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Awesome Python

An opinionated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries, tools, software and resources.

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Media

Python Language

Python Toolchain

Security

Miscellaneous

AI & ML

AI and Agents

Libraries for building AI applications, LLM integrations, and autonomous agents.

  • Frameworks
    • autogen - A programming framework for building agentic AI applications.
    • crewai - A framework for orchestrating role-playing autonomous AI agents for collaborative task solving.
    • dspy - A framework for programming, not prompting, language models.
    • instructor - A library for extracting structured data from LLMs, powered by Pydantic.
    • langchain - Building applications with LLMs through composability.
    • llama_index - A data framework for your LLM application.
    • pydantic-ai - A Python agent framework for building generative AI applications with structured schemas.
  • Pretrained Models and Inference
    • diffusers - A library that provides pretrained diffusion models for generating and editing images, audio, and video.
    • transformers - A framework that lets you easily use pretrained transformer models for NLP, vision, and audio tasks.
    • vllm - A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs.

Deep Learning

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

  • jax - a library for high-performance numerical computing with automatic differentiation and JIT compilation.
  • keras - A high-level deep learning library with support for JAX, TensorFlow, and PyTorch backends.
  • pytorch-lightning - Deep learning framework to train, deploy, and ship AI products Lightning fast.
  • pytorch - Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration.
  • stable-baselines3 - PyTorch implementations of Stable Baselines (deep) reinforcement learning algorithms.
  • tensorflow - The most popular Deep Learning framework created by Google.

Machine Learning

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

  • catboost - A fast, scalable, high performance gradient boosting on decision trees library.
  • feature_engine - sklearn compatible API with the widest toolset for feature engineering and selection.
  • h2o - Open Source Fast Scalable Machine Learning Platform.
  • lightgbm - A fast, distributed, high performance gradient boosting framework.
  • mindsdb - MindsDB is an open source AI layer for existing databases that allows you to effortlessly develop, train and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning models using standard queries.
  • pgmpy - A Python library for probabilistic graphical models and Bayesian networks.
  • scikit-learn - The most popular Python library for Machine Learning with extensive documentation and community support.
  • spark.ml - Apache Spark's scalable Machine Learning library for distributed computing.
  • xgboost - A scalable, portable, and distributed gradient boosting library.

Natural Language Processing

Libraries for working with human languages.

  • General
    • gensim - Topic Modeling for Humans.
    • nltk - A leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data.
    • spacy - A library for industrial-strength natural language processing in Python and Cython.
    • stanza - The Stanford NLP Group's official Python library, supporting 60+ languages.
  • Chinese
    • funnlp - A collection of tools and datasets for Chinese NLP.
    • jieba - The most popular Chinese text segmentation library.

Computer Vision

Libraries for Computer Vision.

Recommender Systems

Libraries for building recommender systems.

  • annoy - Approximate Nearest Neighbors in C++/Python optimized for memory usage.
  • implicit - A fast Python implementation of collaborative filtering for implicit datasets.
  • scikit-surprise - A scikit for building and analyzing recommender systems.

Web

Web Frameworks

Traditional full stack web frameworks. Also see Web APIs.

  • Synchronous
  • Asynchronous
    • litestar - Production-ready, capable and extensible ASGI Web framework.
    • microdot - The impossibly small web framework for Python and MicroPython.
    • reflex – A framework for building reactive, full-stack web applications entirely with python .
    • robyn - A high-performance async Python web framework with a Rust runtime.
    • starlette - A lightweight ASGI framework and toolkit for building high-performance async services.
    • tornado - A web framework and asynchronous networking library.

Web APIs

Libraries for building RESTful and GraphQL APIs.

  • Django
  • Flask
    • apiflask - A lightweight Python web API framework based on Flask and Marshmallow.
  • Framework Agnostic
    • connexion - A spec-first framework that automatically handles requests based on your OpenAPI specification.
    • falcon - A high-performance framework for building cloud APIs and web app backends.
    • fastapi - A modern, fast, web framework for building APIs with standard Python type hints.
    • sanic - A Python 3.6+ web server and web framework that's written to go fast.
    • strawberry - A GraphQL library that leverages Python type annotations for schema definition.
    • webargs - A friendly library for parsing HTTP request arguments with built-in support for popular web frameworks.

Web Servers

ASGI and WSGI compatible web servers.

  • ASGI
    • daphne - A HTTP, HTTP2 and WebSocket protocol server for ASGI and ASGI-HTTP.
    • granian - A Rust HTTP server for Python applications built on top of Hyper and Tokio, supporting WSGI/ASGI/RSGI.
    • hypercorn - An ASGI and WSGI Server based on Hyper libraries and inspired by Gunicorn.
    • uvicorn - A lightning-fast ASGI server implementation, using uvloop and httptools.
  • WSGI
    • gunicorn - Pre-forked, ported from Ruby's Unicorn project.
    • uwsgi - A project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services, written in C.
    • waitress - Multi-threaded, powers Pyramid.
  • RPC
    • grpcio - HTTP/2-based RPC framework with Python bindings, built by Google.
    • rpyc (Remote Python Call) - A transparent and symmetric RPC library for Python.

WebSocket

Libraries for working with WebSocket.

  • autobahn-python - WebSocket & WAMP for Python on Twisted and asyncio.
  • channels - Developer-friendly asynchrony for Django.
  • flask-socketio - Socket.IO integration for Flask applications.
  • websockets - A library for building WebSocket servers and clients with a focus on correctness and simplicity.

Template Engines

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.

  • jinja - A modern and designer friendly templating language.
  • mako - Hyperfast and lightweight templating for the Python platform.

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

Authentication

Libraries for implementing authentication schemes.

  • OAuth
    • authlib - JavaScript Object Signing and Encryption draft implementation.
    • django-allauth - Authentication app for Django that "just works."
    • django-oauth-toolkit - OAuth 2 goodies for Django.
    • oauthlib - A generic and thorough implementation of the OAuth request-signing logic.
  • JWT
    • pyjwt - JSON Web Token implementation in Python.
  • 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.

Admin Panels

Libraries for administrative interfaces.

  • ajenti - The admin panel your servers deserve.
  • django-grappelli - A jazzy skin for the Django Admin-Interface.
  • django-unfold - Elevate your Django admin with a stunning modern interface, powerful features, and seamless user experience.
  • flask-admin - Simple and extensible administrative interface framework for Flask.
  • func-to-web - Instantly create web UIs from Python functions using type hints. Zero frontend code required.
  • jet-bridge - Admin panel framework for any application with nice UI (ex Jet Django).

CMS

Content Management Systems.

  • django-cms - The easy-to-use and developer-friendly enterprise CMS powered by Django.
  • indico - A feature-rich event management system, made @ CERN.
  • wagtail - A Django content management system.

Static Site Generators

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

  • lektor - An easy to use static CMS and blog engine.
  • nikola - A static website and blog generator.
  • pelican - Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax.

HTTP & Scraping

HTTP Clients

Libraries for working with HTTP.

  • aiohttp - Asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python.
  • furl - A small Python library that makes parsing and manipulating URLs easy.
  • httpx - A next generation HTTP client for Python.
  • requests - HTTP Requests for Humans.
  • urllib3 - A HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post support, sanity friendly.

Web Scraping

Libraries to automate web scraping and extract web content.

  • Frameworks
    • browser-use - Make websites accessible for AI agents with easy browser automation.
    • crawl4ai - An open-source, LLM-friendly web crawler that provides lightning-fast, structured data extraction specifically designed for AI agents.
    • mechanicalsoup - A Python library for automating interaction with websites.
    • scrapy - A fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework.
  • Content Extraction
    • feedparser - Universal feed parser.
    • html2text - Convert HTML to Markdown-formatted text.
    • micawber - A small library for extracting rich content from URLs.
    • sumy - A module for automatic summarization of text documents and HTML pages.
    • trafilatura - A tool for gathering text and metadata from the web, with built-in content filtering.

Email

Libraries for sending and parsing email, and mail server management.

  • modoboa - A mail hosting and management platform including a modern Web UI.
  • yagmail - Yet another Gmail/SMTP client.

Database & Storage

ORM

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

  • Relational Databases
    • django.db.models - The Django ORM.
    • sqlalchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper.
    • dataset - Store Python dicts in a database - works with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
    • peewee - A small, expressive ORM.
    • pony - ORM that provides a generator-oriented interface to SQL.
    • sqlmodel - SQLModel is based on Python type annotations, and powered by Pydantic and SQLAlchemy.
    • tortoise-orm - An easy-to-use asyncio ORM inspired by Django, with relations support.
  • NoSQL Databases
    • beanie - An asynchronous Python object-document mapper (ODM) for MongoDB.
    • mongoengine - A Python Object-Document-Mapper for working with MongoDB.
    • pynamodb - A Pythonic interface for Amazon DynamoDB.

Database Drivers

Libraries for connecting and operating databases.

Database

Databases implemented in Python.

  • chromadb - An open-source embedding database for building AI applications with embeddings and semantic search.
  • duckdb - An in-process SQL OLAP database management system; optimized for analytics and fast queries, similar to SQLite but for analytical workloads.
  • pickledb - A simple and lightweight key-value store for Python.
  • tinydb - A tiny, document-oriented database.
  • ZODB - A native object database for Python. A key-value and object graph database.

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

  • cachetools - Extensible memoizing collections and decorators.
  • django-cacheops - A slick ORM cache with automatic granular event-driven invalidation.
  • dogpile.cache - dogpile.cache is a next generation replacement for Beaker made by the same authors.
  • python-diskcache - SQLite and file backed cache backend with faster lookups than memcached and redis.

Search

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

Serialization

Libraries for serializing complex data types.

  • marshmallow - A lightweight library for converting complex objects to and from simple Python datatypes.
  • msgpack - MessagePack serializer implementation for Python.
  • orjson - Fast, correct JSON library.

Data & Science

Data Analysis

Libraries for data analysis.

  • General
    • aws-sdk-pandas - Pandas on AWS.
    • datasette - An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data.
    • desbordante - An open source data profiler for complex pattern discovery.
    • ibis - A portable Python dataframe library with a single API for 20+ backends.
    • modin - A drop-in pandas replacement that scales workflows by changing a single line of code.
    • pandas - A library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools.
    • pathway - Real-time data processing framework for Python with reactive dataflows.
    • polars - A fast DataFrame library implemented in Rust with a Python API.
  • Financial Data
    • akshare - A financial data interface library, built for human beings!
    • edgartools - Library for downloading structured data from SEC EDGAR filings and XBRL financial statements.
    • openbb - A financial data platform for analysts, quants and AI agents.
    • yfinance - Easy Pythonic way to download market and financial data from Yahoo Finance.

Data Validation

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

  • cerberus - A lightweight and extensible data validation library.
  • jsonschema - An implementation of JSON Schema for Python.
  • pandera - A data validation library for dataframes, with support for pandas, polars, and Spark.
  • pydantic - Data validation using Python type hints.

Data Visualization

Libraries for visualizing data. Also see awesome-javascript.

  • Plotting
    • altair - Declarative statistical visualization library for Python.
    • bokeh - Interactive Web Plotting for Python.
    • bqplot - Interactive Plotting Library for the Jupyter Notebook.
    • matplotlib - A Python 2D plotting library.
    • plotly - Interactive graphing library for Python.
    • plotnine - A grammar of graphics for Python based on ggplot2.
    • pygal - A Python SVG Charts Creator.
    • pyqtgraph - Interactive and realtime 2D/3D/Image plotting and science/engineering widgets.
    • seaborn - Statistical data visualization using Matplotlib.
    • ultraplot - Matplotlib wrapper for publication-ready scientific figures with minimal code. Includes advanced subplot management, panel layouts, and batteries-included geoscience plotting.
    • vispy - High-performance scientific visualization based on OpenGL.
  • Specialized
  • Dashboards and Apps
    • gradio - Build and share machine learning apps, all in Python.
    • streamlit - A framework which lets you build dashboards, generate reports, or create chat apps in minutes.

Geolocation

Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

  • django-countries - A Django app that provides a country field for models and forms.
  • geodjango - A world-class geographic web framework.
  • geojson - Python bindings and utilities for GeoJSON.
  • geopandas - Python tools for geographic data (GeoSeries/GeoDataFrame) built on pandas.
  • geopy - Python Geocoding Toolbox.

Science

Libraries for scientific computing. Also see Python-for-Scientists.

  • Core
    • numba - Python JIT compiler to LLVM aimed at scientific Python.
    • numpy - A fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.
    • 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.
  • Biology and Chemistry
    • biopython - Biopython is a set of freely available tools for biological computation.
    • cclib - A library for parsing and interpreting the results of computational chemistry packages.
    • openbabel - A chemical toolbox designed to speak the many languages of chemical data.
    • rdkit - Cheminformatics and Machine Learning Software.
  • Physics and Engineering
    • astropy - A community Python library for Astronomy.
    • obspy - A Python toolbox for seismology.
    • pydy - Short for Python Dynamics, used to assist with workflow in the modeling of dynamic motion.
    • PythonRobotics - This is a compilation of various robotics algorithms with visualizations.
  • Simulation and Modeling
    • pathsim - A block-based system modeling and simulation framework with a browser-based visual editor.
    • pymc - Probabilistic programming and Bayesian modeling in Python.
    • simpy - A process-based discrete-event simulation framework.
  • Other
    • colour - Implementing a comprehensive number of colour theory transformations and algorithms.
    • manim - An animation engine for explanatory math videos.
    • networkx - A high-productivity software for complex networks.
    • shapely - Manipulation and analysis of geometric objects in the Cartesian plane.

Quantum Computing

Libraries for quantum computing.

  • Cirq — A Google-developed framework focused on hardware-aware quantum circuit design for NISQ devices.
  • pennylane — A hybrid quantum-classical machine learning library with automatic differentiation support.
  • qiskit — An IBM-backed quantum SDK for building, simulating, and running circuits on real quantum hardware.
  • qutip - Quantum Toolbox in Python.

Developer Tools

Algorithms and Design Patterns

Python implementation of data structures, algorithms and design patterns. Also see awesome-algorithms.

  • Algorithms
    • algorithms - Minimal examples of data structures and algorithms.
    • sortedcontainers - Fast and pure-Python implementation of sorted collections.
    • thealgorithms - All Algorithms implemented in Python.
  • Design Patterns
    • python-cqrs - Event-Driven Architecture Framework with CQRS/CQS, Transaction Outbox, Saga orchestration.
    • python-patterns - A collection of design patterns in Python.
    • transitions - A lightweight, object-oriented finite state machine implementation.

Interactive Interpreter

Interactive Python interpreters (REPL).

Code Analysis

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

  • Code Analysis
    • code2flow - Turn your Python and JavaScript code into DOT flowcharts.
    • prospector - A tool to analyze Python code.
    • vulture - A tool for finding and analyzing dead Python code.
  • Code Linters
    • bandit - A tool designed to find common security issues in Python code.
    • flake8 - A wrapper around pycodestyle, pyflakes and McCabe.
    • pylint - A fully customizable source code analyzer.
    • ruff - An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter.
  • Code Formatters
    • black - The uncompromising Python code formatter.
    • isort - A Python utility / library to sort imports.
  • Static Type Checkers, also see awesome-python-typing
    • mypy - Check variable types during compile time.
    • pyre-check - Performant type checking.
    • ty - An extremely fast Python type checker and language server.
    • typeshed - Collection of library stubs for Python, with static types.
  • Refactoring
    • rope - Rope is a python refactoring library.
  • Static Type Annotations Generators
    • monkeytype - A system for Python that generates static type annotations by collecting runtime types.
    • pytype - Pytype checks and infers types for Python code - without requiring type annotations.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

  • Testing Frameworks
    • hypothesis - Hypothesis is an advanced Quickcheck style property based testing library.
    • pytest - A mature full-featured Python testing tool.
    • robotframework - A generic test automation framework.
    • scanapi - Automated Testing and Documentation for your REST API.
    • unittest - (Python standard library) Unit testing framework.
  • Test Runners
    • nox - Flexible test automation for Python.
    • tox - Auto builds and tests distributions in multiple Python versions
  • GUI / Web Testing
    • locust - Scalable user load testing tool written in Python.
    • playwright - Python version of the Playwright testing and automation library.
    • pyautogui - PyAutoGUI is a cross-platform GUI automation Python module for human beings.
    • schemathesis - A tool for automatic property-based testing of web applications built with Open API / Swagger specifications.
    • selenium - Python bindings for Selenium WebDriver.
  • Mock
    • freezegun - Travel through time by mocking the datetime module.
    • mock - (Python standard library) A mocking and patching library.
    • mocket - A socket mock framework with gevent/asyncio/SSL support.
    • responses - A utility library for mocking out the requests Python library.
    • vcrpy - Record and replay HTTP interactions on your tests.
  • Object Factories
    • factory_boy - A test fixtures replacement for Python.
    • polyfactory - mock data generation library with support to classes (continuation of pydantic-factories)
  • Code Coverage
  • Fake Data
    • faker - A Python package that generates fake data.
    • mimesis - is a Python library that help you generate fake data.

Debugging Tools

Libraries for debugging code.

  • pdb-like Debugger
    • ipdb - IPython-enabled pdb.
    • pudb - A full-screen, console-based Python debugger.
  • Tracing
    • manhole - Debugging UNIX socket connections and present the stacktraces for all threads and an interactive prompt.
    • python-hunter - A flexible code tracing toolkit.
  • Profiler
    • py-spy - A sampling profiler for Python programs. Written in Rust.
    • scalene - A high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, and memory profiler for Python.
  • Others
    • django-debug-toolbar - Display various debug information for Django.
    • flask-debugtoolbar - A port of the django-debug-toolbar to flask.
    • icecream - Inspect variables, expressions, and program execution with a single, simple function call.
    • memory_graph - Visualize Python data at runtime to debug references, mutability, and aliasing.

Build Tools

Compile software from source code.

  • bitbake - A make-like build tool for embedded Linux.
  • invoke - A tool for managing shell-oriented subprocesses and organizing executable Python code into CLI-invokable tasks.
  • platformio - A console tool to build code with different development platforms.
  • pybuilder - A continuous build tool written in pure Python.
  • doit - A task runner and build tool.
  • scons - A software construction tool.

Documentation

Libraries for generating project documentation.

  • sphinx - Python Documentation generator.
  • diagrams - Diagram as Code.
  • mkdocs - Markdown friendly documentation generator.
  • pdoc - Epydoc replacement to auto generate API documentation for Python libraries.

DevOps

DevOps Tools

Software and libraries for DevOps.

  • Cloud Providers
    • awscli - Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services.
    • boto3 - Python interface to Amazon Web Services.
  • Configuration Management
    • ansible - A radically simple IT automation platform.
    • cloudinit - A multi-distribution package that handles early initialization of a cloud instance.
    • openstack - Open source software for building private and public clouds.
    • pyinfra - A versatile CLI tools and python libraries to automate infrastructure.
    • saltstack - Infrastructure automation and management system.
  • Deployment
    • chalice - A Python serverless microframework for AWS.
    • fabric - A simple, Pythonic tool for remote execution and deployment.
  • Monitoring and Processes
    • psutil - A cross-platform process and system utilities module.
    • sentry-python - Sentry SDK for Python.
    • sh - A full-fledged subprocess replacement for Python.
    • supervisor - Supervisor process control system for UNIX.
  • Other
    • borg - A deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption.
    • chaostoolkit - A Chaos Engineering toolkit & Orchestration for Developers.
    • pre-commit - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.

Distributed Computing

Frameworks and libraries for Distributed Computing.

  • Batch Processing
    • dask - A flexible parallel computing library for analytic computing.
    • luigi - A module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs.
    • mpi4py - Python bindings for MPI.
    • pyspark - Apache Spark Python API.
    • joblib - A set of tools to provide lightweight pipelining in Python.
    • ray - A system for parallel and distributed Python that unifies the machine learning ecosystem.

Task Queues

Libraries for working with task queues.

  • celery - An asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.
    • flower - Real-time monitor and web admin for Celery.
  • dramatiq - A fast and reliable background task processing library for Python 3.
  • huey - Little multi-threaded task queue.
  • rq - Simple job queues for Python.

Job Schedulers

Libraries for scheduling jobs.

  • airflow - Airflow is a platform to programmatically author, schedule and monitor workflows.
  • apscheduler - A light but powerful in-process task scheduler that lets you schedule functions.
  • dagster - An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets.
  • prefect - A modern workflow orchestration framework that makes it easy to build, schedule and monitor robust data pipelines.
  • schedule - Python job scheduling for humans.
  • SpiffWorkflow - A powerful workflow engine implemented in pure Python.

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with logs.

  • logging - (Python standard library) Logging facility for Python.
  • loguru - Library which aims to bring enjoyable logging in Python.
  • structlog - Structured logging made easy.

Network Virtualization

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

  • mininet - A popular network emulator and API written in Python.
  • napalm - Cross-vendor API to manipulate network devices.
  • scapy - A brilliant packet manipulation library.

CLI & GUI

Command-line Interface Development

Libraries for building command-line applications.

  • Command-line Application Development
    • argparse - (Python standard library) Command-line option and argument parsing.
    • cement - CLI Application Framework for Python.
    • click - A package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way.
    • python-fire - A library for creating command line interfaces from absolutely any Python object.
    • python-prompt-toolkit - A library for building powerful interactive command lines.
    • typer - Modern CLI framework that uses Python type hints. Built on Click and Pydantic.
  • Terminal Rendering
    • alive-progress - A new kind of Progress Bar, with real-time throughput, eta and very cool animations.
    • asciimatics - A package to create full-screen text UIs (from interactive forms to ASCII animations).
    • colorama - Cross-platform colored terminal text.
    • rich - Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. Also provides a great RichHandler log handler.
    • textual - A framework for building interactive user interfaces that run in the terminal and the browser.
    • tqdm - Fast, extensible progress bar for loops and CLI.

Command-line Tools

Useful CLI-based tools for productivity.

  • Productivity Tools
    • cookiecutter - A command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates).
    • copier - A library and command-line utility for rendering projects templates.
    • doitlive - A tool for live presentations in the terminal.
    • thefuck - Correcting your previous console command.
    • tmuxp - A tmux session manager.
    • xonsh - A Python-powered shell. Full-featured and cross-platform.
    • yt-dlp - A command-line program to download videos from YouTube and other video sites, a fork of youtube-dl.
  • CLI Enhancements
    • httpie - A command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement.
    • iredis - Redis CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
    • litecli - SQLite CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
    • mycli - MySQL CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
    • pgcli - PostgreSQL CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.

GUI Development

Libraries for working with graphical user interface applications.

  • Desktop
    • customtkinter - A modern and customizable python UI-library based on Tkinter.
    • dearpygui - A Simple GPU accelerated Python GUI framework
    • enaml - Creating beautiful user-interfaces with Declarative 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.
    • pygobject - Python Bindings for GLib/GObject/GIO/GTK+ (GTK+3).
    • PyQt - Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework.
    • pyside - Qt for Python offers the official Python bindings for Qt, this is same as PyQt but it's the official binding with different licensing.
    • tkinter - (Python standard library) The standard Python interface to the Tcl/Tk GUI toolkit.
    • toga - A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit.
    • wxPython - A blending of the wxWidgets C++ class library with the Python.
  • Web-based
    • flet - Cross-platform GUI framework for building modern apps in pure Python.
    • nicegui - An easy-to-use, Python-based UI framework, which shows up in your web browser.
    • pywebview - A lightweight cross-platform native wrapper around a webview component.
  • Terminal
    • curses - Built-in wrapper for ncurses used to create terminal GUI applications.
    • urwid - A library for creating terminal GUI applications with strong support for widgets, events, rich colors, etc.
  • Wrappers
    • gooey - Turn command line programs into a full GUI application with one line.

Text & Documents

Text Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating plain texts.

  • General
    • babel - An internationalization library for Python.
    • chardet - Python 2/3 compatible character encoding detector.
    • difflib - (Python standard library) Helpers for computing deltas.
    • ftfy - Makes Unicode text less broken and more consistent automagically.
    • pangu.py - Paranoid text spacing.
    • pyfiglet - An implementation of figlet written in Python.
    • pypinyin - Convert Chinese hanzi (漢字) to pinyin (拼音).
    • python-slugify - A Python slugify library that translates unicode to ASCII.
    • textdistance - Compute distance between sequences with 30+ algorithms.
    • unidecode - ASCII transliterations of Unicode text.
  • Unique identifiers
    • sqids - A library for generating short unique IDs from numbers.
    • shortuuid - A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs.
  • Parser

HTML Manipulation

Libraries for working with HTML and XML.

  • beautifulsoup - Providing Pythonic idioms for iterating, searching, and modifying HTML or XML.
  • cssutils - A CSS library for Python.
  • justhtml - A pure Python HTML5 parser that just works.
  • 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.
  • xmltodict - Working with XML feel like you are working with JSON.

File Format Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating specific text formats.

  • General
    • docling - Library for converting documents into structured data.
    • kreuzberg - High-performance document extraction library with a Rust core, supporting 62+ formats including PDF, Office, images with OCR, HTML, email, and archives.
    • pyelftools - Parsing and analyzing ELF files and DWARF debugging information.
    • tablib - A module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML.
  • Office
    • docxtpl - Editing a docx document by jinja2 template
    • openpyxl - A library for reading and writing Excel 2010 xlsx/xlsm/xltx/xltm files.
    • pyexcel - Providing one API for reading, manipulating and writing csv, ods, xls, xlsx and xlsm files.
    • python-docx - Reads, queries and modifies Microsoft Word 2007/2008 docx files.
    • python-pptx - Python library for creating and updating PowerPoint (.pptx) 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.
  • PDF
    • pdf_oxide - A fast PDF library for text extraction, image extraction, and markdown conversion, powered by Rust.
    • pdfminer.six - Pdfminer.six is a community maintained fork of the original PDFMiner.
    • pikepdf - A powerful library for reading and editing PDF files, based on qpdf.
    • pypdf - A library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming PDF pages.
    • reportlab - Allowing Rapid creation of rich PDF documents.
    • weasyprint - A visual rendering engine for HTML and CSS that can export to PDF.
  • Markdown
    • markdown-it-py - Markdown parser with 100% CommonMark support, extensions, and syntax plugins.
    • markdown - A Python implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown.
    • markitdown - Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
    • mistune - Fastest and full featured pure Python parsers of Markdown.
  • Data Formats
    • csvkit - Utilities for converting to and working with CSV.
    • pyyaml - YAML implementations for Python.
    • tomllib - (Python standard library) Parse TOML files.

File Manipulation

Libraries for file manipulation.

  • mimetypes - (Python standard library) Map filenames to MIME types.
  • pathlib - (Python standard library) A cross-platform, object-oriented path library.
  • python-magic - A Python interface to the libmagic file type identification library.
  • watchdog - API and shell utilities to monitor file system events.
  • watchfiles - Simple, modern and fast file watching and code reload in python.

Media

Image Processing

Libraries for manipulating images.

  • pillow - Pillow is the friendly PIL fork.
  • pymatting - A library for alpha matting.
  • python-barcode - Create barcodes in Python with no extra dependencies.
  • python-qrcode - A pure Python QR Code generator.
  • pyvips - A fast image processing library with low memory needs.
  • 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.

Audio & Video Processing

Libraries for manipulating audio, video, and their metadata.

  • Audio
    • gtts - Python library and CLI tool for converting text to speech using Google Translate TTS.
    • librosa - Python library for audio and music analysis.
    • matchering - A library for automated reference audio mastering.
    • pydub - Manipulate audio with a simple and easy high level interface.
  • Video
    • moviepy - A module for script-based movie editing with many formats, including animated GIFs.
    • vidgear - Most Powerful multi-threaded Video Processing framework.
  • Metadata
    • beets - A music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger.
    • mutagen - A Python module to handle audio metadata.
    • tinytag - A library for reading music meta data of MP3, OGG, FLAC and Wave files.

Game Development

Awesome game development libraries.

  • arcade - Arcade is a modern Python framework for crafting games with compelling graphics and sound.
  • panda3d - 3D game engine developed by Disney.
  • py-sdl2 - A ctypes based wrapper for the SDL2 library.
  • pygame - Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing games.
  • pyopengl - Python ctypes bindings for OpenGL and it's related APIs.
  • renpy - A Visual Novel engine.

Python Language

Implementations

Implementations of Python.

  • cpython - Default, most widely used implementation of the Python programming language written in C.
  • cython - Optimizing Static Compiler for Python.
  • ironpython - Implementation of the Python programming language written in C#.
  • micropython - A lean and efficient Python programming language implementation.
  • pypy - A very fast and compliant implementation of the Python language.

Built-in Classes Enhancement

Libraries for enhancing Python built-in classes.

  • attrs - Replacement for __init__, __eq__, __repr__, etc. boilerplate in class definitions.
  • bidict - Efficient, Pythonic bidirectional map data structures and related functionality.
  • box - Python dictionaries with advanced dot notation access.

Functional Programming

Functional Programming with Python.

  • coconut - A variant of Python built for simple, elegant, Pythonic functional programming.
  • functools - (Python standard library) Higher-order functions and operations on callable objects.
  • funcy - A fancy and practical functional tools.
  • more-itertools - More routines for operating on iterables, beyond itertools.
  • returns - A set of type-safe monads, transformers, and composition utilities.
  • toolz - A collection of functional utilities for iterators, functions, and dictionaries. Also available as cytoolz for Cython-accelerated performance.

Asynchronous Programming

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

  • anyio - A high-level async concurrency and networking framework that works on top of asyncio or trio.
  • asyncio - (Python standard library) Asynchronous I/O, event loop, coroutines and tasks.
  • concurrent.futures - (Python standard library) A high-level interface for asynchronously executing callables.
  • gevent - A coroutine-based Python networking library that uses greenlet.
  • multiprocessing - (Python standard library) Process-based parallelism.
  • trio - A friendly library for async concurrency and I/O.
  • twisted - An event-driven networking engine.
  • uvloop - Ultra fast asyncio event loop.

Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

  • dateparser - A Python parser for human-readable dates in dozens of languages.
  • dateutil - Extensions to the standard Python datetime module.
  • pendulum - Python datetimes made easy.
  • zoneinfo - (Python standard library) IANA time zone support. Brings the tz database into Python.

Python Toolchain

Environment Management

Libraries for Python version and virtual environment management.

  • pyenv - Simple Python version management.
    • pyenv-win - Pyenv for Windows, Simple Python version management.
  • uv - An extremely fast Python version, package and project manager, written in Rust.
  • virtualenv - A tool to create isolated Python environments.

Package Management

Libraries for package and dependency management.

  • conda - Cross-platform, Python-agnostic binary package manager.
  • pip - The package installer for Python.
  • pipx - Install and Run Python Applications in Isolated Environments. Like npx in Node.js.
  • poetry - Python dependency management and packaging made easy.
  • uv - An extremely fast Python version, package and project manager, written in Rust.

Package Repositories

Local PyPI repository server and proxies.

  • bandersnatch - PyPI mirroring tool provided by Python Packaging Authority (PyPA).
  • devpi - PyPI server and packaging/testing/release tool.
  • warehouse - Next generation Python Package Repository (PyPI).

Distribution

Libraries to create packaged executables for release distribution.

  • cx-Freeze - It is a Python tool that converts Python scripts into standalone executables and installers for Windows, macOS, and Linux.
  • Nuitka - Compiles Python programs into high-performance standalone executables (cross-platform, supports all Python versions).
  • pyarmor - A tool used to obfuscate python scripts, bind obfuscated scripts to fixed machine or expire obfuscated scripts.
  • pyinstaller - Converts Python programs into stand-alone executables (cross-platform).
  • shiv - A command line utility for building fully self-contained zipapps (PEP 441), but with all their dependencies included.

Configuration Files

Libraries for storing and parsing configuration options.

  • configparser - (Python standard library) INI file parser.
  • dynaconf - Dynaconf is a configuration manager with plugins for Django, Flask and FastAPI.
  • hydra - Hydra is a framework for elegantly configuring complex applications.
  • python-decouple - Strict separation of settings from code.
  • python-dotenv - Reads key-value pairs from a .env file and sets them as environment variables.

Security

Cryptography

  • cryptography - A package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.
  • paramiko - The leading native Python SSHv2 protocol library.
  • pynacl - Python binding to the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library.

Penetration Testing

Frameworks and tools for penetration testing.

  • mitmproxy - An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.
  • setoolkit - A toolkit for social engineering.
  • sherlock - Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks.
  • sqlmap - Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool.

Miscellaneous

Hardware

Libraries for programming with hardware.

  • bleak - A cross platform Bluetooth Low Energy Client for Python using asyncio.
  • pynput - A library to control and monitor input devices.

Microsoft Windows

Python programming on Microsoft Windows.

  • pythonnet - Python Integration with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR).
  • pywin32 - Python Extensions for Windows.
  • winpython - Portable development environment for Windows 10/11.

Miscellaneous

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

  • blinker - A fast Python in-process signal/event dispatching system.
  • boltons - A set of pure-Python utilities.
  • itsdangerous - Various helpers to pass trusted data to untrusted environments.
  • tryton - A general-purpose business framework.

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