Awesome Python

Awesome Python

A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries and software. Inspired by awesome-php.

• 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
  • Permissions
  • CMS
  • E-commerce
  • RESTful API
  • 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 and Threads
  • Concurrency and 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
  • Job Scheduler
  • Foreign Function Interface
  • High Performance
  • Network Virtualization and SDN
  • Hardware
  • Compatibility
  • Miscellaneous
  • Algorithms and Design Patterns
  • Editor Plugins
• Resources
  
  
  • Websites
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• Contributing

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Environment Management

Libraries for Python version and environment management.

• pyenv - Simple Python version management.
• virtualenv - A tool to create isolated Python environments.
• virtualenvwrapper - A set of extensions to virtualenv.
• virtualenv-api - An API for virtualenv and pip.
• pew - A set of tools to manage multiple virtual environments.
• Vex - Run a command in the named virtualenv.
• PyRun - A one-file, no-installation-needed version of Python.

Package Management

Libraries for package and dependency management.

• pip - The Python package and dependency manager.
  
  
  • Python Package Index
• 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
• devpi - PyPI server and packaging/testing/release tool.
• localshop - PyPI server which mirrors official packages on-demand, and also supports local (private) package uploads.

Distribution

Libraries to create packaged executables for release distribution.

• cx-Freeze - Freezes Python scripts (cross-platform).
• py2exe - Freezes Python scripts (Windows).
• pynsist - A tool to build Windows installers, installers bundle Python itself.
• py2app - Freezes Python scripts (Mac OS X).
• 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.

Build Tools

Compile software from source code.

• buildout - A build system for creating, assembling and deploying applications from multiple parts, some of which may be non-Python-based.
• SCons - A software construction tool.
• PlatformIO - A console tool to build code with different development platforms.
• BitBake - A make-like build tool with the special focus of distributions and packages for embedded Linux.
• fabricate - A build tool that finds dependencies automatically for any language.

Interactive Interpreter

Interactive Python interpreters.

• IPython - A rich toolkit to help you make the most out of using Python interactively.
• bpython – A fancy interface to the Python interpreter.
• python-prompt-toolkit - A Library for building powerful interactive command lines.

Files

Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.

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

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.
• when.py - Providing user-friendly functions to help perform common date and time actions.
• moment - A Python library for dealing with dates/times. Inspired by Moment.js.
• pytz - World timezone definitions, modern and historical. Brings the tz database into Python.

Text Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating plain texts.

• General
  
  
  • difflib - (Python standard library) Helpers for computing deltas.
  • Levenshtein - Fast computation of Levenshtein distance and string similarity.
  • fuzzywuzzy - Fuzzy String Matching.
  • esmre - Regular expression accelerator.
  • shortuuid - A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs.
  • ftfy - Makes Unicode text less broken and more consistent automagically.
  • unidecode - ASCII transliterations of Unicode text.
  • chardet - Python 2/3 compatible character encoding detector.
  • xpinyin - A library to translate Chinese hanzi (漢字) to pinyin (拼音).
  • pangu.py - Spacing texts for CJK and alphanumerics.
  • pyfiglet - An implementation of figlet written in Python.
  • uniout - Print readable chars instead of the escaped string.
• 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
  
  
  • PLY - Implementation of lex and yacc parsing tools for Python
  • phonenumbers - Parsing, formatting, storing and validating international phone numbers.
  • python-user-agents - Browser user agent parser.
  • sqlparse - A non-validating SQL parser.
  • Pygments - A generic syntax highlighter.
  • python-nameparser - Parsing human names into their individual components.
  • pyparsing - A general purpose framework for generating parsers.

Specific Formats Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating specific text formats.

• General
  
  
  • tablib - A module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML.
• Office
  
  
  • python-docx - Reads, queries and modifies Microsoft Word 2007/2008 docx files.
  • xlwt / xlrd - Writing and reading data and formatting information from Excel files.
  • 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.
  • Marmir - Takes Python data structures and turns them into spreadsheets.
• PDF
  
  
  • PDFMiner - A tool for extracting information from PDF documents.
  • PyPDF2 - A library capable of splitting, merging and transforming PDF pages.
• Markdown
  
  
  • Python-Markdown - A Python implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown.
  • Mistune - Fastest and full featured pure Python parsers of 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. It has tools for natural language processing, machine learning, among others.
• TextBlob - Providing a consistent API for diving into common NLP tasks. Stands on the giant shoulders of NLTK and Pattern.
• jieba - Chinese Words Segmentation Utilities.
• SnowNLP - A library for processing Chinese text.
• loso - Another Chinese segmentation library.
• genius - A Chinese segment base on Conditional Random Field.

Documentation

Libraries for generating project documentation.

• Sphinx - Python Documentation generator.
  
  
  • awesome-sphinxdoc
• reStructuredText - Markup Syntax and Parser Component of Docutils.
• MkDocs - Markdown friendly documentation generator.
• Pycco - The original quick-and-dirty, hundred-line-long, literate-programming-style documentation generator.
• pdoc - Epydoc replacement to auto generate API documentation for Python libraries.

Configuration

Libraries for storing configuration options.

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

Command-line Tools

Libraries for building command-line application.

• Command-line Application Development
  
  
  • cement - Cement provides a light-weight and fully featured foundation to build anything from single file scripts to complex and intricately designed applications.
  • click - A package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way.
  • clint - Python Command-line Application Tools.
  • cliff - A framework for creating command-line programs with multi-level commands.
  • Clime – Clime lets you convert any module into a multi-command CLI program without any configuration.
  • docopt - Pythonic command line arguments parser.
  • colorama - Cross-platform colored terminal text.
  • pyCLI - Command-line applications supporting standard command line parsing, logging, unit and functional testing.
  • Gooey - Turn command line programs into a full GUI application with one line
• Productivity Tools
  
  
  • cookiecutter - A command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates). E.g. Python package projects, jQuery plugin projects.
  • httpie - A command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement.
  • percol - Adds flavor of interactive selection to the traditional pipe concept on UNIX.
  • RainbowStream - Smart and nice Twitter client on terminal.
  • caniusepython3 - Determine what projects are blocking you from porting to Python 3.

Downloader

Libraries for downloading.

• s3cmd - A command line tool for managing Amazon S3 and CloudFront.
• youtube-dl - A small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.
• you-get - A YouTube/Youku/Niconico video downloader written in Python 3.
• coursera - Script for downloading Coursera.org videos and naming them.
• WikiTeam - Tools for downloading and preserving wikis.
• subliminal - Library and command line tool to search and download subtitles.

Imagery

Libraries for manipulating images.

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

OCR

Libraries for Optical Character Recognition.

• [python-tesseract] (https://code.google.com/p/python-tesseract) - A wrapper class for Google Tesseract OCR.
• pytesseract - Another wrapper for Google Tesseract OCR.
• pyocr - A wrapper for Tesseract and Cuneiform.

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.
• 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.
• m3u8 - A module for parsing m3u8 file.

Video

Libraries for manipulating video and GIFs.

• moviepy - A module for script-based movie editing with many formats, including animated GIFs.
• shorten.tv - Video summarization.
• scikit-video - Video processing routines for SciPy.

Geolocation

Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

• GeoDjango - A world-class geographic web framework.
• geopy - Python Geocoding Toolbox.
• pygeoip - Pure Python GeoIP API.
• GeoIP - Python API for MaxMind GeoIP Legacy Database.
• geojson - Python bindings and utlities for GeoJSON.
• 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.
• urllib3 - A HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post support, sanity friendly.
• httplib2 - Comprehensive HTTP client library.
• treq - Python requests like API built on top of Twisted's HTTP client.

Database

Databases implemented in Python.

• ZODB - A native object database for Python. A key-value and object graph database.
• pickleDB - A simple and lightweight key-value store for Python.
• TinyDB - A tiny, document-oriented database.

Database Drivers

Libraries for connecting and operating databases.

• Relational Databases
  
  
  • mysql-python - The MySQL database connector for Python.
  • mysqlclient - mysql-python fork supporting Python 3.
  • PyMySQL - Pure Python MySQL driver compatible to mysql-python.
  • mysql-connector-python - A pure Python MySQL driver from Oracle.
  • oursql - A better MySQL connector with support for native prepared statements and BLOBs.
  • psycopg2 - The most popular PostgreSQL adapter for Python.
  • txpostgres - Twisted based asynchronous driver for PostgreSQL.
  • queries - A wrapper of the psycopg2 library for interacting with PostgreSQL.
  • dataset - Store Python dicts in a database - works with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
• NoSQL Databases
  
  
  • cassandra-python-driver - Python driver for Cassandra.
  • pycassa - Python Thrift driver for Cassandra.
  • HappyBase - A developer-friendly library for Apache HBase.
  • PyMongo - The official Python client for MongoDB.
  • Plyvel - A fast and feature-rich Python interface to LevelDB.
  • redis-py - The Redis Python Client.
  • py2neo - Python wrapper client for Neo4j's restful interface.
  • telephus - Twisted based client for Cassandra.
  • txRedis - Twisted based client for Redis.

ORM

Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or datamapping techniques.

• Relational Databases
  
  
  • Django Models - A part of Django.
  • SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper.
    
    
    • awesome-sqlalchemy
  • peewee - A small, expressive ORM.
  • PonyORM - ORM that provides a generator-oriented interface to SQL.
• NoSQL Databases
  
  
  • MongoEngine - A Python Object-Document-Mapper for working with MongoDB.
  • django-mongodb-engine - Django MongoDB Backend.
  • redisco - A Python Library for Simple Models and Containers Persisted in Redis.
  • flywheel - Object mapper for Amazon DynamoDB.
• 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
• Bottle - A fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework.
• Pyramid - A small, fast, down-to-earth, open source Python web framework.
• web2py - A full stack web framework and platform focused in the ease of use.
• web.py - A web framework for Python that is as simple as it is powerful.
• TurboGears - The Web Framework that starts as a microframework and scales up to a fullstack solution.
• CherryPy - A Minimalist Python Web Framework, HTTP/1.1-compliant and WSGI thread-pooled.
• Grok - A framework built on the existing Zope 3 libraries.
• Bluebream - An open-source web application server, framework and library, formerly known as Zope 3.
• guava - A lightweight and high performance web framework for Python written in C.

Permissions

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

• django-guardian - Implementation of per object permissions for Django 1.2+
• Carteblanche - Module to align code with thoughts of users and designers. Also magically handles navigation and permissions.

CMS

Content Management Systems.

• 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.
• Kotte - 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.
• 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.

• cornice - A REST framework for Pyramid.
• django-rest-framework - A powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs.
• django-tastypie - Creating delicious APIs for Django apps.
• django-formapi - Create JSON APIs with HMAC authentication and Django form-validation.
• flask-api - An implementation of the same web browsable APIs that django-rest-framework provides.
• flask-restful - An extension for Flask that adds support for quickly building REST APIs.
• flask-restless - A Flask extension for generating ReSTful APIs for database models defined with SQLAlchemy (or Flask-SQLAlchemy).
• flask-api-utils - Flask extension that takes care of API representation and authentication.
• falcon - A high-performance Python framework for building cloud APIs and web app backends.
• eve - REST API framework powered by Flask, MongoDB and good intentions.
• sandman - Automated REST APIs for existing database-driven systems.
• restless - Framework agnostic REST framework based on lessons learned from TastyPie.
• savory-pie - REST API building library (django, and others)

Authentication

Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.

• OAuth
  
  
  • Authomatic - Simple but powerful framework agnostic authentication/authorization client package.
  • OAuthLib - A generic, spec-compliant, thorough implementation of the OAuth request-signing logic.
  • rauth - A Python library for OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0, and Ofly.
  • python-oauth2 - A fully tested, abstract interface to creating OAuth clients and servers.
  • python-social-auth - An easy-to-setup social authentication mechanism.
  • django-oauth-toolkit - OAuth2 goodies for the Djangonauts.
  • django-oauth2-provider - Providing OAuth2 access to Django app.
  • django-allauth - Authentication app for Django that "just works."
  • Flask-OAuthlib - OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0 implementation of client and provider for Flask.
  • sanction - A dead simple OAuth2 client implementation.
• Others
  
  
  • PyJWT - Implementation of the JSON Web Token draft 01.
  • python-jwt - Module for generating and verifying JSON Web Tokens.
  • python-jws - Implementation of JSON Web Signatures draft 02.
  • jose - JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption draft implementation.

Template Engine

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.

• Jinja2 - A modern and designer friendly templating language.
• Genshi - Python templating toolkit for generation of web-aware output.
• Mako - Hyperfast and lightweight templating for the Python platform.
• Chameleon - An HTML/XML template engine. Modeled after ZPT, optimized for speed.
• Spitfire - A very fast Python template compiler.

Queue

Libraries for working with event and task queues.

• celery - An asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.
• huey - Little multi-threaded task queue.
• mrq - Mr. Queue - A distributed worker task queue in Python using Redis & gevent.
• rq - Simple job queues for Python.
• simpleq - A simple, infinitely scalable, Amazon SQS based queue.

Search

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

• django-haystack - Modular search for Django.
• elasticsearch-py - The official low-level Python client for Elasticsearch.
• solrpy - A Python client for solr.
• Whoosh - A fast, pure Python search engine library.

News Feed

Libraries for building user's activities.

• Feedly - A library to build newsfeed and notification systems using Cassandra and Redis.
• django-activity-stream - Generate generic activity streams from the actions on your site.

Asset Management

Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.

• django-compressor - Compresses linked and inline javascript or CSS into a single cached file.
• jinja-assets-compressor - A Jinja extension to compile and compress your assets.
• webassets - Bundles, optimizes, and manages unique cache-busting URLs for static resources.
• fanstatic - Packages, optimizes, and serves static file dependencies as Python packages.
• fileconveyor - Monitors changes, processes, and transports assets to CDNs and file storage systems.
• django-storages - A collection of custom storage backends for Django.
• glue - Glue is a simple command line tool to generate CSS sprites.
• libsass-python - A Python binding of libsass, the reference implementation of SASS/SCSS.
• Flask-Assets - Helps you integrate webassets into your Flask app.