Libraries
This part focuses on libraries.
Package Management
Libraries for package and dependency management.
- Setuptools - a fully-featured library designed to facilitate packaging Python projects
- pip - The PyPA recommended tool for installing Python packages
Framework
Web development frameworks.
- django - The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines
- tornado - A Python web framework and asynchronous networking library
- pyramid - Pyramid web framework
Micro Frameworks
Micro frameworks and routers.
- Flask - A microframework based on Werkzeug, Jinja 2 and good intentions
- Bottle - A fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework
- web.py - A web framework for Python that is as simple as it is powerful
Framework Components
Standalone component for web development.
- Werkzeug - The Python WSGI Utility Library
- WebOb - WSGI request and response objects
Templating
Libraries and tools for templating.
- Jinja2 - A full featured template engine for Python
- Mako - Mako Templates for Python
Static Site Generators
Tools for pre-processing content to generate web pages.
- pelican - Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax
- Cactus - Static site generator for designers
- hyde - A Python Static Website Generator
Content Management System
Content management platforms.
- django CMS - The easy-to-use and developer-friendly CMS
- wagtail - A new Django content management system
- mezzanine - A content management platform built using the Django framework
- Plone - A robust, secure, entreprise level CMS
HTTP and Web Crawling
Libraries for working with HTTP and scraping websites.
- requests - Python HTTP Requests for Humans
- httpie - A command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement
- scrapy - A fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework
- pattern - Pattern is a web mining module for Python
- pyquery - A jquery-like library for python
- portia - Visual scraping for Scrapy
- Beautiful Soup - Designed for quick turnaround projects like screen-scraping
Email
Libraries for sending and parsing email.
Files
Libraries for file manipulation.
- Tablib - Pythonic Tabular Datasets
- q - Run SQL directly on CSV or TSV files
Feeds
Libraries for feeds parsing.
Dependency Injection
Libraries that implement the dependency injection design pattern.
- pinject - A pythonic dependency injection library
Image
Libraries for manipulating images.
- Pillow - Python Imaging Library (Fork)
Testing
Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.
- tox - Standardize testing in Python
- nose - nose is nicer testing for python
- pytest - A mature full-featured Python testing tool
- Huxley - A test-like system for catching visual regressions in Web applications
- faker - A Python package that generates fake data for you
- sqlmap - Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool
- buildbot - Python-based continuous integration testing framework
Documentation
Libraries for generating project documentation.
- Sphinx - Python documentation generator
Security
Libraries for security.
- itsdangerous - Various helpers to pass trusted data to untrusted environments
Code Analysis
Libraries and tools for analysing codebases.
- pep8 - Simple Python style checker in one Python file
Asset Management
Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.
- webassets - Asset management for Python web development.
Geolocation
Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.
- geopy - A Geocoding Toolbox for Python
Date and Time
Libraries for working with dates and times.
- arrow - Better dates & times for Python
Event
Libraries that are event-driven or implement non-blocking event loops.
- gevent - A coroutine-based Python networking library
Logging
Libraries for generating and working with log files.
- logbook - A cool logging replacement for Python
PDF
Libraries and software for working with PDF files.
ORM and Datamapping
Libraries that implement object-relational mapping or datamapping techniques.
- SQLAlchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper
- peewee - A small, expressive orm
NoSQL
Libraries for working with “NoSQL” backends.
- redis-py - Redis Python Client
- PyMongo - Python distribution containing tools for working with MongoDB
Queue
Libraries for working with event and task queues.
- Celery - Distributed Task Queue
- RQ - Simple job queues for Python backed by Redis
Search
Libraries and software for indexing and performing search queries on data.
- Mailpile - An experimental indexing and search engine for e-mail
Command Line
Libraries for building command line utilities.
- click - Python composable command line utility
- docopt - Pythonic command line arguments parser, that will make you smile
- clint - Python Command-line Application Tools
Authentication
Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.
- oauthlib - A generic implementation of the OAuth request-signing logic
- rauth - A Python library for OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0, and Ofly
Markup
Libraries for working with markup.
Text and Numbers
Libraries for parsing and manipulating text and numbers.
- NumPy - The fundamental package for scientific computing with Python
- TextBlob - Simple, Pythonic, text processing–Sentiment analysis
REST and API
Libraries and web tools for developing REST-ful APIs.
- eve - REST API framework powered by Flask, MongoDB and good intentions
- django-rest-framework - Awesome web-browseable Web APIs for Django
- sandman - Sandman “makes things REST”
Caching
Libraries for caching data.
- beaker - WSGI middleware for sessions and caching
Deployment
Libraries for deployment and IT automation.
- supervisor - Supervisor process control system for UNIX
- Gunicorn - A Python WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX
- ansible - A radically simple IT automation platform
- salt - Infrastructure automation and management system
- fabric - Simple, Pythonic remote execution and deployment