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Awesome Python

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

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• Awesome Python
  • Environment Management
  • Package Management
  • Package Repositories
  • Distribution
  • Build Tools
  • Interactive Interpreter
  • Files
  • Date and Time
  • Text Processing
  • Specific Formats Processing
  • Natural Language Processing
  • Documentation
  • Configuration
  • Command-line Tools
  • Downloader
  • Imagery
  • OCR
  • Audio
  • Video
  • Geolocation
  • HTTP
  • Database
  • Database Drivers
  • ORM
  • Web Frameworks
  • Serverless Frameworks
  • Permissions
  • CMS
  • E-commerce
  • RESTful API
  • Serialization
  • Authentication
  • Template Engine
  • Queue
  • Search
  • News Feed
  • Asset Management
  • Caching
  • Email
  • Internationalization
  • URL Manipulation
  • HTML Manipulation
  • Web Crawling
  • Web Content Extracting
  • Forms
  • Data Validation
  • Anti-spam
  • Tagging
  • Admin Panels
  • Static Site Generator
  • Processes
  • Concurrency and Parallelism
  • Networking
  • WebSocket
  • WSGI Servers
  • RPC Servers
  • Cryptography
  • GUI
  • Game Development
  • Logging
  • Testing
  • Code Analysis and Linter
  • Debugging Tools
  • Science and Data Analysis
  • Data Visualization
  • Computer Vision
  • Machine Learning
  • Functional Programming
  • MapReduce
  • Third-party APIs
  • DevOps Tools
  • ChatOps Tools
  • Job Scheduler
  • Foreign Function Interface
  • High Performance
  • Network Virtualization and SDN
  • Hardware
  • Compatibility
  • Miscellaneous
  • Algorithms and Design Patterns
  • Editor Plugins
  • IDEs
• Services
  • Continuous Integration
  • Code Quality
• Resources
  • Websites
  • Weekly
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  • Podcasts
• Other Awesome Lists
• Contributing

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Environment Management

Libraries for Python version and environment management.

• p - ⭐ 578 🍴 25 - Dead simple interactive Python version management.
• pyenv - ⭐ 5040 🍴 406 - 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 - ⭐ 1691 🍴 160 - A set of tools to keep your pinned Python dependencies fresh.
• conda - ⭐ 836 🍴 284 - 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 - ⭐ 675 🍴 146 - 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 - ⭐ 279 🍴 99 - Local PyPI server (custom packages and auto-mirroring of pypi).

Distribution

Libraries to create packaged executables for release distribution.

• PyInstaller - ⭐ 1966 🍴 465 - Converts Python programs into stand-alone executables (cross-platform).
• dh-virtualenv - ⭐ 857 🍴 90 - 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 - ⭐ 1167 🍴 178 - A console tool to build code with different development platforms.
• PyBuilder - ⭐ 684 🍴 146 - 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 - ⭐ 588 🍴 76 – A fancy interface to the Python interpreter.
• ptpython - Advanced Python REPL built on top of the python-prompt-toolkit - ⭐ 2917 🍴 154.

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 - ⭐ 678 🍴 104 - A Python interface to the libmagic file type identification library.
• Unipath - ⭐ 373 🍴 31 - An object-oriented approach to file/directory operations.
• watchdog - ⭐ 2138 🍴 278 - API and shell utilities to monitor file system events.

Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

• arrow - ⭐ 3196 🍴 275 - Better dates & times for Python.
• Chronyk - ⭐ 221 🍴 8 - A Python 3 library for parsing human-written times and dates.
• dateutil - Extensions to the standard Python 🌎 datetime module.
• delorean - ⭐ 1208 🍴 62 - 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 - ⭐ 97 🍴 12 - 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 - ⭐ 148 🍴 13 - Providing user-friendly functions to help perform common date and time actions.

Text Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating plain texts.

• General
  • chardet - ⭐ 561 🍴 81 - Python 2/3 compatible character encoding detector.
  • 🌎 difflib - (Python standard library) Helpers for computing deltas.
  • ftfy - ⭐ 1399 🍴 52 - Makes Unicode text less broken and more consistent automagically.
  • fuzzywuzzy - ⭐ 2581 🍴 265 - Fuzzy String Matching.
  • Levenshtein - ⭐ 227 🍴 42 - Fast computation of Levenshtein distance and string similarity.
  • pangu.py - ⭐ 42 🍴 7 - Spacing texts for CJK and alphanumerics.
  • pyfiglet - ⭐ 158 🍴 19 - An implementation of figlet written in Python.
  • shortuuid - ⭐ 605 🍴 49 - A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs.
  • 🌎 unidecode - ASCII transliterations of Unicode text.
  • uniout - ⭐ 100 🍴 10 - Print readable chars instead of the escaped string.
  • xpinyin - ⭐ 352 🍴 99 - A library to translate Chinese hanzi (漢字) to pinyin (拼音).
• Slugify
  • awesome-slugify - ⭐ 292 🍴 18 - A Python slugify library that can preserve unicode.
  • python-slugify - ⭐ 276 🍴 33 - A Python slugify library that translates unicode to ASCII.
  • unicode-slugify - ⭐ 208 🍴 38 - A slugifier that generates unicode slugs with Django as a dependency.
• Parser
  • phonenumbers - ⭐ 1265 🍴 166 - 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 - ⭐ 156 🍴 26 - Parsing human names into their individual components.
  • python-user-agents - ⭐ 379 🍴 84 - Browser user agent parser.
  • sqlparse - ⭐ 695 🍴 172 - A non-validating SQL parser.

Specific Formats Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating specific text formats.

• General
  • tablib - ⭐ 2018 🍴 283 - A module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML.
• Office
  • Marmir - ⭐ 121 🍴 17 - Takes Python data structures and turns them into spreadsheets.
  • 🌎 openpyxl - A library for reading and writing Excel 2010 xlsx/xlsm/xltx/xltm files.
  • pyexcel - ⭐ 99 🍴 29 - Providing one API for reading, manipulating and writing csv, ods, xls, xlsx and xlsm files.
  • python-docx - ⭐ 572 🍴 226 - Reads, queries and modifies Microsoft Word 2007/2008 docx files.
  • 🌎 relatorio - Templating OpenDocument files.
  • unoconv - ⭐ 762 🍴 224 - 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 - ⭐ 788 🍴 185 - Writing and reading data and formatting information from Excel files.
• PDF
  • PDFMiner - ⭐ 1629 🍴 433 - A tool for extracting information from PDF documents.
  • PyPDF2 - ⭐ 1032 🍴 330 - A library capable of splitting, merging and transforming PDF pages.
  • 🌎 ReportLab - Allowing Rapid creation of rich PDF documents.
• Markdown
  • Mistune - ⭐ 702 🍴 64 - Fastest and full featured pure Python parsers of Markdown.
  • Python-Markdown - ⭐ 903 🍴 256 - A Python implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown.
• YAML
  • 🌎 PyYAML - YAML implementations for Python.
• CSV
  • csvkit - ⭐ 2247 🍴 328 - Utilities for converting to and working with CSV.
• Archive
  • unp - ⭐ 224 🍴 11 - 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 - ⭐ 5763 🍴 1828 - Chinese text segmentation.
• SnowNLP - ⭐ 1436 🍴 420 - A library for processing Chinese text.
• 🌎 spaCy - A library for industrial-strength natural language processing in Python and Cython.
• TextBlob - ⭐ 3165 🍴 378 - Providing a consistent API for diving into common NLP tasks.
• TextGrocery - ⭐ 284 🍴 89 - A simple, efficient short-text classification tool based on LibLinear and Jieba.
• langid.py - ⭐ 611 🍴 112 - Stand-alone language identification system.

Documentation

Libraries for generating project documentation.

• 🌎 Sphinx - Python Documentation generator.
  • awesome-sphinxdoc
• 🌎 MkDocs - Markdown friendly documentation generator.
• pdoc - ⭐ 235 🍴 38 - Epydoc replacement to auto generate API documentation for Python libraries.
• Pycco - ⭐ 506 🍴 114 - 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 - ⭐ 263 🍴 22 - Strict separation of settings from code.

Command-line Tools

Libraries for building command-line application.

• Command-line Application Development
  • asciimatics - ⭐ 320 🍴 15 - 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 - ⭐ 2054 🍴 188 - Python Command-line Application Tools.
  • 🌎 colorama - Cross-platform colored terminal text.
  • 🌎 docopt - Pythonic command line arguments parser.
  • Gooey - ⭐ 4169 🍴 212 - Turn command line programs into a full GUI application with one line
  • python-prompt-toolkit - ⭐ 2917 🍴 154 - 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.
• 🌎 xmldataset - Simple XML Parsing.
• 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
• /r/CoolGithubProjects
• Django Packages
• Full Stack Python
• Python 3 Wall of Superpowers
• Python Hackers
• Python ZEEF
• Trending Python repositories on GitHub today
• PyPI Ranking
• Awesome Python @LibHunt

Weekly

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

Twitter

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

Podcasts

• Podcast.init
• Talk Python To Me

Other Awesome Lists

List of lists.

• Python
  • pycrumbs
  • python-github-projects
  • python_reference
  • pythonidae
• Monty
  • awesome
  • lists

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