSoup – Providing Pythonic idioms for iterating, searching, and modifying HTML or XML.
• bleach – A whitelist-based HTML sanitization and text linkification 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.
• xhtml2pdf – HTML/CSS to PDF converter.
• xmltodict – Working with XML feel like you are working with JSON.

Web Crawling

Libraries for scraping websites.

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

Web Content Extracting

Libraries for extracting web contents.

• Haul – An Extensible Image Crawler.
• 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.
• opengraph – A Python module to parse the Open Graph Protocol
• python-goose – HTML Content/Article Extractor.
• python-readability – Fast Python port of arc90’s readability tool.
• sanitize – Bringing sanity to world of messed-up data.
• sumy – A module for automatic summarization of text documents and HTML pages.
• textract – Extract text from any document, Word, PowerPoint, PDFs, etc.

Forms

Libraries for working with forms.

• Deform – Python HTML form generation library influenced by the formish form generation library.
• django-bootstrap3 – Bootstrap 3 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 flexible forms validation and rendering library.

Data Validation

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

• Schematics – Data Structure Validation.
• schema – A library for validating Python data structures.
• jsonschema – An implementation of JSON Schema for Python.
• Cerberus – A lightweight and extensible data validation library.
• colander – Validating and deserializing data obtained via XML, JSON, an HTML form post.
• voluptuous – A Python data validation library.
• valideer – Lightweight extensible data validation and adaptation library.

Anti-spam

Libraries for fighting spam.

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

Tagging

Libraries for tagging items.

• django-taggit – Simple tagging for Django.

Admin Panels

Libraries for administrative interfaces.

• Ajenti – The admin panel your servers deserve.
• 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.
• Grappelli – A jazzy skin for the Django Admin-Interface.
• Wooey – A Django app which creates automatic web UIs for Python scripts.

Static Site Generator

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

• 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.
• Tinkerer – Tinkerer is a blogging engine/.static website generator powered by Sphinx.
• Lektor – An easy to use static CMS and blog engine.

Processes

Libraries for starting and communicating with OS processes.

• envoy – Python subprocess for Humans™.
• sarge – Yet another wrapper for subprocess.
• sh – A full-fledged subprocess replacement for Python.

Concurrency and Parallelism

Libraries for concurrent and parallel execution.

• multiprocessing – (Python standard library) Process-based “threading” interface.
• threading – (Python standard library) Higher-level threading interface.
• eventlet – Asynchronous framework with WSGI support.
• gevent – A coroutine-based Python networking library that uses greenlet.
• Tomorrow – Magic decorator syntax for asynchronous code.

Networking

Libraries for networking programming.

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

WebSocket

Libraries for working with WebSocket.

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

WSGI Servers

WSGI-compatible web servers.

• gunicorn – Pre-forked, partly written in C.
• uwsgi – A project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services, written in C.
• bjoern – Asynchronous, very fast and written in C.
• fapws3 – Asynchronous (network side only), written in C.
• meinheld – Asynchronous, partly written in C.
• netius – Asynchronous, very fast.
• paste – Multi-threaded, stable, tried and tested.
• rocket – Multi-threaded.
• waitress – Multi-threaded, poweres Pyramid.
• Werkzeug – A WSGI utility library for Python that powers Flask and can easily be embedded into your own projects.

RPC Servers

RPC-compatible servers.

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

Cryptography

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

GUI

Libraries for working with graphical user interface applications.

• curses – Built-in wrapper for ncurses used to create terminal GUI applications.
• enaml – Creating beautiful user-interfaces with Declaratic Syntax like QML.
• 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.
• 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.
• 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.
• PyGObject – Python Bindings for GLib/GObject/GIO/GTK+ (GTK+3)
• Flexx – Flexx is a pure Python toolkit for creating GUI’s, that uses web technology for its rendering.

Game Development

Awesome game development libraries.

• Cocos2d – cocos2d is a framework for building 2D games, demos, and other graphical/interactive applications. It is based on pyglet.
• Panda3D – 3D game engine developed by Disney and maintained by Carnegie Mellon’s Entertainment Technology Center. Written in C++, completely wrapped in Python.
• 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.

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with logs.

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

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

• Testing Frameworks
  • unittest – (Python standard library) Unit testing framework.
  • nose – A nicer unittest for Python.
  • pytest – A mature full-featured Python testing tool.
  • hypothesis – Hypothesis is an advanced Quickcheck style property based testing library.
  • mamba – The definitive testing tool for Python. Born under the banner of BDD.
  • Robot Framework – A generic test automation framework.
• Test Runners
  • tox – Auto builds and tests distributions in multiple Python versions
  • green – A clean, colorful test runner.
• GUI / Web Testing
  • Selenium – Python bindings for Selenium WebDriver.
  • locust – Scalable user load testing tool written in Python.
  • sixpack – A language-agnostic A/B Testing framework.
  • splinter – Open source tool for testing web applications.
  • PyAutoGUI – PyAutoGUI is a cross-platform GUI automation Python module for human beings.
• 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.
  • 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 fixtures replacement for Python.
  • mixer – Another fixtures replacement. Supported Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Peewee and etc.
  • model_mommy – Creating random fixtures for testing in Django.
• Code Coverage
  • coverage – Code coverage measurement.
• Fake Data
  • faker – A Python package that generates fake data.
  • fake2db – Fake database generator.
  • radar – Generate random datetime / time.
• 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.

• Code Analysis
  • code2flow – Turn your Python and JavaScript code into DOT flowcharts.
  • pycallgraph – A library that visualises the flow (call graph) of your Python application.
  • pysonar2 – A type inferencer and indexer for Python.
  • coala – Language independent and easily extendable code analysis application.
• Linter
  • Flake8 – The modular source code checker: pep8, pyflakes and co.
  • Pylint – A Fully customizable source code analyzer.
  • pylama – Code audit tool for Python and JavaScript.

Debugging Tools

Libraries for debugging code.

• Debugger
  • ipdb – IPython-enabled pdb.
  • pudb – A full-screen, console-based Python debugger.
  • pyringe – Debugger capable of attaching to and injecting code into Python processes.
  • wdb – An improbable web debugger through WebSockets.
  • winpdb – A Python Debugger with GUI, capable of remote debugging based on rpdb2.
  • django-debug-toolbar – Display various debug information for Django.
  • django-devserver – A drop-in replacement for Django’s runserver.
  • flask-debugtoolbar – A port of the django-debug-toolbar to flask.
• Profiler
  • line_profiler – Line-by-line profiling.
  • memory_profiler – Monitor Memory usage of Python code.
  • profiling – An interactive Python profiler.
• Others
  • pyelftools – Parsing and analyzing ELF files and DWARF debugging information.
  • python-statsd – Python Client for the statsd server.

Science and Data Analysis

Libraries for scientific computing and data analyzing.

• astropy – A community Python library for Astronomy.
• bcbio-nextgen – A toolkit 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.
• blaze – NumPy and Pandas interface to Big Data.
• cclib – A library for parsing and interpreting the results of computational chemistry packages.
• NetworkX – A high-productivity software for complex networks.
• Neupy – Running and testing different Artificial Neural Networks algorithms.
• NIPY – A collection of neuroimaging toolkits.
• Numba – Python JIT (just in time) complier to LLVM aimed at scientific Python by the developers of Cython and NumPy.
• NumPy – A fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.
• Open Babel – A chemical toolbox designed to speak the many languages of chemical data.
• Open Mining – Business Intelligence (BI) in Python (Pandas web interface)
• orange – Data mining, data visualization, analysis and machine learning through visual programming or Python scripting.
• Pandas – A library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools.
• PyDy – Short for Python Dynamics, used to assist with workflow in the modeling of dynamic motion based around NumPy, SciPy, IPython, and matplotlib.
• PyMC – Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit.
• 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.

Data Visualization

Libraries for visualizing data. See: awesome-javascript.

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

Computer Vision

Libraries for computer vision.

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

Machine Learning

Libraries for Machine Learning. See: awesome-machine-learning.

• Crab – A flexible, fast recommender engine.
• gensim – Topic Modelling for Humans.
• hebel – GPU-Accelerated Deep Learning Library in Python.
• NuPIC – Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing.
• pattern – Web mining module for Python.
• PyBrain – Another Python Machine Learning Library.
• Pylearn2 – A Machine Learning library based on Theano.
• python-recsys – A Python library for implementing a Recommender System.
• scikit-learn – A Python module for machine learning built on top of SciPy.
• pydeep – Deep learning in python
• vowpal_porpoise – A lightweight Python wrapper for Vowpal Wabbit.
• skflow – A simplified interface for TensorFlow (mimicking scikit-learn).

MapReduce

Frameworks and libraries for MapReduce.

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

Functional Programming

Functional Programming with Python.

• CyToolz – Cython implementation of Toolz: High performance functional utilities.
• 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.

Third-party APIs

Libraries for accessing third party services APIs. See: List of Python API Wrappers and Libraries.

• apache-libcloud – One Python library for all clouds.
• boto – Python interface to Amazon Web Services.
• django-wordpress – WordPress models and views for Django.
• facebook-sdk – Facebook Platform Python SDK.
• facepy – Facepy makes it really easy to interact with Facebook’s Graph API
• gmail – A Pythonic interface for Gmail.
• google-api-python-client – Google APIs Client Library for Python.
• gspread – Google Spreadsheets Python API.
• twython – A Python wrapper for the Twitter API.

DevOps Tools

Software and libraries for DevOps.

• Ansible – A radically simple IT automation platform.
• SaltStack – Infrastructure automation and management system.
• OpenStack – Open source software for building private and public clouds.
• Docker Compose – Fast, isolated development environments using Docker.
• Cloud-Init – A multi-distribution package that handles early initialization of a cloud instance.
• cuisine – Chef-like functionality for Fabric.
• Fabric – A simple, Pythonic tool for remote execution and deployment.
• Fabtools – Tools for writing awesome Fabric files.
• honcho – A Python clone of Foreman, for managing Procfile-based applications.
• pexpect – Controlling interactive programs in a pseudo-terminal like GNU expect.
• psutil – A cross-platform process and system utilities module.
• supervisor – Supervisor process control system for UNIX.

ChatOps Tools

Libraries for chatbot development.

• Errbot – The easiest and most popular chatbot to implement ChatOps.

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 file in Python like a charm.
• schedule – Python job scheduling for humans.
• Spiff – A powerful workflow engine implemented in pure Python.
• TaskFlow – A Python library that helps to make task execution easy, consistent and reliable.

Foreign Function Interface

Libraries for providing foreign function interface.

• cffi – 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 – Simplified Wrapper and Interface Generator.

High Performance

Libraries for making Python faster.

• Cython – Optimizing Static Compiler for Python. Uses type mixins to compile Python into C or C++ modules resulting in large performance gains.
• PeachPy – x86-64 assembler embedded in Python. Can be used as inline assembler for Python or as a stand-alone assembler for Windows, Linux, OS X, Native Client and Go.
• 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.
• Pyston – A Python implementation built using LLVM and modern JIT techniques with the goal of achieving good performance.
• Stackless Python – An enhanced version of the Python.

Microsoft Windows

Python programming on Microsoft Windows.

• Python(x,y) – Scientific-applications-oriented Python Distribution based on Qt and Spyder.
• pythonlibs – Unofficial 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.

Network Virtualization and SDN

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

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

Hardware

Libraries for programming with hardware.

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

Compatibility

Libraries for migrating from Python 2 to 3.

• 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.

Miscellaneous

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

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

Algorithms and Design Patterns

Python implementation of algorithms and design patterns.

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

Editor Plugins

Plugins for editors and IDEs.

• Emacs
  • Elpy – Emacs Python Development Environment.
• Sublime Text
  • SublimeJEDI – A Sublime Text plugin to the awesome auto-complete library Jedi.
  • Anaconda – Anaconda turns your Sublime Text 3 in a full featured Python development IDE.
• Vim
  • YouCompleteMe – Includes Jedi-based completion engine for Python.
  • 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.
• Visual Studio
  • PTVS – Python Tools for Visual Studio.

IDEs

Popular Python IDEs.

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

Services

Online tools and APIs to simplify development.

Continuous Integration

See: awesome-CIandCD.

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

Code Quality

• Codecov – Code coverage dashboard.
• Codacy – Automated Code Review to ship better code, faster. Free for Open Source.
• Landscape – Hosted continuous Python code metrics.
• QuantifiedCode – A data-driven, automated, continuous code review tool.

Resources

Where to discover new Python libraries.

Websites

• r/Python
• CoolGithubProjects
• Django Packages
• Full Stack Python
• Python 3 Wall of Superpowers
• Python Hackers
• Python ZEEF
• Trending Python repositories on GitHub today
• PyPI Ranking

Weekly

• CodeTengu Weekly
• Import Python Newsletter
• Pycoder’s Weekly
• Python Weekly

Twitter

• @codetengu
• @getpy
• @importpython
• @planetpython
• @pycoders
• @pypi
• @pythontrending
• @PythonWeekly