Awesome Python

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

Categories

AI & ML

Web Development

HTTP & Scraping

Database & Storage

Data & Science

Developer Tools

DevOps

CLI & GUI

Text & Documents

Multimedia

Cryptography & Security

OS & System

Other

AI & ML

AI and Agents

Frameworks and tools for building AI agents.

agno - A lightweight library for building multi-modal Agents.
autogen - A framework for building multi-agent conversational systems.
browser-use - Make websites accessible for AI agents with easy browser automation.
camel - A communicative agents framework for LLM role-playing scenarios.
crewai - Framework for orchestrating role-playing, autonomous AI agents.
dspy - The framework for programming—not prompting—foundation models.
haystack - LLM orchestration framework to build customizable, production-ready LLM applications.
langchain - Building applications with LLMs through composability.
litellm - A library for calling Anthropic, Azure, Huggingface, Replicate API.
lollms-webui - Lord of Large Language Multimodal Systems Web User Interface.
mem0 - The memory layer for AI agents.
metagpt - The multi-agent framework assigns different roles to GPTs to form a collaborative software entity.
modelscope-agent - An agent framework connecting models in ModelScope with the world.
openai-agents-sdk - A lightweight, powerful framework for multi-agent workflows.
pydantic-ai - Agent framework built on top of Pydantic for production-grade Generative AI applications.
semantic-kernel - Integrate cutting-edge LLM technology quickly and easily.
smolagents - An extremely simple library that unleashes language models to tackle complex tasks.
superagi - A dev-first open source autonomous AI agent framework.

Deep Learning

Frameworks for neural networks and deep learning.

caffe - A fast open framework made with expression, speed and modularity in mind.
keras - A high-level neural networks library and capable of running on top of either TensorFlow or Theano.
pytorch - Tensors and Dynamic neural networks in Python with strong GPU acceleration.
- ignite - High-level library to help with training neural networks in PyTorch.
tensorflow - The most popular Deep Learning framework created by Google.
- tensorboard - TensorFlow's Visualization Toolkit.
theano - A library for fast numerical computation.

Machine Learning

Libraries for Machine Learning.

gym - A toolkit for developing and comparing reinforcement learning algorithms.
h2o - Open Source Fast Scalable Machine Learning Platform.
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 SQL queries.
nni - An open source AutoML toolkit for automate machine learning lifecycle.
scikit-learn - The most popular Python library for Machine Learning.
spark - Apache Spark Python API.
statsmodels - Statistical modeling and econometrics in Python.
xgboost - A scalable, portable, and distributed gradient boosting library.

Natural Language Processing

Libraries for working with human languages.

Text Processing
- flair - Very simple framework for state-of-the-art NLP.
- gensim - Topic Modelling for humans.
- nltk - A leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data.
- pattern - A web mining module for the Python.
- polyglot - Natural language pipeline supporting hundreds of languages.
- spacy - Industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) with Python and Cython.
- stanford-corenlp - A Python wrapper for Stanford CoreNLP.
- stanza - The Stanford NLP Group's official Python library, supporting 60+ languages.
- textdistance - Compute distance between sequences with 30+ algorithms.
- texthero - Text preprocessing, representation and visualization.
- textblob - Providing a consistent API for diving into common natural language processing (NLP) tasks.
Chinese Text Processing
- jieba - The most popular Chinese text segmentation library.
- pkuseg-python - A toolkit for Chinese word segmentation in various domains.
- snownlp - A library for processing Chinese text.
- funNLP - A collection of NLP tools and datasets.

Computer Vision

Libraries for Computer Vision.

easyocr - Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ supported languages.
kornia - Open Source Differentiable Computer Vision Library for PyTorch.
opencv - Open Source Computer Vision Library.
pytesseract - A wrapper for Google Tesseract-OCR.
supervision - Reusable computer vision tools.

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.
libffm - A library for Field-aware Factorization Machine (FFM).
lightfm - A Python implementation of a number of popular recommendation algorithms.
spotlight - Deep recommender models using PyTorch.
surprise - A Python scikit for building and analyzing recommender systems.
tensorrec - A Recommendation Engine Framework in TensorFlow.

Web Development

Web Frameworks

Traditional full stack web frameworks. Also see RESTful API.

Synchronous
- django - The most popular web framework in Python.
  - awesome-django
- flask - A microframework for Python.
  - awesome-flask
- pyramid - A small, fast, down-to-earth, open source Python web framework.
  - awesome-pyramid
- masonite - The modern and developer centric Python web framework.
Asynchronous
- sanic - A Python 3.6+ web server and web framework that's written to go fast.
- tornado - A Python web framework and asynchronous networking library.
- fastapi - A modern, fast, web framework for building APIs with Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.

Web APIs

Libraries for building web APIs.

django-rest-framework - A powerful and flexible toolkit to build web APIs.
eve - REST API framework powered by Flask, MongoDB and good intentions.
falcon - A high-performance Python framework for building cloud APIs and web app backends.
fastapi - A modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs.
flask-restful - Quickly building REST APIs for Flask.
hug - A Python 3 framework for cleanly exposing APIs.
sandman2 - Automated REST APIs for existing database-driven systems.
connexion - Swagger/OpenAPI First framework for Python on top of Flask with automatic endpoint validation.
ninja - Fast, async-ready, OpenAPI-compliant framework for building APIs with Django and Python type hints.

Web Servers

HTTP servers.

gunicorn - Pre-forked, porting to Gevent and others.
uvicorn - A lightning-fast ASGI server.
waitress - Multi-threaded, powers Pyramid.

WebSocket

Libraries for working with WebSocket.

autobahn-python - WebSocket & WAMP for Python on Twisted and asyncio.
channels - Developer-friendly asynchronous support for Django.
websockets - A library for building WebSocket servers and clients focusing on correctness and simplicity.

Template Engines

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.

jinja2 - A modern and designer friendly templating language.
mako - Hyperfast and lightweight templating for the Python platform.
marko - A markdown parser with high extensibility.

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-pipeline - An asset packaging library for Django.
django-storages - A collection of custom storage backends for Django.
fanstatic - Packages, optimizes, and serves static file dependencies as Python packages.
fileconveyor - A daemon to detect and sync files to CDNs, S3 and FTP.
flask-assets - Helps you integrate webassets into your Flask app.
webassets - Bundles, optimizes, and manages unique cache-busting URLs for static resources.

Authentication

Libraries for implementing authentications 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.
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).

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.
  - awesome-sqlalchemy
- 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.

MySQL - awesome-mysql
- mysqlclient - MySQL connector with Python 3 support (mysql-python fork).
- pymysql - A pure Python MySQL driver compatible to mysql-python.
PostgreSQL - awesome-postgres
- psycopg - The most popular PostgreSQL adapter for Python.
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.
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.
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.

Database

Databases implemented in Python.

chromadb - An open-source embedding database for building AI applications with embeddings.
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.

beaker - A WSGI middleware library for sessions and caching.
dogpile.cache - dogpile.cache is a next generation replacement for Beaker made by the same authors.
django-cache-machine - Automatic caching and invalidation for Django models.
django-cacheops - A slick ORM cache with automatic granular event-driven invalidation.
pymemcache - A comprehensive, fast, pure-Python memcached client.
redis-py - The Python client for Redis.
regional - Regional is a Python caching library.

Search

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

elasticsearch-py - The official low-level Python client for Elasticsearch.
elasticsearch-dsl-py - The official high-level Python client for Elasticsearch.
django-haystack - Modular search for Django.
whoosh - A fast, pure Python search engine library.

Serialization

Libraries for serializing complex data types.

marshmallow - A lightweight library for converting complex objects to and from simple Python datatypes.
pysimdjson - A Python bindings for simdjson.
python-rapidjson - A Python wrapper around RapidJSON.
ultrajson - Fast JSON decoder and encoder written in C with Python bindings.

Data & Science

Data Analysis

Libraries for data analyzing.

pandas - Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python.
polars - A blazingly fast DataFrame library.
optimus - Agile Data Science Workflows made easy with PySpark.

Data Validation

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

cerberus - A lightweight and extensible data validation library.
colander - Validating and deserializing data obtained via XML, JSON, an HTML Form post.
jsonschema - An implementation of JSON Schema for Python.
schema - A library for validating Python data structures.
schematics - Data Structure Validation.
voluptuous - A Python data validation library.
pydantic - Data validation using Python type hints.

Data Visualization

Libraries for visualizing data.

altair - Declarative statistical visualization library for Python.
bokeh - Interactive Web Plotting for Python.
bqplot - Interactive Plotting Library for the Jupyter Notebook.
cartopy - A cartographic python library with matplotlib support.
diagrams - Diagram as Code.
matplotlib - A Python 2D plotting library.
plotly - Collaborative, interactive, publication-quality graphs.
pygal - A Python SVG Charts Creator.
pygraphviz - Python interface to Graphviz.
pyqtgraph - Interactive and realtime 2D/3D/Image plotting and science/engineering widgets.
seaborn - Statistical data visualization using Matplotlib.
vispy - High-performance scientific visualization based on OpenGL.

Geolocation

Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

django-countries - A Django app that provides country choices for use with forms, flag icons static files, and a country field for models.
geodjango - A world-class geographic web framework.
geopy - Python Geocoding Toolbox.
gpxpy - A library for parsing and creating GPX files.
shapely - Manipulation and analysis of geometric objects.

Science

Libraries for scientific computing.

astropy - A community Python library for Astronomy.
biopython - Python tools for computational molecular biology.
cclib - Parsers and algorithms for computational chemistry logfiles.
nibabel - Provides read / write access to some common medical and neuroimaging file formats.
nilearn - Machine learning for Neuro-Imaging in Python.
open-babel - A chemical toolbox designed to speak the many languages of chemical data.
pymatgen - A robust, open-source Python library for materials analysis.
rdkit - Cheminformatics and Machine-Learning Software.
statsmodels - Statistical modeling and econometrics in Python.
sympy - A Python library for symbolic mathematics.

Quantum Computing

Libraries for Quantum Computing.

cirq - A python framework for creating, editing, and invoking Noisy Intermediate Scale Quantum (NISQ) circuits.
pennylane - A cross-platform Python library for differentiable programming of quantum computers.
pyquil - A Python library for quantum programming using Quil.
qiskit - An open-source framework for working with noisy quantum computers at the level of pulses, circuits, and algorithms.

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 in Python.
- python-ds - A collection of data structure and algorithms for coding interviews.
- sortedcontainers - Fast and pure-Python implementation of sorted collections.
- thealgorithms - All Algorithms implemented in Python.
Design Patterns
- pypattyrn - A simple yet effective library for implementing common design patterns.
- python-patterns - A collection of design patterns in Python.
- transitions - A lightweight, object-oriented finite state machine implementation in Python.

Interactive Interpreter

Interactive Python interpreters (REPL).

bpython - A fancy interface to the Python interpreter.
ipython - A rich toolkit to help you make the most out of using Python interactively.
- awesome-jupyter
ptpython - Advanced Python REPL built on top of the python-prompt-toolkit.

Code Analysis

Tools of static analysis, linters and code quality checkers.

flake8 - A wrapper around pyflakes, pycodestyle and McCabe.
- awesome-flake8-extensions
pylint - A fully customizable source code analyzer.
pyflakes - A simple program which checks Python source files for errors.
mypy - Check variable types during compile time.
pycodestyle - (formerly pep8) - A tool to check your Python code against some of the style conventions in PEP 8.
pydocstyle - A static analysis tool for checking compliance with Python docstring conventions.
radon - A tool that computes various metrics from the source code.
vulture - A tool for finding and analysing dead Python code.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.

Testing Frameworks
- hypothesis - Hypothesis is an advanced Quickcheck style property based testing library.
- nose2 - The successor to nose, based on unittest2.
- pytest - A mature full-featured Python testing tool.
  - awesome-pytest
- robot - A generic test automation framework.
- unittest - (Python standard library) Unit testing framework.
Test Runners
- green - A clean, colorful test runner.
- nose2 - The successor to nose, based on unittest2.
- 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 automated testing and scraping library.
- pyautogui - PyAutoGUI is a cross-platform GUI automation Python module for human beings.
- selenium - Python bindings for Selenium WebDriver.
- splinter - Open source tool for testing web applications.
Mock
- doublex - Powerful test doubles framework for Python.
- freezegun - Travel through time by mocking the datetime module.
- httmock - A mocking library for requests for Python 2.6+ and 3.2+.
- httpretty - HTTP request mock tool for Python.
- moto - A library that allows you to easily mock out tests based on AWS Infrastructure.
- 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.
- mixer - Another fixtures replacement. Supported Django, Flask, SQLAlchemy, Peewee and etc.
- model_bakery - Object factory for Django (rename of model_mommy).
Code Coverage
- coverage - Code coverage measurement for Python.
Fake Data
- faker - A Python package that generates fake data.
- mimesis - A high performance fake data generator.
- radar - Generate random datetime / time.

Debugging Tools

Libraries for debugging code.

pdb-like Debugger
- ipdb - IPython-enabled pdb.
- pdb++ - A better pdb, drop in replacement for pdb.
- pudb - A full-screen, console-based Python debugger.
Tracing
- manhole - Debugging UNIX socket connections and present all threads and waitress stacks and an interactive prompt.
- pyringe - Debugger capable of attaching to and injecting code into Python processes.
- python-hunter - A flexible code tracing toolkit.
Profiler
- line_profiler - Line-by-line profiling.
- memory_profiler - Monitor Memory usage of Python code.
- py-spy - A sampling profiler for Python programs.
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.
- pyelftools - Parsing and analyzing ELF files and DWARF debugging information.

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.
- awesome-sphinxdoc
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.
SSH-style Deployment
- fabric - A simple, Pythonic tool for remote execution and deployment.
- cuisine - Chef-like functionality for Fabric.
Process Management
- supervisor - A Process Control System.
Monitoring
- psutil - A cross-platform process and system utilities module.
Backup
- borgbackup - A deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption.

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.
- mrjob - Run MapReduce jobs on Hadoop or Amazon Web Services.
- prefect - A modern workflow orchestration framework.
- ray - A system for parallel and distributed Python that unifies the ML ecosystem.
- spark - Apache Spark Python API.
Stream Processing
- faust - A stream processing library, porting the ideas from Kafka Streams to Python.
- streamparse - Run Python code against real-time streams of data via Apache Storm.

Task Queues

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.
mrq - A distributed worker task queue in Python using Redis & gevent.
rq - Simple job queues for Python.

Job Schedulers

Libraries for scheduling jobs.

apscheduler - Another Python Scheduler.
django-celery-beat - A periodic task module for Celery.
schedule - Python job scheduling for humans.

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with logs.

logbook - Logging replacement for Python.
loguru - Library which aims to bring enjoyable logging in Python.
pyzmq - A Python interface to ZeroMQ.
structlog - Structured Logging for Python.
eliot - Logging for complex and distributed systems.

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.
pox - A Python-based SDN control applications, such as OpenFlow SDN controllers.

CLI & GUI

CLI Development

Libraries for building command-line application.

cement - CLI Application Framework for Python.
click - A package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way.
cliff - A framework for creating command-line programs with multi-level commands.
docopt - Pythonic command line arguments parser.
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.

CLI 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.
- structkit - A YAML-first project scaffolding tool with remote content fetching (GitHub, S3, GCS, HTTP) and MCP integration for AI-native workflows.
- 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.

curses - Built-in wrapper for ncurses used to create terminal GUI applications.
dearpygui - A Simple to use (but powerful) GUI framework for Python.
eel - A little library for making simple Electron-like offline HTML/JS GUI apps.
flexx - Write desktop and web apps in pure Python.
kivy - Open source software for creating NUI applications.
pyglet - A cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python.
pygame - A set of Python modules designed for writing games.
pyqt - Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework.
pyqtgraph - Interactive and realtime 2D/3D/Image plotting and science/engineering widgets.
tkinter - Tkinter is Python's de-facto standard GUI package.
toga - A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit.
wxpython - A blending of the wxWidgets C++ class library with the Python.

Text & Documents

Text Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating plain texts.

General
- 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.
- fuzzywuzzy - Fuzzy String Matching.
- Levenshtein - Fast computation of Levenshtein distance and string similarity.
- shortuuid - A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs.
- umalqurra - Date Format for Arabic letters.
- unidecode - ASCII transliterations of Unicode text.
Slugify
- awesome-slugify - A Python slugify library that can preserve unicode.
- python-slugify - A Python slugify library that translates unicode to ASCII.
- unicode-slugify - A slugifier that generates unicode slugs with Django as a dependency.
Unique identifiers
- hashids - Implementation of hashids in Python.
- shortuuid - A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs.
Parser
- ply - Implementation of lex and yacc parsing tools for Python.
- 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.

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.
html5lib - A standards-compliant library for parsing and serializing HTML documents and fragments.
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.
untangle - Converts XML documents to Python objects for easy access.
xmldataset - Simple XML Parsing.
xmltodict - Working with XML feel like you are working with JSON.

PDF

Libraries and software for working with PDF files.

pdfminer.six - Pdfminer.six is a community maintained fork of the original PDFMiner.
pypdf - A pure-python PDF library capable of splitting, merging 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.

Office Documents

Libraries for parsing and modifying office documents.

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.
unoconv - Convert between any document format supported by LibreOffice/OpenOffice.
xlrd - Library for developers to extract data from Microsoft Excel spreadsheet 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.
xlwt - Library to write data and formatting information to older Excel files.

Markdown

Libraries for working with Markdown.

markdown - Python implementation of John Gruber's Markdown.
markdown-it-py - Markdown parser with 100% CommonMark support, extensions, syntax plugins and high performance.
marko - A markdown parser with high extensibility.
mistune - Fastest and yet powerful Python Markdown parser.
pymarkdown - Markdown linter/formatter.

Multimedia

Audio

Libraries for manipulating audio and its metadata.

audioread - Cross-library audio decoding.
dejavu - Audio fingerprinting and recognition.
librosa - Python library for audio and music analysis.
mutagen - A Python module to handle audio metadata.
pyaudio - PyAudio provides Python bindings for PortAudio.
pydub - Manipulate audio with a simple and easy high level interface.
pyechonest - Python client for the Echo Nest API.
tinytag - Library for reading music meta data of audio files.

Image Processing

Libraries for manipulating images.

imgaug - Image augmentation for machine learning experiments.
pillow - The friendly PIL fork.
python-barcode - Create barcodes in Python with no extra dependencies.
pymatting - A library for alpha matting.
python-qrcode - A pure Python QR Code generator.
quads - Computer art based on quadtrees.
scikit-image - A collection of algorithms for 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.

Video

Libraries for manipulating video and GIFs.

moviepy - A module for script-based movie editing with many formats.
scikit-video - Video processing routines for SciPy.
vidgear - Most Powerful multi-threaded Video Processing framework.

Cryptography & Security

Cryptography

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

Security

Tools and libraries for security

bandit - A tool designed to find common security issues in Python code.
sqlmap - Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool.

OS & System

OS

Libraries that allow you to access specific functionality of the operating system.

barman - Backup and recovery manager for PostgreSQL.
opsy - A Flask app which enables cross-environment monitoring data aggregation.
pywin32 - Python Extensions for Windows.
systemd - Python bindings for systemd facilities, including journald and login.

Files

Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.

mimetypes - (Python standard library) Map filenames to MIME types.
path - A module wrapper for os.path.
pathlib - (Python standard library) An cross-platform, object-oriented path library.
pathspec - A utility library for gitignore style pattern matching of file paths.
watchdog - API and shell utilities to monitor file system events.
zxpy - Run shell commands from within Python files.

Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

arrow - A Python library that offers a sensible and human-friendly approach to creating, manipulating, formatting and converting dates, times and timestamps.
dateutil - Extensions to the standard Python datetime module.
moment - A Python library for dealing with dates/times. Inspired by Moment.js.
pendulum - Python datetimes made easy.
pytz - World timezone definitions, modern and historical.
when.py - Providing user-friendly functions to help perform common date and time actions.

Internationalization

Libraries for working with i18n.

babel - An integrated collection of utilities that assist in internationalizing and localizing Python applications.
pyicu - A wrapper of International Components for Unicode C++ library (ICU).

Compatibility

Libraries for migrating from Python 2 to 3.

modernize - Modernizes Python code for eventual Python 3 migration.
six - Python 2 and 3 compatibility utilities.

Event

Pythonic event system.

blinker - A fast Python in-process signal/event dispatching system.
kombu - A message queue library for Python.
pyinotify - A module for monitoring filesystems events on Linux systems based on inotify kernel subsystem.
pymitter - A small Python port of the Node.js EventEmitter.
python-socketio - A Socket.IO server implemented in Python.
zope.event - An event publishing system for Python.

Process

Libraries for starting and communicating with OS processes.

dagger - An engine to run your pipelines in containers.
delegator.py - Subprocesses for Humans 2.0.
sarge - Yet another wrapper for subprocess.
sh - A full-fledged subprocess replacement for Python.

Concurrency and Parallelism

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

concurrent.futures - (Python standard library) A high-level interface for asynchronously executing callables.
eventlet - Asynchronous framework with WSGI support.
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.