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Projects
AI & ML
AI and Agents
Libraries for building AI applications, LLM integrations, and autonomous agents.
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django-ai-plugins - Django backend agent skills for Django, DRF, Celery, and Django-specific code review.
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graphify - Turn any folder of code, SQL schemas, docs, papers, images, or videos into a queryable knowledge graph.
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nuwa-skill - Nuwa distills the thinking of anyone — let Musk, Naval, Munger, and Feynman work for you.
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sentry-skills - Python-focused engineering skills for code review, debugging, and backend workflows.
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trailofbits-skills - Python-friendly security skills for auditing, testing, and safer backend development.
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ag2 - An open-source AgentOS for multi-agent orchestration and building agentic AI systems.
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autogen - A programming framework for building agentic AI applications.
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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.
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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.
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bub - A lightweight, hook-first Python framework for channel-native agents that live alongside people.
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crewai - A framework for orchestrating role-playing autonomous AI agents for collaborative task solving.
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dspy - A framework for programming, not prompting, language models.
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hermes-agent - An adaptive AI agent framework that grows with you.
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langchain - Building applications with LLMs through composability.
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langgraph - Low-level orchestration framework for building stateful, long-running LLM agents.
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livetalking - A framework for real time interactive streaming digital human.
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openai-agents - OpenAI's framework for building and managing AI agents.
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OpenChronicle - Open-source, local-first memory for any tool-capable LLM agent.
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promptise - A framework for building end-to-end production-ready agentic systems, scalable & secure MCP's and autonomous agents.
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pydantic-ai - A Python agent framework for building generative AI applications with structured schemas.
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smolagents - A lightweight library to build agents and multi-agent workflows with minimal code.
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TradingAgents - A multi-agents LLM financial trading framework.
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entroly - An auditable context control plane that optimizes prompt context, stabilizes cache prefixes, and verifies answers locally with WITNESS.
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instructor - A library for extracting structured data from LLMs, powered by Pydantic.
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llama-index - A data framework for your LLM application.
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lumen - An agent framework for conversational analysis of SQL, dataframe and multidimensional array data.
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mem0 - An intelligent memory layer for AI agents enabling personalized interactions.
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outlines - Structured text generation for LLMs with JSON schema, regex, and grammar-constrained decoding.
- Pre-trained Models and Inference
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diffusers - A library that provides pre-trained diffusion models for generating and editing images, audio, and video.
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LiteLLM - Call 100+ LLMs using OpenAI format.
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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.
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mlx-lm - Run and fine-tune large language models on Apple Silicon with MLX.
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sglang - A high-performance serving framework for large language models and multimodal models.
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transformers - A framework that lets you easily use pre-trained transformer models for NLP, vision, and audio tasks.
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unsloth - A library for faster LLM fine-tuning and training with reduced memory usage.
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vllm - A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs.
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funasr - Industrial-grade speech recognition toolkit with 170x realtime speed, 50+ languages, speaker diarization, and emotion detection.
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openai-whisper - A general-purpose automatic speech recognition model trained on 680k hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data.
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SenseVoice - A multilingual speech understanding model for speech recognition, language identification, emotion recognition, and audio event detection.
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vibevoice - A family of open-source voice AI models from Microsoft for text-to-speech and long-form speech recognition.
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voxcpm - A tokenizer-free text-to-speech foundation model for multilingual speech generation and voice cloning.
Deep Learning
Frameworks for Neural Networks and Deep Learning. Also see awesome-deep-learning._
- jax - A library for high-performance numerical computing with automatic differentiation and JIT compilation.
- keras - A high-level deep learning library with support for JAX, TensorFlow, and PyTorch backends.
- pytorch - 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.
Machine Learning
Libraries for Machine Learning. Also see awesome-machine-learning._
- catboost - A fast, scalable, high performance gradient boosting on decision trees library.
- feature_engine - sklearn compatible API with the widest toolset for feature engineering and selection.
- h2o - Open Source Fast Scalable Machine Learning Platform.
- lightgbm - A fast, distributed, high performance gradient boosting framework.
- mindsdb - MindsDB is an open source AI layer for existing databases that allows you to effortlessly develop, train and deploy state-of-the-art machine learning models using standard queries.
- pgmpy - A Python library for probabilistic graphical models and Bayesian networks.
- scikit-learn - The most popular Python library for Machine Learning with extensive documentation and community support.
- 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.
Natural Language Processing
Libraries for working with human languages.
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gensim - Topic Modeling for Humans.
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nltk - A leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data.
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spacy - A library for industrial-strength natural language processing in Python and Cython.
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stanza - The Stanford NLP Group's official Python library, supporting 60+ languages.
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funnlp - A collection of tools and datasets for Chinese NLP.
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jieba - The most popular Chinese text segmentation library.
Computer Vision
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.
- ultralytics - Ultralytics YOLO for object detection, segmentation, pose estimation, and classification with state-of-the-art accuracy and speed.
Recommender Systems
Libraries for building recommender systems.
- annoy - Approximate Nearest Neighbors in C++/Python optimized for memory usage.
- implicit - A fast Python implementation of collaborative filtering for implicit datasets.
- scikit-surprise - A scikit for building and analyzing recommender systems.
Web Development
Web Frameworks
Traditional full stack web frameworks. Also see Web APIs.
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bottle - A fast and simple micro-framework distributed as a single file with no dependencies.
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django - The most popular web framework in Python.
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awesome-django
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flask - A microframework for Python.
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awesome-flask
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pyramid - A small, fast, down-to-earth, open source Python web framework.
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awesome-pyramid
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fasthtml - The fastest way to create an HTML app.
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awesome-fasthtml
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masonite - The modern and developer centric Python web framework.
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litestar - Production-ready, capable and extensible ASGI Web framework.
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microdot - The impossibly small web framework for Python and MicroPython.
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reflex - A framework for building reactive, full-stack web applications entirely with Python.
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robyn - A high-performance async Python web framework with a Rust runtime.
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starlette - A lightweight ASGI framework and toolkit for building high-performance async services.
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tornado - A web framework and asynchronous networking library.
Web APIs
Libraries for building RESTful and GraphQL APIs.
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django-modern-rest - Modern REST with speed, types, async,
msgspec,
pydantic and other goodies!
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django-ninja - Fast, Django REST framework based on type hints and Pydantic.
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django-rest-framework - A powerful and flexible toolkit to build web APIs.
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strawberry-django - Strawberry GraphQL integration with Django.
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apiflask - A lightweight Python web API framework based on Flask and Marshmallow.
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connexion - A spec-first framework that automatically handles requests based on your OpenAPI specification.
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falcon - A high-performance framework for building cloud APIs and web app backends.
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fastapi - A modern, fast, web framework for building APIs with standard Python type hints.
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sanic - A Python web server and web framework that's written to go fast.
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strawberry - A GraphQL library that leverages Python type annotations for schema definition.
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webargs - A friendly library for parsing HTTP request arguments with built-in support for popular web frameworks.
Web Servers
ASGI and WSGI compatible web servers.
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daphne - An HTTP, HTTP/2 and WebSocket protocol server for ASGI and ASGI-HTTP.
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granian - A Rust HTTP server for Python applications built on top of Hyper and Tokio, supporting WSGI/ASGI/RSGI.
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hypercorn - An ASGI and WSGI Server based on Hyper libraries and inspired by Gunicorn.
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uvicorn - A lightning-fast ASGI server implementation, using uvloop and httptools.
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gunicorn - Pre-forked, ported from Ruby's Unicorn project.
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uwsgi - A project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services, written in C.
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waitress - Multi-threaded, powers Pyramid.
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grpcio - HTTP/2-based RPC framework with Python bindings, built by Google.
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rpyc (Remote Python Call) - A transparent and symmetric RPC library for Python.
WebSocket
Libraries for working with WebSocket.
- autobahn-python - WebSocket & WAMP for Python on Twisted and asyncio.
- channels - Developer-friendly asynchrony for Django.
- flask-socketio - Socket.IO integration for Flask applications.
- 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.
Template Engines
Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.
- jinja - A modern and designer friendly templating language.
- mako - Hyperfast and lightweight templating for the Python platform.
Web Asset Management
Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.
- django-compressor - Compresses linked and inline JavaScript or CSS into a single cached file.
- django-storages - A collection of custom storage back ends for Django.
Authentication
Libraries for implementing authentication schemes.
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authlib - A comprehensive library for building OAuth, OpenID Connect, and JWT/JWS/JWE/JWK/JWA.
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django-allauth - Authentication app for Django that "just works."
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django-oauth-toolkit - OAuth 2 goodies for Django.
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oauthlib - A generic and thorough implementation of the OAuth request-signing logic.
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pyjwt - JSON Web Token implementation in Python.
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django-guardian - Implementation of per-object permissions for Django.
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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.
- 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.
Web Scraping
Libraries to automate web scraping and extract web content.
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browser-use - Make websites accessible for AI agents with easy browser automation.
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crawl4ai - An open-source, LLM-friendly web crawler that provides lightning-fast, structured data extraction specifically designed for AI agents.
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crawlberg - A high-performance web crawling engine with a Rust core, headless-browser fallback, and built-in robots.txt and sitemap parsing.
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mechanicalsoup - A Python library for automating interaction with websites.
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scrapy - A fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework.
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website-downloader - A modern wget --mirror / HTTrack alternative that turns whole websites into browsable offline copies.
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feedparser - Universal feed parser.
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html2text - Convert HTML to Markdown-formatted text.
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micawber - A small library for extracting rich content from URLs.
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sumy - A module for automatic summarization of text documents and HTML pages.
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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.
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django.db.models - The Django
ORM.
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sqlalchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper.
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awesome-sqlalchemy
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dataset - Store Python dicts in a database - works with SQLite, MySQL, and PostgreSQL.
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peewee - A small, expressive ORM.
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pony - ORM that provides a generator-oriented interface to SQL.
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sqlmodel - SQLModel is based on Python type annotations, and powered by Pydantic and SQLAlchemy.
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tortoise-orm - An easy-to-use asyncio ORM inspired by Django, with relations support.
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beanie - An asynchronous Python object-document mapper (ODM) for MongoDB.
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mongoengine - A Python Object-Document-Mapper for working with MongoDB.
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pynamodb - A Pythonic interface for
Amazon DynamoDB.
Database Drivers
Libraries for connecting and operating databases.
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mysqlclient - MySQL connector with Python 3 support (
mysql-python fork).
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pymysql - A pure Python MySQL driver compatible to mysql-python.
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psycopg - The most popular PostgreSQL adapter for Python.
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sqlite-utils - Python CLI utility and library for manipulating SQLite databases.
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sqlite3 - (Python standard library) SQLite interface compliant with DB-API 2.0.
- Other Relational Databases
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clickhouse-driver - Python driver with native interface for ClickHouse.
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mssql-python - Official Microsoft driver for SQL Server and Azure SQL, built on ODBC for high performance and low memory usage.
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cassandra-driver - The Python Driver for Apache Cassandra.
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django-mongodb-backend - Official MongoDB database backend for Django.
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pymongo - The official Python client for MongoDB.
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redis-py - The Python client for Redis.
Database
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.
Caching
Libraries for caching data.
- cachetools - Extensible memoizing collections and decorators.
- django-cacheops - A slick ORM cache with automatic granular event-driven invalidation.
- dogpile.cache - dogpile.cache is a next generation replacement for Beaker made by the same authors.
- python-diskcache - SQLite and file backed cache backend with faster lookups than memcached and redis.
Search
Libraries and software for indexing and performing search queries on data.
Serialization
Libraries for serializing complex data types.
- marshmallow - A lightweight library for converting complex objects to and from simple Python datatypes.
- msgpack - MessagePack serializer implementation for Python.
- msgspec - A fast serialization and validation library with built-in support for JSON, MessagePack, YAML, and TOML.
- orjson - Fast, correct JSON library.
Data & Science
Data Analysis
Libraries for data analysis.
- aws-sdk-pandas - Pandas on AWS.
- data-profiling - Generate detailed data profiling reports for pandas DataFrames.
- datasette - An open source multi-tool for exploring and publishing data.
- desbordante - An open source data profiler for complex pattern discovery.
- ibis - A portable Python dataframe library with a single API for 20+ backends.
- modin - A drop-in pandas replacement that scales workflows by changing a single line of code.
- pandas - A library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools.
- pathway - Real-time data processing framework for Python with reactive dataflows.
- percentify - Exploratory stats and data-quality diagnostics/profiler, that supports both pandas and Polars DataFrames inputs.
- polars - A fast DataFrame library implemented in Rust with a Python API.
Data Ingestion / ETL
Libraries for data extraction, transformation, and loading pipelines across multiple sources and destinations.
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dlt - A Python library for building data pipelines with automatic schema inference, incremental loading, and support for multiple sources and destinations.
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akshare - A financial data interface library, built for human beings!
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edgartools - Library for downloading structured data from SEC EDGAR filings and XBRL financial statements.
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lumibot - Algorithmic trading framework for backtesting and live deployment across stocks, options, crypto, futures, and forex.
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openbb - A financial data platform for analysts, quants and AI agents.
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yfinance - Easy Pythonic way to download market and financial data from Yahoo Finance.
Data Validation
Libraries for validating data. Used for forms in many cases.
- cerberus - A lightweight and extensible data validation library.
- jsonschema - An implementation of JSON Schema for Python.
- pandera - A data validation library for dataframes, with support for pandas, polars, and Spark.
- pydantic - Data validation using Python type hints.
- voluptuous - A Python data validation library primarily intended for validating data from untrusted sources.
Data Visualization
Libraries for visualizing data. Also see awesome-javascript._
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altair - Declarative statistical visualization library for Python.
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bokeh - Interactive Web Plotting for Python.
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bqplot - Interactive Plotting Library for the Jupyter Notebook.
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matplotlib - A Python 2D plotting library.
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plotly - Interactive graphing library for Python.
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plotnine - A grammar of graphics for Python based on ggplot2.
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pygal - A Python SVG Charts Creator.
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pyqtgraph - Interactive and realtime 2D/3D/Image plotting and science/engineering widgets.
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seaborn - Statistical data visualization using Matplotlib.
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ultraplot - Matplotlib wrapper for publication-ready scientific figures with minimal code. Includes advanced subplot management, panel layouts, and batteries-included geoscience plotting.
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vispy - High-performance scientific visualization based on OpenGL.
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cartopy - A cartographic python library with matplotlib support.
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pygraphviz - Python interface to
Graphviz.
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gradio - Build and share machine learning apps, all in Python.
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streamlit - A framework which lets you build dashboards, generate reports, or create chat apps in minutes.
Geolocation
Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.
- django-countries - A Django app that provides a country field for models and forms.
- geodjango - A world-class geographic web framework 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.
Science
Libraries for scientific computing. Also see Python-for-Scientists._
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numba - Python JIT compiler to LLVM aimed at scientific Python.
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numpy - A fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.
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scipy - A Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering.
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statsmodels - Statistical modeling and econometrics in Python.
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sympy - A Python library for symbolic mathematics.
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biopython - Biopython is a set of freely available tools for biological computation.
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cclib - A library for parsing and interpreting the results of computational chemistry packages.
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openbabel - A chemical toolbox designed to speak the many languages of chemical data.
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rdkit - Cheminformatics and Machine Learning Software.
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astropy - A community Python library for Astronomy.
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obspy - A Python toolbox for seismology.
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pydy - Short for Python Dynamics, used to assist with workflow in the modeling of dynamic motion.
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PythonRobotics - This is a compilation of various robotics algorithms with visualizations.
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mesa - An agent-based modeling framework for building, analyzing, and visualizing complex system simulations.
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pathsim - A block-based system modeling and simulation framework with a browser-based visual editor.
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pymc - Probabilistic programming and Bayesian modeling in Python.
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simpy - A process-based discrete-event simulation framework.
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colour - Implementing a comprehensive number of colour theory transformations and algorithms.
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manim - An animation engine for explanatory math videos.
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networkx - A high-productivity software for complex networks.
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shapely - Manipulation and analysis of geometric objects in the Cartesian plane.
Quantum Computing
Libraries for quantum computing.
- Cirq — A Google-developed framework focused on hardware-aware quantum circuit design for NISQ devices.
- pennylane — A hybrid quantum-classical machine learning library with automatic differentiation support.
- qiskit — An IBM-backed quantum SDK for building, simulating, and running circuits on real quantum hardware.
- qutip - Quantum Toolbox in Python.
Developer Tools
Algorithms and Design Patterns
Python implementation of data structures, algorithms and design patterns. Also see awesome-algorithms._
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algorithms - Minimal examples of data structures and algorithms.
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sortedcontainers - Fast and pure-Python implementation of sorted collections.
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thealgorithms - All Algorithms implemented in Python.
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python-patterns - A collection of design patterns in Python.
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transitions - A lightweight, object-oriented finite state machine implementation.
Interactive Interpreter
Interactive Python interpreters (REPL).
- jupyter - A rich toolkit to help you make the most out of using Python interactively.
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awesome-jupyter
- 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.
Code Analysis
Tools of static analysis, linters and code quality checkers. Also see awesome-static-analysis._
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code2flow - Turn your Python and JavaScript code into DOT flowcharts.
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prospector - A tool to analyze Python code.
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repowise - Codebase intelligence that indexes repos into dependency graphs, git history, and auto-generated docs with dead code detection.
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vulture - A tool for finding and analyzing dead Python code.
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bandit - A tool designed to find common security issues in Python code.
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flake8 - A wrapper around
pycodestyle,
pyflakes and McCabe.
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awesome-flake8-extensions
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pylint - A fully customizable source code analyzer.
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black - The uncompromising Python code formatter.
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isort - A Python utility / library to sort imports.
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ruff - An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter.
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rope - Rope is a python refactoring library.
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mypy - Check variable types during compile time.
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pyrefly - A fast type checker and language server for Python.
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ty - An extremely fast Python type checker and language server.
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typeshed - Collection of library stubs for Python, with static types.
- Type Annotations Generators
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monkeytype - A system for Python that generates static type annotations by collecting runtime types.
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pytype - Pytype checks and infers types for Python code - without requiring type annotations.
Testing
Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data. Also see awesome-python-testing._
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hypothesis - Hypothesis is an advanced Quickcheck style property based testing library.
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pytest - A mature full-featured Python testing tool.
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awesome-pytest
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robotframework - A generic test automation framework.
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scanapi - Automated Testing and Documentation for your REST API.
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unittest - (Python standard library) Unit testing framework.
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nox - Flexible test automation for Python.
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tox - Auto builds and tests distributions in multiple Python versions
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locust - Scalable user load testing tool written in Python.
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playwright-python - Python version of the Playwright testing and automation library.
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pyautogui - PyAutoGUI is a cross-platform GUI automation Python module for human beings.
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schemathesis - A tool for automatic property-based testing of web applications built with Open API / Swagger specifications.
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selenium - Python bindings for
Selenium WebDriver.
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freezegun - Travel through time by mocking the datetime module.
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mock - (Python standard library) A mocking and patching library.
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mocket - A socket mock framework with gevent/asyncio/SSL support.
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responses - A utility library for mocking out the requests Python library.
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respx - Mock HTTPX with awesome request patterns and response side effects.
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vcrpy - Record and replay HTTP interactions on your tests.
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factory_boy - A test fixtures replacement for Python.
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polyfactory - mock data generation library with support to classes (continuation of
pydantic-factories)
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coverage - Code coverage measurement.
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faker - A Python package that generates fake data.
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mimesis - is a Python library that help you generate fake data.
Debugging Tools
Libraries for debugging code.
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ipdb - IPython-enabled
pdb.
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pudb - A full-screen, console-based Python debugger.
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manhole - Debugging UNIX socket connections and present the stacktraces for all threads and an interactive prompt.
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python-hunter - A flexible code tracing toolkit.
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py-spy - A sampling profiler for Python programs. Written in Rust.
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scalene - A high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, and memory profiler for Python.
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django-debug-toolbar - Display various debug information for Django.
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flask-debugtoolbar - A port of the django-debug-toolbar to flask.
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icecream - Inspect variables, expressions, and program execution with a single, simple function call.
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memory_graph - Visualize Python data at runtime to debug references, mutability, and aliasing.
Build Tools
Compile software from source code.
- bitbake - A make-like build tool for embedded Linux.
- 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.
Documentation
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.
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awesome-sphinxdoc
DevOps
DevOps Tools
Software and libraries for DevOps.
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awscli - Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services.
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boto3 - Python interface to Amazon Web Services.
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ansible - A radically simple IT automation platform.
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cloudinit - A multi-distribution package that handles early initialization of a cloud instance.
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openstack - Open source software for building private and public clouds.
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pyinfra - A versatile CLI tools and python libraries to automate infrastructure.
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saltstack - Infrastructure automation and management system.
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chalice - A Python serverless microframework for AWS.
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fabric - A simple, Pythonic tool for remote execution and deployment.
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psutil - A cross-platform process and system utilities module.
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sentry-python - Sentry SDK for Python.
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sh - A full-fledged subprocess replacement for Python.
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supervisor - Supervisor process control system for UNIX.
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borg - A deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption.
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chaostoolkit - A Chaos Engineering toolkit & Orchestration for Developers.
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kubesdk - A modern async-first Kubernetes client and API model generator.
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pre-commit - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.
Distributed Computing
Frameworks and libraries for Distributed Computing.
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dask - A flexible parallel computing library for analytic computing.
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luigi - A module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs.
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mpi4py - Python bindings for MPI.
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pyspark -
Apache Spark Python API.
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joblib - A set of tools to provide lightweight pipelining in Python.
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ray - A system for parallel and distributed Python that unifies the machine learning ecosystem.
Task Queues
Libraries for working with task queues.
- celery - An asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.
- 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.
Messaging
Libraries for working with message brokers and event streaming.
- faststream - A framework for building asynchronous services over Apache Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, MQTT and Redis.
Job Schedulers
Libraries for scheduling jobs.
- airflow - Airflow is a platform to programmatically author, schedule and monitor workflows.
- apscheduler - A light but powerful in-process task scheduler that lets you schedule functions.
- dagster - An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets.
- prefect - A modern workflow orchestration framework that makes it easy to build, schedule and monitor robust data pipelines.
- schedule - Python job scheduling for humans.
- SpiffWorkflow - A powerful workflow engine implemented in pure Python.
Logging
Libraries for generating and working with logs.
- 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.
Network Virtualization
Tools and libraries for Virtual Networking and SDN (Software Defined Networking).
- mininet - A popular network emulator and API written in Python.
- napalm - Cross-vendor API to manipulate network devices.
- scapy - A brilliant packet manipulation library.
CLI & GUI
CLI Development
Libraries for building command-line applications.
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argparse - (Python standard library) Command-line option and argument parsing.
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cement - CLI Application Framework for Python.
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click - A package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way.
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python-fire - A library for creating command line interfaces from absolutely any Python object.
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python-prompt-toolkit - A library for building powerful interactive command lines.
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typer - Modern CLI framework that uses Python type hints. Built on Click and Pydantic.
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alive-progress - A new kind of Progress Bar, with real-time throughput, eta and very cool animations.
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asciimatics - A package to create full-screen text UIs (from interactive forms to ASCII animations).
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colorama - Cross-platform colored terminal text.
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rich - Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. Also provides a great
RichHandler log handler.
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textual - A framework for building interactive user interfaces that run in the terminal and the browser.
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tqdm - Fast, extensible progress bar for loops and CLI.
CLI Tools
Useful CLI-based tools for productivity.
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cookiecutter - A command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates).
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copier - A library and command-line utility for rendering projects templates.
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doitlive - A tool for live presentations in the terminal.
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kaydet - Queryable personal database and terminal diary with SQLite search, tags, metadata, and AI integration via MCP.
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thefuck - Correcting your previous console command.
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tmuxp - A
tmux session manager.
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xonsh - A Python-powered shell. Full-featured and cross-platform.
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yt-dlp - A command-line program to download videos from YouTube and other video sites, a fork of youtube-dl.
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httpie - A command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement.
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iredis - Redis CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
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litecli - SQLite CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
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mycli - MySQL CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
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pgcli - PostgreSQL CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
GUI Development
Libraries for working with graphical user interface applications.
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customtkinter - A modern and customizable python UI-library based on Tkinter.
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dearpygui - A Simple GPU accelerated Python GUI framework
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enaml - Creating beautiful user-interfaces with Declarative Syntax like QML.
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kivy - A library for creating NUI applications, running on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android and iOS.
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pyglet - A cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python.
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pygobject - Python Bindings for GLib/GObject/GIO/GTK+ (GTK+3).
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PyQt - Python bindings for the
Qt cross-platform application and UI framework.
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pyside - Qt for Python offers the official Python bindings for
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