Awesome Python

• Networking

  • pulsar - 3-Clause](https://api.github.com/licenses/bsd-3-clause)- Event driven concurrent framework for Python
  • napalm - 2.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/apache-2.0)- Network Automation and Programmability Abstraction Layer with Multivendor support
  • diesel - Greenlet-based event I/O Framework for Python
  • txZMQ - 2.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/gpl-2.0)- ZeroMQ bindings for Twisted

• Network Virtualization

  • Mininet - A popular network emulator and API written in Python.
  • Pyretic - A member of the Frenetic family of SDN programming languages that provides powerful abstractions over network switches or emulators.
  • pox - 2.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/apache-2.0)- The POX network software platform
  • Mininet - A popular network emulator and API written in Python.
  • Pyretic - A member of the Frenetic family of SDN programming languages that provides powerful abstractions over network switches or emulators.

• News Feed

  • Stream-Framework - Stream Framework is a Python library, which allows you to build news feed, activity streams and notification systems using Cassandra and/or Redis. The authors of Stream-Framework also provide a cloud service for feed technology:
  • django-activity-stream - 3-Clause](https://api.github.com/licenses/bsd-3-clause)- Generate generic activity streams from the actions on your site. Users can follow any actors' activities for personalized streams.

• ORM

  • awesome-sqlalchemy - A curated list of awesome tools for SQLAlchemy
  • Django Models - A part of Django.
  • MongoEngine - A Python Object-Document-Mapper for working with MongoDB.
  • peewee - a small, expressive orm -- supports postgresql, mysql and sqlite
  • pydal - A pure Python Database Abstraction Layer
  • Orator - The Orator ORM provides a simple yet beautiful ActiveRecord implementation.
  • PynamoDB - A pythonic interface to Amazon's DynamoDB
  • mongodb-engine - Django MongoDB Backend
  • redisco - A Python Library for Simple Models and Containers Persisted in Redis
  • hot-redis - 2-Clause](https://api.github.com/licenses/bsd-2-clause)- Rich Python data types for Redis
  • flywheel - Object mapper for Amazon's DynamoDB
  • MongoEngine - A Python Object-Document-Mapper for working with MongoDB.
  • butterdb - butterdb is a Python object mapper for Google Drive Spreadsheets. Still in development, but usable.
  • PonyORM - ORM that provides a generator-oriented interface to SQL.

• Package Management

  • pip - The Python package and dependency manager [Python Package Index](https://pypi.python.org/pypi).
  • Curdling - Curdling is a command line tool for managing Python packages.
  • pip-tools - A set of tools to keep your pinned Python dependencies fresh.
  • conda - OS-agnostic, system-level binary package manager and ecosystem
  • Curdling - Curdling is a command line tool for managing Python packages.

• Package Repositories

  • devpi - PyPI server and packaging/testing/release tool.
  • warehouse - 2.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/apache-2.0)- The Python Package Repository
  • localshop - local pypi server (custom packages and auto-mirroring of pypi)

• Permissions

  • django-guardian - Per object permissions for Django
  • django-rules - Awesome Django authorization, without the database
  • python-carteblanche - Module to align code with thoughts of users and designers. Also magically handles navigation and permissions.

• Processes

  • sh - Python process launching
  • delegator.py - Subprocesses for Humans 2.0.

• Queue

  • huey - a little task queue for python
  • mrq - Mr. Queue - A distributed worker task queue in Python using Redis & gevent
  • simpleq - A simple, infinitely scalable, SQS based queue.

• Recommender Systems

  • annoy - 2.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/apache-2.0)- Approximate Nearest Neighbors in C++/Python optimized for memory usage and loading/saving to disk
  • lightfm - 2.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/apache-2.0)- A Python implementation of LightFM, a hybrid recommendation algorithm.
  • spotlight - Deep recommender models using PyTorch.
  • implicit - Fast Python Collaborative Filtering for Implicit Feedback Datasets
  • tensorrec - 2.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/apache-2.0)- A TensorFlow recommendation algorithm and framework in Python.
  • fastFM - fastFM: A Library for Factorization Machines
  • surprise - A scikit for building and analyzing recommender systems.
  • libffm - A Library for Field-aware Factorization Machines

• RESTful API

  • django-tastypie - Creating delicious APIs for Django apps.
  • flask-api - Browsable Web APIs for Flask.
  • falcon - A high-performance framework for building cloud APIs and web app backends.
  • django-tastypie - Creating delicious APIs for Django apps.
  • eve - REST API framework designed for human beings
  • flask-restful - 3-Clause](https://api.github.com/licenses/bsd-3-clause)- Simple framework for creating REST APIs
  • flask-restless - A Flask extension for creating simple ReSTful JSON APIs from SQLAlchemy models.
  • flask-api-utils - Flask extension that takes care of API representation and authentication.
  • cornice - Build Web Services with Pyramid.
  • hug - Embrace the APIs of the future. Hug aims to make developing APIs as simple as possible, but no simpler.
  • apistar - 3-Clause](https://api.github.com/licenses/bsd-3-clause)- The Web API toolkit. 🛠
  • sandman - 2.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/apache-2.0)- Sandman "makes things REST".
  • restless - 3-Clause](https://api.github.com/licenses/bsd-3-clause)- A lightweight REST miniframework for Python.
  • ripozo - 2.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/gpl-2.0)- A tool for quickly creating REST/HATEOAS/Hypermedia APIs in python

• Robotics

  • rospy - This is a library for ROS (Robot Operating System).
  • PythonRobotics - Python sample codes for robotics algorithms.
  • rospy - This is a library for ROS (Robot Operating System).

• RPC Servers

  • SimpleXMLRPCServer - (Python standard library) Simple XML-RPC server implementation, single-threaded.
  • zerorpc-python - zerorpc for python
  • jsonrpclib - A Python JSON-RPC over HTTP that mirrors xmlrpclib syntax.

• Science

  • PyDy - Short for Python Dynamics, used to assist with workflow in the modeling of dynamic motion.
  • RDKit - Cheminformatics and Machine Learning Software.
  • SimPy - A process-based discrete-event simulation framework.
  • zipline - 2.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/apache-2.0)- Zipline, a Pythonic Algorithmic Trading Library
  • sympy - A computer algebra system written in pure Python
  • statsmodels - Statsmodels: statistical modeling and econometrics in Python
  • bcbio-nextgen - Validated, scalable, community developed variant calling, RNA-seq and small RNA analysis
  • obspy - ObsPy: A Python Toolbox for seismology/seismological observatories.
  • bcbb - Incubator for useful bioinformatics code, primarily in Python and R
  • SciPy - A Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.
  • NumPy - A fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.
  • Open Babel - A chemical toolbox designed to speak the many languages of chemical data.
  • pymc3 - Probabilistic Programming in Python: Bayesian Modeling and Probabilistic Machine Learning with Theano
  • astropy - A community Python library for Astronomy.
  • NIPY - A collection of neuroimaging toolkits.

• Search

  • elasticsearch-py - The official low-level Python client for [Elasticsearch](https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch).
  • django-haystack - Modular search for Django
  • elasticsearch-dsl-py - 2.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/apache-2.0)- High level Python client for Elasticsearch
  • pysolr - Pysolr — Python Solr client
  • esengine - ElasticSearch ODM (Object Document Mapper) for Python - pip install esengine
  • solrpy - Automatically exported from code.google.com/p/solrpy
  • elasticsearch-py - The official low-level Python client for [Elasticsearch](https://www.elastic.co/products/elasticsearch).
  • Whoosh - A fast, pure Python search engine library.

• Serialization

  • marshmallow - A lightweight library for converting complex objects to and from simple Python datatypes.

• Serverless Frameworks

  • Zappa - Serverless Python
  • apex - Build, deploy, and manage AWS Lambda functions with ease.
  • python-lambda - A toolkit for developing and deploying serverless Python code in AWS Lambda.

• Specific Formats Processing

  • openpyxl - A library for reading and writing Excel 2010 xlsx/xlsm/xltx/xltm files.
  • ReportLab - Allowing Rapid creation of rich PDF documents.
  • tablib - Python Module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML, &c.
  • xlrd - Library for developers to extract data from Microsoft Excel (tm) spreadsheet files
  • python-docx - Create and modify Word documents with Python
  • unoconv - 2.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/gpl-2.0)- Universal Office Converter - Convert between any document format supported by LibreOffice/OpenOffice.
  • python-pptx - Create Open XML PowerPoint documents in Python
  • pyexcel - Single API for reading, manipulating and writing data in csv, ods, xls, xlsx and xlsm files
  • mm - Python powered spreadsheets
  • pdfminer - Python PDF Parser
  • PyPDF2 - A utility to read and write PDFs with Python
  • markdown - A Python implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown with Extension support.
  • mistune - 3-Clause](https://api.github.com/licenses/bsd-3-clause)- The fastest markdown parser in pure Python with renderer feature.
  • csvkit - A suite of utilities for converting to and working with CSV, the king of tabular file formats.
  • unp - Unpacks things.
  • xlwings - A BSD-licensed library that makes it easy to call Python from Excel and vice versa.

• Static Site Generator

  • Hyde - Jinja2-based static web site generator.
  • Lektor - An easy to use static CMS and blog engine.
  • Nikola - A static website and blog generator.
  • Tinkerer - Tinkerer is a blogging engine/.static website generator powered by Sphinx.
  • Cactus - Static site generator for designers. Uses Python and Django templates.
  • Hyde - Jinja2-based static web site generator.

• Tagging

  • django-taggit - Simple tagging for django

• Template Engine

  • Genshi - Python templating toolkit for generation of web-aware output.
  • jinja - The Jinja2 template engine

• Testing

  • pytest - A mature full-featured Python testing tool.
  • unittest - (Python standard library) Unit testing framework.
  • mock - (Python standard library) A mocking and patching library.
  • hypothesis - Hypothesis is a powerful, flexible, and easy to use library for property-based testing.
  • robotframework - Generic automation framework for acceptance testing and RPA
  • nose - nose is nicer testing for python
  • nose2 - The successor to nose, based on unittest2
  • green - Green is a clean, colorful, fast python test runner.
  • locust - Scalable user load testing tool written in Python
  • pyautogui - 3-Clause](https://api.github.com/licenses/bsd-3-clause)- A cross-platform GUI automation Python module for human beings. Used to programmatically control the mouse & keyboard.
  • splinter - 3-Clause](https://api.github.com/licenses/bsd-3-clause)- splinter - python test framework for web applications
  • sixpack - 2-Clause](https://api.github.com/licenses/bsd-2-clause)- Sixpack is a language-agnostic a/b-testing framework
  • responses - 2.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/apache-2.0)- A utility for mocking out the Python Requests library.
  • freezegun - 2.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/apache-2.0)- Let your Python tests travel through time
  • HTTPretty - HTTP client mocking tool for Python - inspired by Fakeweb for Ruby
  • vcrpy - Automatically mock your HTTP interactions to simplify and speed up testing
  • httmock - A mocking library for requests
  • python-mocket - 3-Clause](https://api.github.com/licenses/bsd-3-clause)- a socket mock framework - for all kinds of socket animals, web-clients included
  • doublex - Powerful test doubles framework for Python.
  • factory_boy - A test fixtures replacement for Python
  • model_mommy - Object factory for django
  • mixer - Mixer -- Is a fixtures replacement. Supported Django, Flask, SqlAlchemy and custom python objects.
  • faker - Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you.
  • mimesis - Mimesis is fast and extremely easy to use Python package, which helps generate big volumes of fake data for a variety of purposes in a variety of languages.
  • fake2db - 2.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/gpl-2.0)- create custom test databases that are populated with fake data
  • radar - Generate random datetime / time.
  • fuckitpy - The Python error steamroller.

• Text Processing

  • difflib - (Python standard library) Helpers for computing deltas.
  • PLY - Implementation of lex and yacc parsing tools for Python.
  • fuzzywuzzy - 2.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/gpl-2.0)- Fuzzy String Matching in Python
  • python-ftfy - Fixes mojibake and other glitches in Unicode text, after the fact.
  • python-pinyin - 汉字转拼音(pypinyin)
  • chardet - 2.1](https://api.github.com/licenses/lgpl-2.1)- Python 2/3 compatible character encoding detector.
  • shortuuid - 3-Clause](https://api.github.com/licenses/bsd-3-clause)- A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs.
  • hashids-python - Implementation of hashids (http://hashids.org) in Python. Compatible with Python 2 and Python 3
  • xpinyin - translate chinese hanzi to pinyin by python
  • python-Levenshtein - 2.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/gpl-2.0)- The Levenshtein Python C extension module contains functions for fast computation of Levenshtein distance and string similarity
  • pyfiglet - An implementation of figlet written in Python
  • uniout - Never see escaped bytes in output.
  • pangu.py - Paranoid text spacing in Python
  • unidecode - ASCII transliterations of Unicode text.
  • python-slugify - Returns unicode slugs
  • awesome-slugify - Python flexible slugify function
  • unicode-slugify - A slugifier that works in unicode
  • python-phonenumbers - 2.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/apache-2.0)- Python port of Google's libphonenumber
  • sqlparse - 3-Clause](https://api.github.com/licenses/bsd-3-clause)- A non-validating SQL parser module for Python
  • python-user-agents - A Python library that provides an easy way to identify devices like mobile phones, tablets and their capabilities by parsing (browser) user agent strings.
  • python-nameparser - A simple Python module for parsing human names into their individual components
  • PLY - Implementation of lex and yacc parsing tools for Python.
  • textdistance - 3.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/lgpl-3.0)- Compute distance between sequences. 30+ algorithms, pure python implementation, common interface, optional external libs usage.

• Third-party APIs

  • apache-libcloud - One Python library for all clouds.
  • List of Python API Wrappers and Libraries
  • boto3 - AWS SDK for Python
  • gspread - Google Sheets Python API
  • google-api-python-client - 🐍 The official Python client library for Google's discovery based APIs.
  • facebook-sdk - 2.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/apache-2.0)- Python SDK for Facebook's Graph API
  • twython - Actively maintained, pure Python wrapper for the Twitter API. Supports both normal and streaming Twitter APIs.
  • gmail - A Pythonic interface for Google Mail
  • facepy - Facepy makes it really easy to use Facebook's Graph API
  • django-wordpress - 3-Clause](https://api.github.com/licenses/bsd-3-clause)- WordPress models and views for Django.

• URL Manipulation

  • furl - 🌐 URL parsing and manipulation made easy.
  • webargs - A friendly library for parsing HTTP request arguments, with built-in support for popular web frameworks, including Flask, Django, Bottle, Tornado, Pyramid, webapp2, Falcon, and aiohttp.
  • purl - A simple, immutable URL class with a clean API for interrogation and manipulation.
  • pyshorteners - 3.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/gpl-3.0)- :electric_plug: A Python lib to consume the most used shorteners APIs (WIP)
  • python-short_url - Python implementation for generating Tiny URL- and bit.ly-like URLs.

• Video

  • scikit-video - Video processing routines for SciPy

• Web Content Extracting

  • haul - An Extensible Image Crawler
  • requests-html - Pythonic HTML Parsing for Humans™
  • newspaper - News, full-text, and article metadata extraction in Python 3. Advanced docs:
  • python-goose - 2.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/apache-2.0)- Html Content / Article Extractor, web scrapping lib in Python
  • toapi - Every web site provides APIs.
  • textract - extract text from any document. no muss. no fuss.
  • sumy - 2.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/apache-2.0)- Module for automatic summarization of text documents and HTML pages.
  • python-readability - fast python port of arc90's readability tool, updated to match latest readability.js!
  • html2text - 3.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/gpl-3.0)- Convert HTML to Markdown-formatted text.
  • lassie - Web Content Retrieval for Humans™
  • micawber - a small library for extracting rich content from urls
  • python-sanitize - 2-Clause](https://api.github.com/licenses/bsd-2-clause)- Bringing sanity to world of messed-up data

• Web Crawling & Web Scraping

  • pyspider - 2.0](https://api.github.com/licenses/apache-2.0)- A Powerful Spider(Web Crawler) System in Python.