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AI & ML
- AI and Agents
- Deep Learning
- Machine Learning
- Natural Language Processing
- Computer Vision
- Recommender Systems
Web Development
- Web Frameworks
- Web APIs
- Web Servers
- WebSocket
- Template Engines
- Web Asset Management
- Authentication
- Admin Panels
- CMS
- Static Site Generators
HTTP & Scraping
Database & Storage
Data & Science
- Data Analysis
- Data Ingestion / ETL
- Data Validation
- Data Visualization
- Geolocation
- Science
- Quantum Computing
Developer Tools
- Algorithms and Design Patterns
- Interactive Interpreter
- Code Analysis
- Testing
- Debugging Tools
- Build Tools
- Documentation
DevOps
- DevOps Tools
- Distributed Computing
- Task Queues
- Messaging
- Job Schedulers
- Logging
- Network Virtualization
CLI & GUI
Text & Documents
Media
Python Language
- Implementations
- Built-in Classes Enhancement
- Functional Programming
- Asynchronous Programming
- Date and Time
Python Toolchain
Security
Other
AI & ML
Libraries for building AI applications, LLM integrations, and autonomous agents.
- Agent Skills
- django-ai-plugins
- Django backend agent skills for Django, DRF, Celery, and Django-specific code review.
- graphify
- Turn any folder of code, SQL schemas, docs, papers, images, or videos into a queryable knowledge graph.
- nuwa-skill
- Nuwa distills the thinking of anyone β let Musk, Naval, Munger, and Feynman work for you.
- sentry-skills
- Python-focused engineering skills for code review, debugging, and backend workflows.
- trailofbits-skills
- Python-friendly security skills for auditing, testing, and safer backend development.
- django-ai-plugins
- Orchestration
- ag2
- An open-source AgentOS for multi-agent orchestration and building agentic AI systems.
- autogen
- A programming framework for building agentic AI applications.
- bernstein
- A deterministic Python orchestrator for CLI coding agents (Claude Code, Codex, Gemini CLI, and 40+ more) with parallel git worktrees and an HMAC-signed audit chain.
- bindu
- A framework that wraps any agent handler with DID-based cryptographic identity, A2A JSON-RPC over HTTP, OAuth2 auth, x402 (USDC) payments, and a built-in operator inbox.
- bub
- A lightweight, hook-first Python framework for channel-native agents that live alongside people.
- crewai
- A framework for orchestrating role-playing autonomous AI agents for collaborative task solving.
- dspy
- A framework for programming, not prompting, language models.
- hermes-agent
- An adaptive AI agent framework that grows with you.
- langchain
- Building applications with LLMs through composability.
- langgraph
- Low-level orchestration framework for building stateful, long-running LLM agents.
- livetalking
- A framework for real time interactive streaming digital human.
- openai-agents
- OpenAI's framework for building and managing AI agents.
- OpenChronicle
- Open-source, local-first memory for any tool-capable LLM agent.
- promptise
- A framework for building end-to-end production-ready agentic systems, scalable & secure MCP's and autonomous agents.
- pydantic-ai
- A Python agent framework for building generative AI applications with structured schemas.
- smolagents
- A lightweight library to build agents and multi-agent workflows with minimal code.
- TradingAgents
- A multi-agents LLM financial trading framework.
- ag2
- Data Layer
- entroly
- An auditable context control plane that optimizes prompt context, stabilizes cache prefixes, and verifies answers locally with WITNESS.
- instructor
- A library for extracting structured data from LLMs, powered by Pydantic.
- llama-index
- A data framework for your LLM application.
- lumen
- An agent framework for conversational analysis of SQL, dataframe and multidimensional array data.
- mem0
- An intelligent memory layer for AI agents enabling personalized interactions.
- outlines
- Structured text generation for LLMs with JSON schema, regex, and grammar-constrained decoding.
- entroly
- Pre-trained Models and Inference
- diffusers
- A library that provides pre-trained diffusion models for generating and editing images, audio, and video.
- LiteLLM
- Call 100+ LLMs using OpenAI format.
- liter-llm
- A universal LLM API client with a Rust core, calling 142+ providers through a single OpenAI-compatible interface, with a built-in proxy and MCP server.
- mlx-lm
- Run and fine-tune large language models on Apple Silicon with MLX.
- sglang
- A high-performance serving framework for large language models and multimodal models.
- transformers
- A framework that lets you easily use pre-trained transformer models for NLP, vision, and audio tasks.
- unsloth
- A library for faster LLM fine-tuning and training with reduced memory usage.
- vllm
- A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs.
- diffusers
- Speech
- funasr
- Industrial-grade speech recognition toolkit with 170x realtime speed, 50+ languages, speaker diarization, and emotion detection.
- openai-whisper
- A general-purpose automatic speech recognition model trained on 680k hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data.
- SenseVoice
- A multilingual speech understanding model for speech recognition, language identification, emotion recognition, and audio event detection.
- vibevoice
- A family of open-source voice AI models from Microsoft for text-to-speech and long-form speech recognition.
- voxcpm
- A tokenizer-free text-to-speech foundation model for multilingual speech generation and voice cloning.
- funasr
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
- Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration.
- pytorch-lightning
- Deep learning framework to train, deploy, and ship AI products Lightning fast.
- stable-baselines3
- PyTorch implementations of Stable Baselines (deep) reinforcement learning algorithms.
- tensorflow
- The most popular Deep Learning framework created by Google.
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.
- scikit-lego
- A collection of lego bricks for scikit-learn pipelines.
- spark.ml
- Apache Spark's scalable Machine Learning library for distributed computing.
- TabGAN
- Synthetic tabular data generation using GANs, Diffusion Models, and LLMs.
- timesfm
- A pretrained foundation model from Google Research for time-series forecasting.
- xgboost
- A scalable, portable, and distributed gradient boosting library.
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.
- gensim
- Chinese
Libraries for Computer Vision.
- easyocr
- Ready-to-use OCR with 40+ languages supported.
- fiftyone
- The open-source tool for building high-quality datasets and computer vision models.
- kornia
- Open Source Differentiable Computer Vision Library for PyTorch.
- opencv
- Open Source Computer Vision Library.
- pytesseract
- A wrapper for Google Tesseract OCR
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- ultralytics
- Ultralytics YOLO for object detection, segmentation, pose estimation, and classification with state-of-the-art accuracy and speed.
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 Development
Traditional full stack web frameworks. Also see Web APIs.
- Synchronous
- bottle
- A fast and simple micro-framework distributed as a single file with no dependencies.
- django
- The most popular web framework in Python.
- flask
- A microframework for Python.
- pyramid
- A small, fast, down-to-earth, open source Python web framework.
- fasthtml
- The fastest way to create an HTML app.
- masonite
- The modern and developer centric Python web framework.
- bottle
- 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.
- litestar
Libraries for building RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
- Django
- django-modern-rest
- Modern REST with speed, types, async,
msgspec,pydanticand other goodies! - django-ninja
- Fast, Django REST framework based on type hints and Pydantic.
- django-rest-framework
- A powerful and flexible toolkit to build web APIs.
- strawberry-django
- Strawberry GraphQL integration with Django.
- django-modern-rest
- Flask
- apiflask
- A lightweight Python web API framework based on Flask and Marshmallow.
- apiflask
- 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 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.
- connexion
ASGI and WSGI compatible web servers.
- ASGI
- daphne
- An HTTP, HTTP/2 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.
- daphne
- WSGI
- RPC
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.
- picows
- Fastest WebSocket clients and servers with a frame level interface for the most demanding use-cases.
- websockets
- A library for building WebSocket servers and clients with a focus on correctness and simplicity.
Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.
- jinja
- A modern and designer friendly templating language.
- mako
- Hyperfast and lightweight templating for the Python platform.
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.
Libraries for implementing authentication schemes.
- OAuth
- authlib
- A comprehensive library for building OAuth, OpenID Connect, and JWT/JWS/JWE/JWK/JWA.
- 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.
- authlib
- JWT
- pyjwt
- JSON Web Token implementation in Python.
- pyjwt
- Permissions
- django-guardian
- Implementation of per-object permissions for Django.
- django-rules
- A tiny but powerful app providing object-level permissions to Django, without requiring a database.
- django-guardian
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.
- flower
- Real-time monitor and web admin for Celery.
- 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).
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 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
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.
- httptap
- Dissects an HTTP request into DNS, TCP, TLS, wait, and transfer phases and renders the timings as a waterfall.
- 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.
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.
- crawlberg
- A high-performance web crawling engine with a Rust core, headless-browser fallback, and built-in robots.txt and sitemap parsing.
- mechanicalsoup
- A Python library for automating interaction with websites.
- scrapy
- A fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework.
- website-downloader
- A modern wget --mirror / HTTrack alternative that turns whole websites into browsable offline copies.
- browser-use
- 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.
- feedparser
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
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.
- django.db.models
- 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.
- beanie
Libraries for connecting and operating databases.
- MySQL - awesome-mysql
- mysqlclient
- MySQL connector with Python 3 support (mysql-python fork).
- pymysql
- A pure Python MySQL driver compatible to mysql-python.
- mysqlclient
- PostgreSQL - awesome-postgres
- psycopg
- The most popular PostgreSQL adapter for Python.
- psycopg
- SQLite - awesome-sqlite
- sqlite-utils
- Python CLI utility and library for manipulating SQLite databases.
- sqlite3 - (Python standard library) SQLite interface compliant with DB-API 2.0.
- sqlite-utils
- Other Relational Databases
- clickhouse-driver
- Python driver with native interface for ClickHouse.
- mssql-python
- Official Microsoft driver for SQL Server and Azure SQL, built on ODBC for high performance and low memory usage.
- clickhouse-driver
- NoSQL Databases
- cassandra-driver
- The Python Driver for Apache Cassandra.
- django-mongodb-backend
- Official MongoDB database backend for Django.
- pymongo
- The official Python client for MongoDB.
- redis-py
- The Python client for Redis.
- cassandra-driver
Databases implemented in Python.
- chdb
- In-process OLAP SQL engine with the full ClickHouse dialect, zero-copy pandas/Arrow interop, and federation to remote ClickHouse clusters via
remoteSecure(). - 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.
- zvec
- An embedded vector database for on-device RAG and edge AI, the SQLite of vector databases.
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.
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.
- pysolr
- A lightweight Python wrapper for Apache Solr.
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.
- msgspec
- A fast serialization and validation library with built-in support for JSON, MessagePack, YAML, and TOML.
- orjson
- Fast, correct JSON library.
Data & Science
Libraries for data analysis.
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aws-sdk-pandas
- Pandas on AWS.
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data-profiling
- Generate detailed data profiling reports for pandas DataFrames.
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datasette
- An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data.
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desbordante
- An open source data profiler for complex pattern discovery.
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ibis
- A portable Python dataframe library with a single API for 20+ backends.
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modin
- A drop-in pandas replacement that scales workflows by changing a single line of code.
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pandas
- A library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools.
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pathway
- Real-time data processing framework for Python with reactive dataflows.
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percentify
- Exploratory stats and data-quality diagnostics/profiler, that supports both pandas and Polars DataFrames inputs.
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polars
- A fast DataFrame library implemented in Rust with a Python API.
Libraries for data extraction, transformation, and loading pipelines across multiple sources and destinations.
- General
- dlt
- A Python library for building data pipelines with automatic schema inference, incremental loading, and support for multiple sources and destinations.
- dlt
- 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.
- lumibot
- Algorithmic trading framework for backtesting and live deployment across stocks, options, crypto, futures, and forex.
- openbb
- A financial data platform for analysts, quants and AI agents.
- yfinance
- Easy Pythonic way to download market and financial data from Yahoo Finance.
- akshare
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.
- voluptuous
- A Python data validation library primarily intended for validating data from untrusted sources.
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.
- altair
- Specialized
- cartopy
- A cartographic python library with matplotlib support.
- pygraphviz
- Python interface to Graphviz.
- cartopy
- Dashboards and Apps
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 that is part of Django.
- geojson
- Python bindings and utilities for GeoJSON.
- geopandas
- Python tools for geographic data (GeoSeries/GeoDataFrame) built on pandas.
- geopy
- Python Geocoding Toolbox.
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.
- numba
- 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.
- biopython
- 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.
- astropy
- Simulation and Modeling
- mesa
- An agent-based modeling framework for building, analyzing, and visualizing complex system simulations.
- 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.
- mesa
- Other
Libraries for quantum computing.
- Cirq
β A Google-developed framework focused on hardware-aware quantum circuit design for NISQ devices.
- pennylane
β A hybrid quantum-classical machine learning library with automatic differentiation support.
- qiskit
β An IBM-backed quantum SDK for building, simulating, and running circuits on real quantum hardware.
- qutip
- Quantum Toolbox in Python.
Developer Tools
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.
- algorithms
- Design Patterns
- python-patterns
- A collection of design patterns in Python.
- transitions
- A lightweight, object-oriented finite state machine implementation.
- python-patterns
Interactive Python interpreters (REPL).
- jupyter
- A rich toolkit to help you make the most out of using Python interactively.
- marimo
- Transform data and train models, feels like a next-gen notebook, stored as Git-friendly Python.
- ptpython
- Advanced Python REPL built on top of the python-prompt-toolkit
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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.
- repowise
- Codebase intelligence that indexes repos into dependency graphs, git history, and auto-generated docs with dead code detection.
- vulture
- A tool for finding and analyzing dead Python code.
- code2flow
- Code Linters
- Code Formatters
- Refactoring
- rope
- Rope is a python refactoring library.
- rope
- Type Checkers - awesome-python-typing
- 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.
- monkeytype
Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data. Also see awesome-python-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.
- hypothesis
- Test Runners
- GUI / Web Testing
- locust
- Scalable user load testing tool written in Python.
- playwright-python
- 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.
- locust
- 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.
- respx
- Mock HTTPX with awesome request patterns and response side effects.
- vcrpy
- Record and replay HTTP interactions on your tests.
- freezegun
- Object Factories
- factory_boy
- A test fixtures replacement for Python.
- polyfactory
- mock data generation library with support to classes (continuation of
pydantic-factories)
- factory_boy
- Code Coverage
- coverage
- Code coverage measurement.
- coverage
- Fake Data
Libraries for debugging code.
- pdb-like 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.
- manhole
- Profiler
- 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.
- django-debug-toolbar
Compile software from source code.
- bitbake
- A make-like build tool for embedded Linux.
- doit
- A task runner and build tool.
- 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.
- scons
- A software construction tool.
Libraries for generating project documentation.
- diagrams
- Diagram as Code.
- mkdocs
- Markdown friendly documentation generator.
- pdoc
- Epydoc replacement to auto generate API documentation for Python libraries.
- sphinx
- Python Documentation generator.
DevOps
Software and libraries for DevOps.
- Cloud Providers
- 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.
- ansible
- 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.
- psutil
- Other
- borg
- A deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption.
- chaostoolkit
- A Chaos Engineering toolkit & Orchestration for Developers.
- kubesdk
- A modern async-first Kubernetes client and API model generator.
- pre-commit
- A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.
- borg
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.
- dask
Libraries for working with task queues.
- celery
- An asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.
- dramatiq
- A fast and reliable background task processing library for Python 3.
- huey
- Little multi-threaded task queue.
- rq
- Simple job queues for Python.
- taskiq
- Distributed task queue with native asyncio support and pluggable brokers.
Libraries for working with message brokers and event streaming.
- faststream
- A framework for building asynchronous services over Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, MQTT and Redis.
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.
Libraries for generating and working with logs.
- logfmter
- A standard library compatible logfmt formatter.
- logging - (Python standard library) Logging facility for Python.
- loguru
- Library which aims to bring enjoyable logging in Python.
- structlog
- Structured logging made easy.
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
Libraries for building command-line applications.
- CLI 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
RichHandlerlog 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.
- alive-progress
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.
- kaydet
- Queryable personal database and terminal diary with SQLite search, tags, metadata, and AI integration via MCP.
- 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.
- cookiecutter
- 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.
- httpie
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.
- tkdesigner
- Generates Tkinter interfaces from Figma designs using the Figma API.
- 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.
- customtkinter
- Web-based
- buridan/ui
- Composable, themeable components designed for Reflex. Extend, override, and ship without fighting the framework. Open source.
- 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.
- buridan/ui
- Terminal
- Wrappers
- gooey
- Turn command line programs into a full GUI application with one line.
- gooey
Text & Documents
Libraries for parsing and manipulating plain texts.
- General
- babel
- An internationalization library for Python.
- chardet
- Python 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 (ζΌ’ε) to pinyin (ζΌι³).
- 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.
- babel
- Unique identifiers
- Parser
- parsy
- Easy, generic parser combinator library for creating parsers.
- pygments
- A generic syntax highlighter.
- pyparsing
- A general purpose framework for generating parsers.
- python-nameparser
- Parsing human names into their individual components.
- python-phonenumbers
- Parsing, formatting, storing and validating international phone numbers.
- python-user-agents
- Browser user agent parser.
- sqlparse
- A non-validating SQL parser.
- tree-sitter-language-pack
- A comprehensive collection of tree-sitter parsers for 300+ languages, distributed as prebuilt wheels.
- parsy
Libraries for working with HTML and XML.
- beautifulsoup - Providing Pythonic idioms for iterating, searching, and modifying HTML or XML.
- html-to-markdown
- A fast, CommonMark-compliant HTML to Markdown converter with a Rust core, tolerant of malformed HTML.
- 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.
- tinycss2
- A low-level CSS parser and generator written in Python.
- xmltodict
- Working with XML feel like you are working with JSON.
Libraries for parsing and manipulating specific text formats.
- General
- docling
- Library for converting documents into structured data.
- xberg
- High-performance document intelligence library with a Rust core, extracting text, tables, and metadata from 97+ 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.
- docling
- MS 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.
- docxtpl
- 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.
- pdf_oxide
- Markdown
- markdown-it-py
- Markdown parser with 100% CommonMark support, extensions, and syntax plugins.
- markdown
- A Python implementation of John Gruberβs Markdown.
- markitdown
- Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown.
- mistune
- Fastest and full featured pure Python parsers of Markdown.
- markdown-it-py
- Data Formats
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
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.
Libraries for manipulating audio, video, and their metadata.
- Audio
- birdnet
- Deep learning framework for acoustic species detection; identifies bird species from audio recordings using TensorFlow.
- gtts
- Python library and CLI tool for converting text to speech using Google Translate TTS.
- KittenTTS
- Lightweight ONNX text-to-speech library with small CPU-friendly models.
- 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.
- birdnet
- Video
- 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.
- beets
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 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.
- pyodide
- Python distribution for the browser and Node.js based on WebAssembly.
- pypy
- A very fast and compliant implementation of the Python language.
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.
- uuid-utils
- A fast, Rust-backed drop-in replacement for Python's built-in
uuidmodule, supporting RFC 9562 (UUIDv6, UUIDv7, and UUIDv8).
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.
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.
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
Libraries for Python version and virtual environment management.
- KillPy
- Analyze, detect, and clean unused Python environments and pipx packages.
- pyenv
- Simple Python version management.
- pyenv-win
- Pyenv for Windows.
- uv
- An extremely fast Python version, package and project manager, written in Rust.
- virtualenv
- A tool to create isolated Python environments.
Libraries for package and dependency management.
- conda
- Cross-platform, Python-agnostic binary package manager.
- hatch
- Modern, extensible Python project manager for environments, builds, and publishing.
- pip
- The package installer for Python.
- pipx
- Install and Run Python Applications in Isolated Environments. Like
npxin Node.js. - poetry
- Python dependency management and packaging made easy.
- uv
- An extremely fast Python version, package and project manager, written in Rust.
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).
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.
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
.envfile and sets them as environment variables.
Security
- 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.
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.
Libraries for application-layer web security.
- secure
- HTTP security headers for Python web applications with ASGI and WSGI middleware.
Other
Libraries for programming with hardware.
- bleak
- A cross platform Bluetooth Low Energy Client for Python using asyncio.
- jumpstarter
- A hardware-in-the-loop testing framework with a Python client library for automated testing on real and virtual hardware.
- pynput
- A library to control and monitor input devices.
- synology-api
- Python wrapper for Synology NAS APIs: Surveillance Station, File Station, Download Station, Docker, and 50+ other endpoints.
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.
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.
Where to discover learning resources or new Python libraries.
- Python Developer Tooling Handbook - Comprehensive guide to modern Python developer tools covering package management, linting, type checking, testing, and more.
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