Best-of Python
This curated list contains 300 awesome open-source projects with a total of 980K stars grouped into 26 categories. All projects are ranked by a project-quality score, which is calculated based on various metrics automatically collected from GitHub and different package managers. If you like to add or update projects, feel free to open an issue, submit a pull request, or directly edit the projects.yaml. Contributions are very welcome!
Contents
- Data Serialization 15 projects
- Data Structures 14 projects
- Data Validation 13 projects
- Algorithms & Design Patterns 4 projects
- Date & Time Utilities 9 projects
- File & Path Utilities 9 projects
- Compatiblity 7 projects
- Cryptography 7 projects
- Infrastructure & DevOps 18 projects
- Process Utilities 4 projects
- Asynchronous Programming 6 projects
- Configuration 8 projects
- CLI Development 19 projects
- Development Tools 1 projects
- Data Caching 6 projects
- GUI Development 10 projects
- Computer & Machine Vision 1 projects
- Machine Learning & Data Engineering 1 projects
- Text Data 11 projects
- Web Development 1 projects
- Database Clients 61 projects
- Data Loading & Extraction 27 projects
- File Formats 3 projects
- Code Inspection 4 projects
- General Utilities 15 projects
- Python Implementations 6 projects
- Others 19 projects
Explanation
🥇 🥈 🥉 Combined project-quality score⭐️ Star count from GitHub🐣 New project (less than 6 months old)💤 Inactive project (6 months no activity)💀 Dead project (12 months no activity)📈 📉 Project is trending up or down➕ Project was recently added❗️ Warning (e.g. missing/risky license)👨💻 Contributors count from GitHub🔀 Fork count from GitHub📋 Issue count from GitHub⏱️ Last update timestamp on package manager📥 Download count from package manager📦 Number of dependent projects
Data Serialization
flatbuffers (🥇 34 · ⭐ 17K) - FlatBuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library. Apache-2
simplejson (🥇 34 · ⭐ 1.4K) - simplejson is a simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder/decoder for.. MIT
marshmallow (🥈 32 · ⭐ 5.8K) - A lightweight library for converting complex objects to and from.. MIT
msgpack (🥈 31 · ⭐ 1.5K) - MessagePack serializer implementation for Python msgpack.org[Python]. Apache-2
cloudpickle (🥈 31 · ⭐ 1.1K) - Extended pickling support for Python objects. BSD-3
ultrajson (🥉 30 · ⭐ 3.5K) - Ultra fast JSON decoder and encoder written in C with Python bindings. BSD-3
orjson (🥉 29 · ⭐ 2.5K) - Fast, correct Python JSON library supporting dataclasses, datetimes,.. Apache-2
python-rapidjson (🥉 26 · ⭐ 430) - Python wrapper around rapidjson. MIT
jsonpickle (🥉 25 · ⭐ 980) - Python library for serializing any arbitrary object graph into JSON... BSD-3
pysimdjson (🥉 24 · ⭐ 500) - Python bindings for the simdjson project. MIT
Data Structures
pyrsistent (🥇 34 · ⭐ 1.6K) - Persistent/Immutable/Functional data structures for Python. MIT
python-sortedcontainers (🥈 29 · ⭐ 2.4K) - Python Sorted Container Types: Sorted List, Sorted.. Apache-2
sqlitedict (🥈 26 · ⭐ 720) - Persistent dict, backed by sqlite3 and pickle, multithread-safe. Apache-2
munch (🥈 26 · ⭐ 530 · 💤 ) - A Munch is a Python dictionary that provides attribute-style access (a.. MIT
python-box (🥉 25 · ⭐ 1.8K) - Python dictionaries with advanced dot notation access. MIT
immutables (🥉 25 · ⭐ 890) - A high-performance immutable mapping type for Python. Apache-2
ordered-set (🥉 25 · ⭐ 140) - A mutable set that remembers the order of its entries. One of.. MIT
python-benedict (🥉 23 · ⭐ 300) - dict subclass with keylist/keypath support, normalized I/O.. MIT
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- anytree (
🥉 24 ·⭐ 620 ·💀 ) - Python tree data library.Apache-2 - cleverdict (
🥉 15 ·⭐ 83 ·💤 ) - A JSON-friendly data structure which allows both object attributes..MIT
Data Validation
jsonschema (🥇 33 · ⭐ 3.4K) - An implementation of the JSON Schema specification for Python. MIT
voluptuous (🥈 31 · ⭐ 1.7K) - CONTRIBUTIONS ONLY: Voluptuous, despite the name, is a Python data.. BSD-3
schematics (🥉 29 · ⭐ 2.5K) - Python Data Structures for Humans. BSD-3
validators (🥉 29 · ⭐ 540) - Python Data Validation for Humans. MIT
strictyaml (🥉 25 · ⭐ 950) - Type-safe YAML parser and validator. MIT
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- python-email-validator (
🥉 23 ·⭐ 490) - A robust email syntax and deliverability validation..❗️CC0-1.0 - valideer (
🥉 20 ·⭐ 250 ·💀 ) - Lightweight data validation and adaptation Python library.MIT
Algorithms & Design Patterns
transitions (🥇 29 · ⭐ 4K) - A lightweight, object-oriented finite state machine implementation in.. MIT
algorithms (🥉 27 · ⭐ 20K) - Minimal examples of data structures and algorithms in Python. MIT
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Date & Time Utilities
python-dateutil (🥇 37 · ⭐ 1.7K · 📉 ) - Useful extensions to the standard Python datetime.. Apache-2
dateparser (🥈 33 · ⭐ 1.9K) - python parser for human readable dates. BSD-3
parsedatetime (🥉 27 · ⭐ 620) - Parse human-readable date/time strings. Apache-2
File & Path Utilities
appdirs (🥈 31 · ⭐ 810 · 💤 ) - A small Python module for determining appropriate platform-specific.. MIT
pyfilesystem2 (🥈 29 · ⭐ 1.6K) - Python's Filesystem abstraction layer. MIT
scandir (🥈 29 · ⭐ 490) - Better directory iterator and faster os.walk(), now in the Python 3.5.. BSD-3
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Compatiblity
typing (🥈 30 · ⭐ 1.1K) - Python static typing home. Contains the source for.. Python-2.0
dataclasses (🥉 28 · ⭐ 520) - A backport of the dataclasses module for Python 3.6. Apache-2
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- futures (
🥉 29 ·⭐ 220 ·💀 ) - Backport of the concurrent.futures package to Python 2.6 and 2.7.Python-2.0 - pathlib2 (
🥉 28 ·⭐ 65) - Backport of pathlib aiming to support the full stdlib Python API. As of..MIT - contextlib2 (
🥉 27 ·⭐ 33) - contextlib2 is a backport of the standard library's contextlib..❗️psfrag
Cryptography
cryptography (🥇 34 · ⭐ 4.4K) - cryptography is a package designed to expose cryptographic.. BSD-3
pycryptodomex (🥇 34 · ⭐ 1.8K) - A self-contained cryptographic library for Python. BSD-3
asn1crypto (🥈 32 · ⭐ 240) - Python ASN.1 library with a focus on performance and a pythonic API. MIT
Infrastructure & DevOps
docker-compose (🥈 36 · ⭐ 24K) - Define and run multi-container applications with Docker. Apache-2
ansible (🥈 35 · ⭐ 51K) - Ansible is a radically simple IT automation platform that makes your.. ❗️GPL-3.0
paramiko (🥈 32 · ⭐ 7.3K) - The leading native Python SSHv2 protocol library. ❗️LGPL-2.1
kubernetes (🥈 32 · ⭐ 4.3K) - Official Python client library for kubernetes. Apache-2
pyinfra (🥉 22 · ⭐ 1.4K) - pyinfra automates infrastructure super fast at massive scale. It can be.. MIT
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- storm (
🥉 25 ·⭐ 3.9K ·💀 ) - Manage your SSH like a boss.MIT - fabtools (
🥉 24 ·⭐ 1.2K ·💀 ) - Tools for writing awesome Fabric files.BSD-2 - parallel-ssh (
🥉 23 ·⭐ 950) - Asynchronous parallel SSH client library.❗️LGPL-2.1 - wssh (
🥉 14 ·⭐ 1.3K ·💀 ) - SSH to WebSockets Bridge.MIT
Process Utilities
pexpect (🥇 34 · ⭐ 2.1K · 💤 ) - A Python module for controlling interactive programs in a pseudo-.. ISC
supervisor (🥈 32 · ⭐ 7.1K) - Supervisor process control system for UNIX. ❗️Repoze Public License
ptyprocess (🥉 28 · ⭐ 150 · 📉 ) - Run a subprocess in a pseudo terminal. ISC
Asynchronous Programming
anyio (🥈 26 · ⭐ 690) - High level asynchronous concurrency and networking framework that works on.. MIT
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Configuration
python-dotenv (🥇 34 · ⭐ 4.5K) - Get and set values in your .env file in local and production.. BSD-3
python-decouple (🥈 30 · ⭐ 2K) - Strict separation of config from code. MIT
omegaconf (🥉 28 · ⭐ 930) - Flexible Python configuration system. The last one you will ever need. BSD-3
gin-config (🥉 27 · ⭐ 1.4K) - Gin provides a lightweight configuration framework for Python. Apache-2
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CLI Development
rich (🥈 33 · ⭐ 31K) - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. MIT
python-prompt-toolkit (🥈 33 · ⭐ 7.4K) - Library for building powerful interactive command.. BSD-3
python-fire (🥈 32 · ⭐ 20K) - Python Fire is a library for automatically generating command.. Apache-2
wcwidth (🥈 30 · ⭐ 250) - Python library that measures the width of unicode strings rendered to a.. MIT
ConfigArgParse (🥉 29 · ⭐ 550) - A drop-in replacement for argparse that allows options to also be.. MIT
argcomplete (🥉 27 · ⭐ 1K) - Python and tab completion, better together. Apache-2
asciimatics (🥉 26 · ⭐ 2.9K) - A cross platform package to do curses-like operations, plus.. Apache-2
questionary (🥉 26 · ⭐ 760) - Python library to build pretty command line user prompts Easy to use.. MIT
bashplotlib (🥉 21 · ⭐ 1.6K · 💤 ) - plotting in the terminal. MIT
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- docopt (
🥈 32 ·⭐ 7.5K ·💀 ) - Pythonic command line arguments parser, that will make you smile.MIT - clint (
🥉 28 ·⭐ 2.5K ·💀 ) - Python Command-line Application Tools.ISC - blessings (
🥉 28 ·⭐ 1.3K ·💀 ) - A thin, practical wrapper around terminal capabilities in Python.MIT - docopt-ng (
🥉 21 ·⭐ 59) - Humane command line arguments parser. Now with maintenance, typehints,..MIT - colout (
🥉 16 ·⭐ 1.1K ·💀 ) - Color text streams with a polished command line interface.❗️GPL-3.0
Development Tools
Data Caching
cachetools (🥇 31 · ⭐ 1.1K) - Extensible memoizing collections and decorators. MIT
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- cached-property (
🥈 30 ·⭐ 620 ·💀 ) - A decorator for caching properties in classes.BSD-3
GUI Development
kivy (🥇 34 · ⭐ 14K) - Open source UI framework written in Python, running on Windows, Linux, macOS,.. MIT
PySimpleGUI (🥈 31 · ⭐ 8.8K) - PySimpleGUI is a Python package that enables Python.. ❗️LGPL-3.0
DearPyGui (🥈 28 · ⭐ 6.5K · 📈 ) - Dear PyGui: A fast and powerful Graphical User Interface Toolkit.. MIT
Gooey (🥉 26 · ⭐ 15K) - Turn (almost) any Python command line program into a full GUI application.. MIT
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- Phoenix (
🥉 17 ·⭐ 1.7K) - wxPython's Project Phoenix. A new implementation of wxPython,..❗Unlicensed
Computer & Machine Vision
Machine Learning & Data Engineering
Text Data
chardet (🥇 32 · ⭐ 1.6K) - Python character encoding detector. ❗️LGPL-2.1
python-slugify (🥈 30 · ⭐ 1.1K) - Returns unicode slugs. MIT
phonenumbers (🥈 28 · ⭐ 2.9K) - Python port of Google's libphonenumber. Apache-2
pyahocorasick (🥉 26 · ⭐ 660) - Python module (C extension and plain python) implementing Aho-.. BSD-3
inflect (🥉 25 · ⭐ 590 · 💤 ) - Correctly generate plurals, ordinals, indefinite articles; convert.. MIT
price-parser (🥉 20 · ⭐ 210 · 💤 ) - Extract price amount and currency symbol from a raw text.. BSD-3
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Web Development
Database Clients
Libraries for connecting to, operating, and querying databases.
SQLAlchemy (🥇 38 · ⭐ 4.5K) - The Database Toolkit for Python. MIT
kafka-python (🥇 34 · ⭐ 4.7K) - Python client for Apache Kafka. Apache-2
MongoEngine (🥇 34 · ⭐ 3.6K) - A Python Object-Document-Mapper for working with MongoDB. MIT
s3transfer (🥈 33 · ⭐ 130) - Amazon S3 Transfer Manager for Python. Apache-2
google-cloud-storage (🥈 32 · ⭐ 3.7K) - Google Cloud Client Library for Python. Apache-2
elasticsearch (🥈 32 · ⭐ 3.5K) - Official Elasticsearch client library for Python. Apache-2
Prometheus Client (🥈 32 · ⭐ 2.5K) - Prometheus instrumentation library for Python.. Apache-2
Cassandra Driver (🥈 32 · ⭐ 1.3K) - DataStax Python Driver for Apache Cassandra. Apache-2
Elasticsearch DSL (🥈 31 · ⭐ 3.4K) - High level Python client for Elasticsearch. Apache-2
azure-storage-blob (🥈 31 · ⭐ 2.3K) - This repository is for active development of the Azure SDK.. MIT
SQLAlchemy-Utils (🥈 31 · ⭐ 840) - Various utility functions and datatypes for SQLAlchemy. BSD-3
python-bigquery (🥈 31 · ⭐ 320) - Google BigQuery API client library. Apache-2
confluent-kafka-python (🥈 30 · ⭐ 2.6K) - Confluent's Kafka Python Client. Apache-2
PyPika (🥈 30 · ⭐ 1.5K) - PyPika is a python SQL query builder that exposes the full richness.. Apache-2
dataset (🥉 29 · ⭐ 4.1K) - Easy-to-use data handling for SQL data stores with support for implicit.. MIT
mysqlclient (🥉 29 · ⭐ 2K) - MySQL database connector for Python (with Python 3 support). ❗️GPL-2.0
py2neo (🥉 29 · ⭐ 1K) - Py2neo is a comprehensive Neo4j driver library and toolkit for Python. Apache-2
libcloud (🥉 28 · ⭐ 1.8K) - Apache Libcloud is a Python library which hides differences between.. Apache-2
Ibis (🥉 28 · ⭐ 1.6K) - A pandas-like deferred expression system, with first-class SQL support. Apache-2
redis-py-cluster (🥉 28 · ⭐ 1K) - Python cluster client for the official redis cluster. Redis 3.0+. MIT
cx-Oracle (🥉 27 · ⭐ 780) - Python interface to Oracle Database conforming to the Python DB API.. BSD-3
pandas-gbq (🥉 27 · ⭐ 280) - Pandas Google BigQuery. BSD-3
tortoise-orm (🥉 25 · ⭐ 2.5K) - Familiar asyncio ORM for python, built with relations in mind. Apache-2
HappyBase (🥉 25 · ⭐ 580 · 💤 ) - A developer-friendly Python library to interact with Apache HBase. MIT
AWS Data Wrangler (🥉 24 · ⭐ 2.3K) - Pandas on AWS - Easy integration with Athena, Glue,.. Apache-2 pandas
neo4j-driver (🥉 24 · ⭐ 660) - Neo4j Bolt driver for Python. Apache-2
ODMantic (🥉 19 · ⭐ 430) - Async ODM (Object Document Mapper) for MongoDB based on python type hints. ISC
gsheets-db-api (🥉 19 · ⭐ 160 · 💤 ) - A Python DB-API and SQLAlchemy dialect to Google Spreasheets. MIT
psycopg3 (🥉 13 · ⭐ 520) - New generation PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python.. ❗️LGPL-3.0
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- psycopg2 (
🥇 35 ·⭐ 2.4K) - PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python..❗️BSD-3-Clause-Attribution - mongo-connector (
🥉 26 ·⭐ 1.8K ·💀 ) - MongoDB data stream pipeline tools by YouGov (adopted..Apache-2 - google-cloud-bigtable (
🥉 25 ·⭐ 21) - Google Cloud Bigtable API client library.Apache-2 - PyMODM (
🥉 22 ·⭐ 330 ·💀 ) - A Pythonic, object-oriented interface for working with MongoDB.Apache-2 - db.py (
🥉 21 ·⭐ 1.2K ·💀 ) - db.py is an easier way to interact with your databases.BSD-2 - lazydata (
🥉 17 ·⭐ 630 ·💀 ) - Lazydata: Scalable data dependencies for Python projects.Apache-2 - SuperSQLite (
🥉 16 ·⭐ 680 ·💀 ) - A supercharged SQLite library for Python.MIT
Data Loading & Extraction
Libraries for loading, collecting, and extracting data from a variety of data sources and formats.
Datasets (🥇 34 · ⭐ 11K) - The largest hub of ready-to-use datasets for ML models with fast,.. Apache-2
python-magic (🥇 32 · ⭐ 2K) - A python wrapper for libmagic. MIT
smart-open (🥈 30 · ⭐ 2.3K) - Utils for streaming large files (S3, HDFS, gzip, bz2...). MIT
xlwings (🥈 30 · ⭐ 2.2K · 📉 ) - xlwings is a BSD-licensed Python library that makes it easy to call.. BSD-3
csvkit (🥈 29 · ⭐ 4.8K) - A suite of utilities for converting to and working with CSV, the king of.. MIT
snorkel (🥈 27 · ⭐ 4.9K) - A system for quickly generating training data with weak supervision. Apache-2
pandas-datareader (🥈 27 · ⭐ 2.2K) - Extract data from a wide range of Internet sources into a.. BSD-3
gdown (🥉 26 · ⭐ 1.5K) - Download a large file from Google Drive (curl/wget fails because of the.. MIT
Intake (🥉 26 · ⭐ 660) - Intake is a lightweight package for finding, investigating, loading and.. BSD-2
Singer (🥉 24 · ⭐ 900 · 💤 ) - Standard for moving data between databases, web APIs, files,.. ❗️AGPL-3.0
tabulator-py (🥉 22 · ⭐ 220 · 💤 ) - Python library for reading and writing tabular data via streams. MIT
rows (🥉 21 · ⭐ 780) - A common, beautiful interface to tabular data, no matter the format. ❗️LGPL-3.0
csvs-to-sqlite (🥉 18 · ⭐ 660) - Convert CSV files into a SQLite database. Apache-2
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- xmltodict (
🥇 32 ·⭐ 4.6K ·💀 ) - Python module that makes working with XML feel like you are..MIT - PDFMiner (
🥈 27 ·⭐ 4.7K ·💀 ) - Python PDF Parser (Not actively maintained). Check out pdfminer.six.MIT - messytables (
🥉 23 ·⭐ 380 ·💀 ) - Tools for parsing messy tabular data. This is now superseded by..MIT - openpyxl (
🥉 23 ·⭐ 30) - A Python library to read/write Excel 2010 xlsx/xlsm files.MIT - pyexcel-xlsx (
🥉 22 ·⭐ 94 ·💤 ) - A wrapper library to read, manipulate and write data in xlsx..BSD-3 - excalibur (
🥉 18 ·⭐ 1K ·💀 ) - A web interface to extract tabular data from PDFs.MIT
File Formats
XlsxWriter (🥉 34 · ⭐ 2.7K) - A Python module for creating Excel XLSX files. BSD-2
Code Inspection
typing_inspect (🥈 24 · ⭐ 230) - Runtime inspection utilities for Python typing module. MIT
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- entrypoints (
🥈 24 ·⭐ 67 ·💀 ) - Discover and load entry points from installed packages.MIT - importlib-resources (
🥉 20 ·⭐ 20) - Read resources from Python packages.Apache-2
General Utilities
more-itertools (🥇 35 · ⭐ 2.2K) - More routines for operating on iterables, beyond itertools. MIT
python-dependency-injector (🥈 29 · ⭐ 1.7K) - Dependency injection framework for Python. BSD-3
ubelt (🥉 22 · ⭐ 580) - A Python utility belt containing simple tools, a stdlib like feel, and.. Apache-2
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- retrying (
🥉 26 ·⭐ 1.7K ·💀 ) - Retrying is an Apache 2.0 licensed general-purpose retrying..Apache-2 - ratelimit (
🥉 24 ·⭐ 440 ·💀 ) - API Rate Limit Decorator.MIT - pampy (
🥉 23 ·⭐ 3.4K ·💀 ) - Pampy: The Pattern Matching for Python you always dreamed of.MIT - CommonRegex (
🥉 21 ·⭐ 1.5K ·💀 ) - A collection of common regular expressions bundled with an easy..MIT
Python Implementations
pyston (🥈 23 · ⭐ 1.8K) - A faster and highly-compatible implementation of the Python.. Apache-2
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- micropython (
🥈 23 ·⭐ 13K) - MicroPython - a lean and efficient Python implementation for..❗Unlicensed - grumpy (
🥉 16 ·⭐ 10K ·💀 ) - Grumpy is a Python to Go source code transcompiler and runtime.Apache-2 - stackless (
🥉 11 ·⭐ 770) - The Stackless Python programming language.❗Unlicensed - cl-python (
🥉 11 ·⭐ 320 ·💀 ) - An implementation of Python in Common Lisp.❗Unlicensed
Others
cookiecutter (🥈 34 · ⭐ 16K) - A command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters.. BSD-3
py4j (🥈 30 · ⭐ 900) - Py4J enables Python programs to dynamically access arbitrary Java objects. BSD-3
Send2Trash (🥉 28 · ⭐ 180) - Python library to natively send files to Trash (or Recycle bin) on.. BSD-3
pyscaffold (🥉 27 · ⭐ 1.3K) - Python project template generator with batteries included. MIT
pyscreenshot (🥉 26 · ⭐ 420 · 💤 ) - Python screenshot library, replacement for the Pillow.. BSD-2
pluginbase (🥉 23 · ⭐ 980) - A simple but flexible plugin system for Python. BSD-3
python-mss (🥉 23 · ⭐ 660) - An ultra fast cross-platform multiple screenshots module in pure.. MIT
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- powerline-shell (
🥉 23 ·⭐ 5.7K ·💀 ) - A beautiful and useful prompt for your shell.MIT - macropy (
🥉 22 ·⭐ 3.1K ·💀 ) - Macros in Python: quasiquotes, case classes, LINQ and more!.MIT
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