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中文 Awesome Python 是一份带筛选立场的 Python 框架、库与工具清单，按 AI 与 Agent、Web 开发、数据库、DevOps、安全等类别整理，并给出每个项目的仓库链接。它解决的是选型时信息分散、质量参差的问题，可配合官网搜索与过滤。适合需要快速判断技术栈的 Python 开发者与团队参考。

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Awesome Python

An opinionated guide to the best Python frameworks, libraries, and tools.

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Projects

AI & ML

AI and Agents

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. - scientific-agent-skills - Agent skills for scientific research and analysis with Python libraries like scikit-learn, polars, and biopython. - sentry-skills - Agent skills the Sentry team uses for code review, pull requests, and Django reviews. - trailofbits-skills - Security skills for vulnerability detection, auditing, and testing. - wshobson-agents - Plugins, agents, and skills for AI coding tools, including Python skills for testing, async, packaging, and uv.

Orchestration

- langchain - A framework for building agents and LLM-powered applications. - langgraph - Low-level orchestration framework for building stateful, long-running LLM agents. - pydantic-ai - A Python agent framework for building generative AI applications with structured schemas. - crewai - A framework for orchestrating role-playing autonomous AI agents for collaborative task solving.

Vendor Agent SDKs

- claude-agent-sdk - Anthropic's Python SDK for building AI agents on Claude Code's harness — custom tools, in-process MCP servers, hooks. - openai-agents - OpenAI's framework for building and managing AI agents. - google-adk - Google's code-first toolkit for building, evaluating, and deploying AI agents.

Model Context Protocol

- mcp - The official Python SDK for building Model Context Protocol servers and clients. - fastmcp - A high-level, Pythonic framework for building MCP servers and clients.

Personal Assistants

- hermes-agent - An adaptive personal AI assistant that grows with you. - AstrBot - A multi-platform AI assistant that connects LLMs to chat apps like Telegram, Slack, and QQ, extensible with Python plugins.

Prompt Optimization

- dspy - A framework for programming, not prompting, language models.

Data Layer

- instructor - A library for extracting structured data from LLMs, powered by Pydantic. - llama-index - A toolkit for building RAG pipelines and agents over your data. - mem0 - An intelligent memory layer for AI agents enabling personalized interactions. - openviking - A context database for AI agents that unifies memory, resources, and skills. - semantica - A graph-native context and knowledge layer for AI agents with reasoning, provenance, and governance.

Pre-trained Models

- transformers - The model-definition framework for pretrained models in text, computer vision, audio, video, and multimodal tasks, for inference and training. - sentence-transformers - Compute embeddings, run retrieval, and rerank results with pretrained and fine-tuned models.

Local LLM Inference

- ollama - Python client for Ollama, which downloads and runs open-weight LLMs locally. - llama-cpp-python - Python bindings for llama.cpp, for running GGUF models locally. - mlx-lm - Run and fine-tune large language models on Apple Silicon with MLX.

LLM Serving

- vllm - A high-throughput and memory-efficient inference and serving engine for LLMs. - sglang - A high-performance serving framework for large language models and multimodal models. - deepinfer - DeepSeek's production inference engine for DeepSeek models, with MoE expert parallelism.

Image and Video Generation

- diffusers - Pre-trained diffusion models for generating and editing images, audio, and video.

Fine-tuning

- peft - A library for parameter-efficient fine-tuning of large pretrained models. - trl - A library for post-training transformer language models with SFT, DPO, GRPO, and other trainers. - unsloth - Faster, lower-memory LLM fine-tuning, as a Python library or a desktop app. - axolotl - A framework for fine-tuning and post-training large language models.

Speech

- faster-whisper - A Whisper reimplementation on CTranslate2, up to 4 times faster than openai-whisper with less memory. - openai-whisper - A general-purpose automatic speech recognition model trained on 680k hours of multilingual and multitask supervised data. - gTTS - Python library and CLI tool for converting text to speech using Google Translate TTS. - funasr - Industrial-grade speech recognition toolkit with speaker diarization and emotion detection.

Deep Learning

Frameworks for Neural Networks and Deep Learning. Also see awesome-deep-learning.

Frameworks

- 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. - jax - A library for high-performance numerical computing with autodiff and JIT compilation. - keras - A high-level deep learning library with support for JAX, TensorFlow, and PyTorch backends. - tensorflow - An end-to-end machine learning platform from Google.

Reinforcement Learning

- gymnasium - A standard API for reinforcement learning environments with popular reference environments (gym successor). - stable-baselines3 - PyTorch implementations of Stable Baselines (deep) reinforcement learning algorithms.

Machine Learning

Libraries for Machine Learning. Also see awesome-machine-learning.

General

- scikit-learn - The most popular Python library for Machine Learning with extensive documentation and community support. - imbalanced-learn - Resampling techniques for imbalanced datasets, compatible with scikit-learn. - pgmpy - A Python library for causal and probabilistic reasoning with graphical models. - feature-engine - sklearn compatible API with the widest toolset for feature engineering and selection.

Gradient Boosting

- xgboost - A scalable, portable, and distributed gradient boosting library. - lightgbm - A fast, distributed, high performance gradient boosting framework. - catboost - A fast, scalable, high performance gradient boosting on decision trees library.

Time Series Forecasting

- prophet - A tool for producing forecasts for time series with multiple seasonality and trend changes. - statsforecast - Fast statistical forecasting models such as ARIMA, ETS, and Theta, compiled with numba. - sktime - A unified scikit-learn-style framework for forecasting and other time-series learning tasks. - timesfm - A pretrained foundation model from Google Research for time-series forecasting, with non-commercial default weights.

Hyperparameter Optimization

- optuna - A hyperparameter optimization framework with define-by-run search spaces and pruning of unpromising trials. - hyperopt - Distributed asynchronous hyperparameter optimization with Tree-structured Parzen Estimators.

Natural Language Processing

Libraries for working with human languages.

General

- 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. - gensim - Topic Modeling for Humans. - stanza - The Stanford NLP Group's official Python library, supporting 60+ languages.

Chinese

- jieba - The most popular Chinese text segmentation library. - pypinyin - Convert Chinese hanzi (漢字) to pinyin (拼音). - OpenCC - Traditional/Simplified Chinese conversion with regional variants and phrase-level rules. - pangu.py - Paranoid text spacing.

Computer Vision

Libraries for image and video analysis, object detection, and OCR.

General

- opencv-python - Open Source Computer Vision Library. - ultralytics - Ultralytics YOLO for object detection, segmentation, pose estimation, classification, and tracking. - kornia - Open Source Differentiable Computer Vision Library for PyTorch. - fiftyone - The open-source tool for building high-quality datasets and computer vision models.

- pytesseract - A wrapper for the Tesseract OCR engine. - easyocr - Ready-to-use OCR with 80+ languages supported. - paddleocr - Multilingual OCR and document parsing toolkit based on PaddlePaddle.

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.

Synchronous

- flask - A microframework for Python. - awesome-flask - django - A high-level web framework that encourages rapid development and clean, pragmatic design. - awesome-django - bottle - A fast and simple micro-framework distributed as a single file with no dependencies. - pyramid - A small, fast, down-to-earth, open source Python web framework. - fasthtml - The fastest way to create an HTML app.

Asynchronous

- starlette - A lightweight ASGI framework and toolkit for building high-performance async services. - tornado - A web framework and asynchronous networking library. - litestar - Production-ready, capable and extensible ASGI Web framework. - reflex - A framework for building reactive, full-stack web applications entirely with Python.

Web APIs

Libraries for building RESTful, GraphQL, and RPC APIs.

Django

- django-rest-framework - A powerful and flexible toolkit to build web APIs. - django-ninja - Fast, Django REST framework based on type hints and Pydantic. - strawberry-django - Strawberry GraphQL integration with Django. - django-modern-rest - Modern REST with speed, types, async, msgspec, pydantic and other goodies.

Flask

- flask-restx - Fully featured framework for fast, easy and documented API development with Flask. - flask-smorest - A Flask/Marshmallow-based REST API framework with automatic OpenAPI documentation. - apiflask - A lightweight Python web API framework based on Flask, supporting marshmallow schemas and Pydantic models.

Framework Agnostic

- fastapi - A modern, fast, web framework for building APIs with standard Python type hints. - strawberry - A GraphQL library that leverages Python type annotations for schema definition. - connexion - A spec-first framework that handles requests based on your OpenAPI specification.

- grpcio - HTTP/2-based RPC framework with Python bindings, built by Google.

Web Servers

ASGI and WSGI compatible web servers.

ASGI

- uvicorn - A lightning-fast ASGI server implementation. - granian - A Rust HTTP server for Python apps built on Hyper and Tokio, supporting WSGI/ASGI/RSGI. - hypercorn - An ASGI and WSGI Server based on Hyper libraries and inspired by Gunicorn.

WSGI

- gunicorn - A pre-fork WSGI server with a native ASGI worker, ported from Ruby's Unicorn project. - waitress - Multi-threaded, powers Pyramid.

WebSocket

Libraries for working with WebSocket.

websockets - A library for building WebSocket servers and clients with a focus on correctness and simplicity.
channels - Brings WebSocket, long-poll HTTP, and other async support to Django.
flask-socketio - Socket.IO integration for Flask applications.
autobahn-python - WebSocket & WAMP for Python on Twisted and asyncio.

Template Engines

Libraries for rendering text and HTML from templates.

jinja - A modern and designer friendly templating language.
mako - Hyperfast and lightweight templating for the Python platform.

Web Asset Management

Tools for managing, storing, compressing and minifying website assets.

whitenoise - Simplified static file serving for WSGI apps, with compression and caching headers.
django-storages - A collection of custom storage back ends for Django.
django-compressor - Compresses linked and inline JavaScript or CSS into a single cached file.

Authentication

Libraries for implementing authentication schemes.

OAuth

- oauthlib - A generic and thorough implementation of the OAuth request-signing logic. - 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 - An OAuth 2.0 authorization server for Django.

- pyjwt - JSON Web Token implementation in Python.

Permissions

- django-guardian - Implementation of per-object permissions for Django. - django-rules - A tiny but powerful app for object-level permissions in Django, without a database.

Admin Panels

Libraries for administrative interfaces.

flask-admin - Simple and extensible administrative interface framework for Flask.
django-unfold - A modern Django admin theme for building dashboards, internal tools, and business applications.
sqladmin - An admin interface for SQLAlchemy models in FastAPI and Starlette.
django-grappelli - A jazzy skin for the Django Admin-Interface.

CMS

Content Management Systems.

wagtail - A Django content management system.
django-cms - The easy-to-use and developer-friendly enterprise CMS powered by Django.

ERP

Enterprise resource planning frameworks.

odoo - A suite of open source business apps: CRM, e-commerce, accounting, inventory, and thousands of community modules.

Static Site Generators

Static site generator is a software that takes some text + templates as input and produces HTML files on the output.

pelican - Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax.
nikola - A static website and blog generator.

HTTP & Scraping

HTTP Clients

Libraries for working with HTTP.

General

- requests - HTTP Requests for Humans. - aiohttp - Asynchronous HTTP client/server framework for asyncio and Python. - httpx2 - HTTP/1.1 and HTTP/2 client with sync and async APIs, maintained by Pydantic (httpx fork). - urllib3 - An HTTP library with thread-safe connection pooling, file post, and more. - httpx - A next generation HTTP client for Python.

URL Manipulation

- yarl - Yet another URL library.

Web Scraping

Libraries to automate web scraping and extract web content.

Frameworks

- browser-use - Make websites accessible for AI agents with easy browser automation. - scrapy - A fast high-level web crawling and scraping framework. - crawl4ai - An open-source, LLM-friendly web crawler that provides lightning-fast, structured data extraction specifically designed for AI agents. - stagehand - A fast and token-efficient browser automation SDK to extract data and perform self-healing actions on web pages. - scrapling - An adaptive scraping framework whose selectors relocate elements after page changes, with stealth fetchers and spiders.

Content Extraction

- markdownify - Convert HTML to Markdown, with customizable tag handling. - feedparser - Universal feed parser. - trafilatura - A tool for gathering text and metadata from the web, with built-in content filtering.

Email

Libraries for sending email.

aiosmtplib - An asyncio SMTP client.
django-anymail - Django email backends and webhooks for transactional email services such as Amazon SES, Brevo, Mailgun, Postmark, and Resend.
yagmail - Yet another Gmail/SMTP client.

Database & Storage

ORM

Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or data mapping techniques.

Relational Databases

- sqlalchemy - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper. - awesome-sqlalchemy - django.db.models - (part of Django) The Django ORM. - peewee - A small, expressive ORM. - sqlmodel - SQLModel is based on Python type annotations, and powered by Pydantic and SQLAlchemy.

NoSQL Databases

- pynamodb - A Pythonic interface for Amazon DynamoDB. - mongoengine - A Python Object-Document-Mapper for working with MongoDB. - beanie - An asynchronous Python object-document mapper (ODM) for MongoDB. - django-mongodb-backend - Official MongoDB database backend for Django.

Database Drivers

Libraries for connecting and operating databases.

MySQL - awesome-mysql

- pymysql - A pure-Python MySQL and MariaDB client library, based on PEP 249. - mysqlclient - MySQL and MariaDB connector (MySQLdb1 fork).

PostgreSQL - awesome-postgres

- psycopg - A PostgreSQL adapter for Python, the successor to psycopg2. - asyncpg - A fast PostgreSQL Database Client Library for Python/asyncio. - pgvector - pgvector support for Python, adding vector types and similarity search to psycopg, asyncpg, SQLAlchemy, and Django.

SQLite - awesome-sqlite

- sqlite3 - (Python standard library) SQLite interface compliant with DB-API 2.0. - apsw - Another Python SQLite Wrapper, exposing the complete SQLite C API. - sqlite-utils - Python CLI utility and library for manipulating SQLite databases.

ClickHouse

- clickhouse-connect - The official ClickHouse client, with SQLAlchemy and Superset connectors. - clickhouse-driver - Python driver with native interface for ClickHouse.

Other Relational Databases

- pyodbc - An ODBC bridge for connecting to SQL Server and any other ODBC-accessible database. - oracledb - The official Python driver for Oracle Database, successor to cx_Oracle. - mssql-python - Official Microsoft driver for SQL Server and Azure SQL, built on ODBC for high performance.

NoSQL Databases

- redis - The Python client for Redis. - pymongo - The official Python client for MongoDB. - cassandra-driver - The Python Driver for Apache Cassandra.

Database

In-process databases usable directly from Python.

Analytical

- duckdb - An in-process SQL OLAP database management system; optimized for analytics and fast queries, similar to SQLite but for analytical workloads. - chdb - In-process OLAP SQL engine with the full ClickHouse dialect, zero-copy pandas/Arrow interop, and federation to remote ClickHouse clusters via remoteSecure().

Vector

- lancedb - A developer-friendly embedded retrieval database for multimodal AI. - chromadb - An open-source embedding database for building AI applications with semantic search. - zvec - A lightweight, in-process vector database that embeds directly into applications.

Key-Value & Document

- tinydb - A tiny, document-oriented database.

Caching

Libraries for caching data.

General

- cachetools - Extensible memoizing collections and decorators. - diskcache - SQLite and file backed cache backend, compatible with Django. - dogpile.cache - A caching API for Redis, Memcached, and others, with coordinated value regeneration.

HTTP Responses

- hishel - RFC 9111 compliant HTTP caching for clients like httpx and requests and servers like FastAPI, with sync and async support.

Django

- django-redis - Full-featured Redis cache backend for Django. - django-cacheops - A slick ORM cache with automatic granular event-driven invalidation.

Search

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

Full-Text Search

- opensearch-py - The official low-level Python client for OpenSearch. - elasticsearch - The official low-level Python client for Elasticsearch. - meilisearch - The official Python client for the Meilisearch search engine. - django-haystack - Modular search for Django.

Vector Search

- faiss-cpu - A library for efficient similarity search and clustering of dense vectors.

Serialization

Libraries for serializing complex data types.

Data Formats

- msgpack - MessagePack serializer implementation for Python. - orjson - Fast, correct JSON library. - marshmallow - A lightweight library for converting complex objects to and from simple Python datatypes. - msgspec - A fast serialization and validation library supporting JSON, MessagePack, YAML, and TOML.

Object Pickling

- cloudpickle - Extends pickle to functions, lambdas, and interactively defined classes, for shipping code to remote workers. - dill - Extends pickle to serialize almost any object, including closures and interpreter sessions.

Data & Science

Data Analysis

Libraries for data analysis.

pandas - A library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools.
polars - A fast DataFrame library implemented in Rust with a Python API.
ibis-framework - A portable Python dataframe library with a single API for 20+ backends.

Data Ingestion / ETL

Libraries for data extraction, transformation, and loading pipelines across multiple sources and destinations.

General

- awswrangler - Pandas integration with AWS services like Athena, Glue, Redshift, S3, and DynamoDB. - dlt - A Python library for building data pipelines with automatic schema inference, incremental loading, and support for multiple sources and destinations.

Financial Data

- yfinance - Easy Pythonic way to download market and financial data from Yahoo Finance. - akshare - A financial data interface library, with data provided for academic research only. - edgartools - Downloads SEC EDGAR filings and XBRL financial statements as structured data. - openbb - A financial data platform for analysts, quants and AI agents.

Data Validation

Libraries for validating data.

pydantic - Data validation using Python type hints.
jsonschema - An implementation of JSON Schema for Python.
great-expectations - A data quality framework for validating, documenting, and profiling data with declarative expectations.
pandera - A data validation library for dataframes, with support for pandas, polars, PySpark, and more.

Data Visualization

Libraries for visualizing data. Also see awesome-javascript.

Plotting

- matplotlib - A comprehensive library for creating static, animated, and interactive visualizations. - plotly - Interactive graphing library for Python. - seaborn - Statistical data visualization using Matplotlib. - altair - Declarative statistical visualization library for Python. - bokeh - Interactive Web Plotting for Python.

Specialized

- graphviz - Simple Python interface for creating and rendering Graphviz graphs. - cartopy - A cartographic Python library with matplotlib support. - graphify - Turns code, SQL schemas, docs, papers, images, or videos into a queryable knowledge graph.

Dashboards and Apps

- streamlit - A framework which lets you build dashboards, generate reports, or create chat apps in minutes. - dash - A framework for building data apps and dashboards in pure Python, built on Plotly. - gradio - Build and share machine learning apps, all in Python.

Geolocation

Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.

geopandas - Python tools for geographic data (GeoSeries/GeoDataFrame) built on pandas.
geopy - Python Geocoding Toolbox.
geojson - Python bindings and utilities for GeoJSON.
geodjango - (part of Django) A world-class geographic web framework.

Science

Libraries for scientific computing. Also see Python-for-Scientists.

Core

- numpy - A fundamental package for scientific computing with Python. - scipy - Fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python. - numba - A NumPy-aware JIT compiler for Python, using LLVM.

Symbolic Mathematics

- sympy - A Python library for symbolic mathematics.

Statistics

- statsmodels - Statistical modeling and econometrics in Python.

Biology and Chemistry

- rdkit - Cheminformatics and Machine Learning Software. - biopython - Biopython is a set of freely available tools for biological computation.

Physics and Engineering

- pint - Operate and manipulate physical quantities with units and dimensional analysis. - astropy - A community Python library for Astronomy. - obspy - A Python toolbox for seismology.

Simulation and Modeling

- pymc - Probabilistic programming and Bayesian modeling in Python. - simpy - A process-based discrete-event simulation framework. - mesa - An agent-based modeling framework for building, analyzing, and visualizing complex system simulations.

Graphs and Networks

- networkx - A high-productivity software for complex networks.

Computational Geometry

- shapely - Manipulation and analysis of geometric objects in the Cartesian plane.

Other

- colour-science - Implementing a comprehensive number of colour theory transformations and algorithms. - manim - An animation engine for explanatory math videos.

Quantum Computing

Libraries for quantum computing.

qiskit - An IBM-backed quantum SDK for building, simulating, and running circuits on real quantum hardware.
qutip - Quantum Toolbox in Python.
pennylane - A cross-platform library for quantum computing, quantum ML, and quantum chemistry.
cirq - A Google-developed framework focused on hardware-aware quantum circuit design for NISQ devices.

Developer Tools

Algorithms and Design Patterns

Python implementation of data structures, algorithms and design patterns. Also see awesome-algorithms.

Algorithms

- sortedcontainers - Fast and pure-Python implementation of sorted collections. - algorithms - Minimal examples of data structures and algorithms. - thealgorithms - All Algorithms implemented in Python.

Design Patterns

- python-patterns - A collection of design patterns and idioms in Python. - python-statemachine - Expressive statecharts and finite state machines with a declarative API, in sync and async codebases.

Interactive Interpreter

Interactive Python interpreters (REPL).

ipython - A powerful interactive Python shell, and the kernel behind Jupyter notebooks.
notebook - A web-based notebook environment for interactive computing.

- awesome-jupyter

marimo - A reactive notebook for Python, stored as pure Python and runnable as a script or app.
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.

General

- import-linter - A linter that enforces architectural constraints on imports between Python modules. - vulture - A tool for finding and analyzing dead Python code. - complexipy - Cognitive complexity analysis for Python code, written in Rust. - prospector - A tool to analyze Python code.

Git Hooks

- pre-commit - A framework for managing and maintaining multi-language pre-commit hooks.

Linters and Formatters

- ruff - An extremely fast Python linter and code formatter. - black - The uncompromising Python code formatter. - isort - A Python utility / library to sort imports. - pylint - A fully customizable source code analyzer. - flake8 - A wrapper around pycodestyle, pyflakes and McCabe. - awesome-flake8-extensions - bandit - A tool designed to find common security issues in Python code.

Refactoring

- rope - Rope is a Python refactoring library. - ast-grep-cli - A CLI tool for structural code search, linting, and rewriting based on syntax trees.

Type Checkers - awesome-python-typing

- mypy - A static type checker for Python. - ty - An extremely fast Python type checker and language server. - pyright - Full-featured static type checker for Python from Microsoft, the engine behind Pylance. - pyrefly - A fast type checker and language server for Python.

Testing

Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data. Also see awesome-python-testing.

Frameworks

- pytest - A mature full-featured Python testing tool. - awesome-pytest - hypothesis - Hypothesis is an advanced Quickcheck style property based testing library. - robotframework - A generic test automation framework.

Test Runners

- tox - Auto builds and tests distributions in multiple Python versions. - nox - Flexible test automation for Python.

Browser Automation

- playwright-python - Python version of the Playwright testing and automation library. - selenium - Python bindings for Selenium WebDriver. - seleniumbase - Python framework for web automation & testing, with stealth options.

Load Testing

- locust - Scalable user load testing tool written in Python.

API Testing

- schemathesis - Automatic property-based testing of web APIs from OpenAPI or GraphQL schemas.

Mock

- unittest.mock - (Python standard library) A mocking and patching library. - responses - A utility library for mocking out the requests Python library. - vcrpy - Record and replay HTTP interactions on your tests. - respx - Mock HTTPX with awesome request patterns and response side effects. - time-machine - Travel through time in your tests by mocking the current time at the C level.

Object Factories

- factory-boy - A test fixtures replacement for Python. - polyfactory - A mock data generation library based on type hints (continuation of pydantic-factories).

Code Coverage

- coverage - Code coverage measurement.

Fake Data

- faker - A Python package that generates fake data. - mimesis - A Python library for generating fake but realistic data in multiple languages and locales.

Debugging Tools

Libraries for debugging code.

pdb-like Debugger

- ipdb - IPython-enabled pdb. - pudb - A full-screen, console-based Python debugger.

Tracing

- viztracer - A low-overhead tool that traces and visualizes Python code execution.

Profiler

- py-spy - A sampling profiler for Python programs. Written in Rust. - memray - Tracks memory allocations in Python code, native extensions, and the interpreter itself. - pyinstrument - A statistical wall-clock profiler with low overhead and readable call-tree output. - scalene - A high-performance, high-precision CPU, GPU, and memory profiler for Python.

Others

- django-debug-toolbar - Display various debug information for Django. - django-silk - Live profiling and inspection of HTTP requests and database queries for Django. - icecream - Inspect variables, expressions, and program execution with a single, simple function call. - flask-debugtoolbar - A port of the django-debug-toolbar to flask.

Build Tools

Task runners and software build tools. If you're looking for Python packaging/build tools, see Package Management.

invoke - A tool for managing shell-oriented subprocesses and organizing executable Python code into CLI-invokable tasks.
poethepoet - A task runner that defines tasks in pyproject.toml and works with poetry or uv.
scons - A software construction tool.
doit - A task runner and build tool.

Documentation

Libraries for generating project documentation.

sphinx - Python Documentation generator.

- awesome-sphinxdoc

mkdocs-material - A documentation framework and Material Design theme built on MkDocs.
diagrams - Diagram as Code.
pdoc - Auto-generates API documentation for Python projects.
zensical - A modern static site generator for technical documentation.

DevOps

DevOps Tools

Software and libraries for DevOps.

Cloud Providers

- boto3 - Python interface to Amazon Web Services. - awscli - Universal Command Line Interface for Amazon Web Services; the PyPI package is v1, in maintenance mode, while v2 ships as AWS's bundled installer. - azure-sdk-for-python - Microsoft Azure SDK for Python, published as per-service packages. - google-cloud-python - Google Cloud client libraries for Python, published as per-service packages.

Configuration Management

- ansible - A radically simple IT automation platform. - cloud-init - A multi-distribution package that handles early initialization of a cloud instance. - pyinfra - Turns Python code into shell commands and runs them on your servers. - salt - Infrastructure automation and management system.

Deployment

- fabric - A simple, Pythonic tool for remote execution and deployment. - chalice - A Python serverless microframework for AWS.

Monitoring and Processes

- psutil - A cross-platform process and system utilities module. - sentry-sdk - Sentry SDK for Python. - supervisor - Supervisor process control system for UNIX. - flower - A real-time monitor and web admin for Celery task queues. - sh - A full-fledged subprocess replacement for Python.

Other

- borgbackup - A deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption.

Distributed Computing

Frameworks and libraries for Distributed Computing.

pyspark - Apache Spark Python API.
dask - A flexible parallel computing library for analytic computing.
ray - A unified framework for scaling AI and Python applications.
joblib - Parallel computing and disk-based caching for Python functions.
mpi4py - Python bindings for MPI.

Task Queues

Libraries for working with task queues.

celery - An asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.
rq - Simple job queues for Python.
dramatiq - A fast and reliable background task processing library for Python 3.
huey - A little task queue with multi-process, multi-thread, or greenlet workers.
taskiq - Distributed task queue with native asyncio support and pluggable brokers.

Messaging

Libraries for working with message brokers and event streaming.

confluent-kafka - Confluent's Python client for Apache Kafka, built on librdkafka.
pika - Pure-Python RabbitMQ/AMQP 0-9-1 client library.
paho-mqtt - The Eclipse Paho MQTT client for Python.
faststream - A framework for building async services over Kafka, RabbitMQ, NATS, MQTT, and Redis.

Job Schedulers

Libraries for scheduling jobs.

Task Scheduling

- apscheduler - A light but powerful in-process task scheduler that lets you schedule functions. - schedule - Python job scheduling for humans.

Workflow Orchestration

- temporalio - Temporal SDK for durable, fault-tolerant workflows that survive crashes and retries. - dagster - An orchestration platform for the development, production, and observation of data assets. - apache-airflow - Airflow is a platform to programmatically author, schedule and monitor workflows. - prefect - A modern workflow orchestration framework that makes it easy to build, schedule and monitor robust data pipelines.

Logging

Libraries for generating and working with logs.

logging - (Python standard library) Logging facility for Python.
structlog - Structured logging made easy.
loguru - Library which aims to bring enjoyable logging in Python.
logfire - The observability platform for Python, from the makers of Pydantic.

Network Virtualization

Tools and libraries for packet manipulation and network device automation.

scapy - A brilliant packet manipulation library.
netmiko - Multi-vendor library to simplify CLI connections to network devices.
napalm - Cross-vendor API to manipulate network devices.

CLI & GUI

CLI Development

Libraries for building command-line applications.

General

- argparse - (Python standard library) Command-line option and argument parsing. - click - A package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way. - typer - Modern CLI framework that uses Python type hints. Built on Click. - prompt_toolkit - A library for building powerful interactive command lines. - cyclopts - Build CLIs from type-hinted functions, with docstring-based help.

Terminal Rendering

- rich - Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the terminal. Also provides a great RichHandler log handler. - tqdm - Fast, extensible progress bar for loops and CLI. - colorama - Cross-platform colored terminal text. - alive-progress - A new kind of Progress Bar, with real-time throughput, eta and very cool animations.

TUI Frameworks

- textual - A framework for building interactive user interfaces that run in the terminal and the browser. - urwid - A library for creating terminal GUI applications with strong support for widgets, events, rich colors, etc. - asciimatics - A package to create full-screen text UIs (from interactive forms to ASCII animations).

CLI Tools

Useful CLI-based tools.

Database CLIs

- pgcli - PostgreSQL CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting. - mycli - MySQL CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting. - litecli - SQLite CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting. - iredis - Redis CLI with autocompletion and syntax highlighting.

Downloaders

- yt-dlp - A command-line video downloader for YouTube and other sites, a fork of youtube-dl.

HTTP Clients

- httpie - A command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement.

Project Scaffolding

- cookiecutter - A command-line utility that creates projects from cookiecutters (project templates). - copier - A library and command-line utility for rendering project templates.

Shells

- xonsh - A Python-powered shell. Full-featured and cross-platform.

Terminal Workflow

- tmuxp - A tmux session manager.

GUI Development

Libraries for working with graphical user interface applications.

Desktop

- PyGObject - Python Bindings for GLib/GObject/GIO/GTK. - dearpygui - A simple GPU-accelerated Python GUI framework. - Kivy - An open-source cross-platform GUI framework for desktop, mobile, and embedded devices. - wxPython - A cross-platform GUI toolkit that wraps the wxWidgets C++ library. - toga - A Python native, OS native GUI toolkit.

- PySide6 - Qt for Python offers the official Python bindings for Qt, largely API-compatible with PyQt6 but with different licensing. - PyQt6 - Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework.

Tkinter

- tkinter - (Python standard library) The standard Python interface to the Tcl/Tk GUI toolkit. - customtkinter - A modern and customizable Python UI-library based on Tkinter.

Web-based

- pywebview - A lightweight cross-platform native wrapper around a webview component. - nicegui - An easy-to-use, Python-based UI framework, which shows up in your web browser. - flet - Cross-platform GUI framework for building modern apps in pure Python.

Text & Documents

Text Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating plain texts.

Encoding and Unicode

- charset-normalizer - Universal character encoding detector, and a dependency of requests. - chardet - Python character encoding detector. - ftfy - Makes Unicode text less broken and more consistent automagically.

Fuzzy Matching

- rapidfuzz - Rapid fuzzy string matching using various string metrics, with a C++ core.

General

- difflib - (Python standard library) Helpers for computing deltas. - pyfiglet - An implementation of figlet written in Python.

Internationalization

- babel - An internationalization library for Python.

Parser

- pygments - A generic syntax highlighter. - pyparsing - A Python library for creating PEG parsers. - sqlparse - A non-validating SQL parser. - phonenumbers - Parsing, formatting, storing and validating international phone numbers. - parsy - Easy, generic parser combinator library for creating parsers.

Transliteration and Slugs

- python-slugify - A Python slugify library that translates unicode to ASCII. - unidecode - ASCII transliterations of Unicode text.

Unique identifiers

- shortuuid - A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs.

HTML Manipulation

Libraries for working with HTML and XML.

lxml - A very fast, easy-to-use and versatile library for handling HTML and XML.
beautifulsoup4 - Providing Pythonic idioms for iterating, searching, and modifying HTML or XML.
xmltodict - Working with XML feel like you are working with JSON.
markupsafe - Safely adds untrusted strings to HTML/XML markup.
justhtml - A pure Python HTML5 parser that sanitizes untrusted HTML by default.

File Format Processing

Libraries for parsing and manipulating specific file formats.

General

- pyelftools - Parsing and analyzing ELF files and DWARF debugging information. - tablib - A module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML.

File Conversion

- markitdown - Python tool for converting files and office documents to Markdown. - pypandoc - A thin wrapper for pandoc, the universal document converter. - docling - Library for converting documents into structured data.

Excel

- openpyxl - A library for reading and writing Excel 2010 xlsx/xlsm/xltx/xltm files. - xlsxwriter - A Python module for creating Excel .xlsx files.

Word

- python-docx - Creates, reads, and updates Microsoft Word (.docx) files.

PowerPoint

- python-pptx - Python library for creating and updating PowerPoint (.pptx) files.

- pypdf - A library capable of splitting, merging, cropping, and transforming PDF pages. - pymupdf - A fast MuPDF-based library for extracting, rendering, and editing PDFs and other documents. - reportlab - An open-source library for generating PDFs and graphics. - pdfminer.six - A community-maintained fork of PDFMiner for extracting information from PDF documents.

HTML-to-PDF

- weasyprint - A visual rendering engine for HTML and CSS that can export to PDF.

Markdown

- markdown-it-py - Markdown parser with 100% CommonMark support, extensions, and syntax plugins. - markdown - A Python implementation of John Gruber's Markdown. - mistune - A fast yet powerful Python Markdown parser with renderers and plugins.

Data Formats

- tomllib - (Python standard library) Parse TOML files. - pyyaml - A full-featured YAML framework for Python.

File Manipulation

Libraries for file manipulation.

Paths and File Watching

- pathlib - (Python standard library) A cross-platform, object-oriented path library. - watchfiles - Simple, modern and fast file watching and code reload in Python. - watchdog - API and shell utilities to monitor file system events.

File Type Detection

- mimetypes - (Python standard library) Map filenames to MIME types. - python-magic - A Python interface to the libmagic file type identification library. - magika - Detects file content types with a deep-learning model.

Media

Image Processing

Libraries for manipulating images.

Barcodes and QR Codes

- qrcode - A pure Python QR Code generator. - python-barcode - Create barcodes in Python with no extra dependencies.

General

- pillow - Pillow is the friendly PIL fork. - scikit-image - A Python library for (scientific) image processing. - rembg - A tool to remove image backgrounds. - wand - Python bindings for MagickWand, C API for ImageMagick. - pyvips - A binding for libvips, a fast image processing library with low memory needs.

Image Serving

- thumbor - A smart imaging service. It enables on-demand crop, re-sizing and flipping of images.

Audio & Video Processing

Libraries for manipulating audio, video, and their metadata.

Audio

- soundfile - An audio library for reading and writing sound files, based on libsndfile, CFFI, and NumPy. - librosa - Python library for audio and music analysis. - pydub - Manipulate audio with a simple and easy high level interface.

Video

- av - Pythonic bindings for FFmpeg's libraries. - moviepy - A module for script-based movie editing with many formats, including animated GIFs.

Metadata

- mutagen - A Python module to handle audio metadata. - tinytag - A library for reading audio file metadata of MP3, MP4, WAV, OGG, FLAC, WMA, and AIFF files. - beets - A music library manager and MusicBrainz tagger.

Game Development

Awesome game development libraries.

3D Engines

- panda3d - 3D game engine developed jointly by Disney and contributors from around the world.

Game Frameworks

- pyglet - A cross-platform windowing and multimedia library for Python. - pygame-ce - An actively developed drop-in replacement with new features and performance improvements (pygame fork). - pygame - Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing games. - arcade - An easy-to-use library for creating 2D arcade games.

Visual Novels

- renpy - A Visual Novel engine.

Python Language

Implementations

Implementations of Python.

cpython - Default, most widely used implementation of the Python programming language written in C.
micropython - A lean and efficient Python implementation for microcontrollers and constrained systems.
pypy - A very fast and compliant implementation of the Python language.
Cython - Optimizing Static Compiler for Python.
pyodide - Python distribution for the browser and Node.js based on WebAssembly.

Built-in Classes Enhancement

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.
uuid-utils - A fast, Rust-backed drop-in replacement for Python's built-in uuid module.
python-box - Python dictionaries with advanced dot notation access.

Functional Programming

Functional Programming with Python.

functools - (Python standard library) Higher-order functions and operations on callable objects.
more-itertools - More routines for operating on iterables, beyond itertools.
toolz - A collection of functional utilities for iterators, functions, and dictionaries. Also available as cytoolz for Cython-accelerated performance.
funcy - A fancy and practical functional tools.
returns - A set of type-safe monads, transformers, and composition utilities.

Asynchronous Programming

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

Async I/O

- asyncio - (Python standard library) Asynchronous I/O, event loop, coroutines and tasks. - awesome-asyncio - anyio - A high-level async concurrency and networking framework that works on top of asyncio or trio. - uvloop - Ultra fast asyncio event loop. - trio - A friendly library for async concurrency and I/O. - gevent - A coroutine-based Python networking library that uses greenlet. - Twisted - An event-driven networking engine.

Parallelism

- concurrent.futures - (Python standard library) High-level asynchronous execution of callables. - multiprocessing - (Python standard library) Process-based parallelism.

Date and Time

Libraries for working with dates and times.

zoneinfo - (Python standard library) IANA time zone support. Brings the tz database into Python.
python-dateutil - Extensions to the standard Python datetime module.
dateparser - A Python parser for human-readable dates in over 200 language locales.
pendulum - Python datetimes made easy.
whenever - A modern datetime library, type-safe and DST-safe, in Rust or pure Python.

Python Toolchain

Environment Management

Libraries for Python version and virtual environment management.

virtualenv - A tool to create isolated Python environments.
uv - An extremely fast Python version, package and project manager, written in Rust.
pyenv - Simple Python version management.
mise - A polyglot tool version manager that installs Python versions and reads .python-version files.

Package Management

Libraries for package and dependency management.

Package Managers

- pip - The package installer for Python. - uv - An extremely fast Python version, package and project manager, written in Rust. - poetry - Python dependency management and packaging made easy. - hatch - Modern, extensible Python project manager for environments, builds, and publishing. - pipx - Install and Run Python Applications in Isolated Environments. Like npx in Node.js. - conda - Cross-platform, Python-agnostic binary package manager.

Build Backends

- setuptools - The historical and still most widely used pyproject build backend. - hatchling - Modern, extensible build backend from the hatch project. - poetry-core - Poetry's PEP 517 build backend, usable without Poetry itself. - flit-core - Minimal, dependency-free build backend for pure-Python packages. - uv-build - uv's fast, minimal build backend for pure-Python projects.

Package Repositories

Local PyPI repository servers, proxies, and mirrors.

pypiserver - A minimal PyPI server for uploading and installing packages with pip.
devpi - PyPI server and packaging/testing/release tool.
bandersnatch - PyPI mirroring tool provided by Python Packaging Authority (PyPA).

Distribution

Libraries to create packaged executables for release distribution.

Executables

- pyinstaller - Converts Python programs into stand-alone executables (cross-platform). - Nuitka - Compiles Python programs into high-performance standalone executables (cross-platform). - pex - A tool for building self-contained Python executable environments (PEP 441 zipapps). - cx-Freeze - Converts Python scripts into standalone executables and installers for Windows, macOS, and Linux.

Obfuscation

- pyarmor - A tool used to obfuscate Python scripts, bind obfuscated scripts to fixed machine or expire obfuscated scripts.

Configuration Files

Libraries for storing and parsing configuration options.

configparser - (Python standard library) INI file parser.
python-dotenv - Reads key-value pairs from a .env file and sets them as environment variables.
pydantic-settings - Settings management using Pydantic models with validation, loading from environment variables and secrets files.
hydra-core - Hydra is a framework for elegantly configuring complex applications.
dynaconf - Dynaconf is a configuration manager with plugins for Django and Flask.

Security

Cryptography

Libraries for cryptographic primitives and secure protocols.

cryptography - A package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.
pynacl - Python binding to libsodium, a fork of the Networking and Cryptography (NaCl) library.
paramiko - The leading native Python SSHv2 protocol library.
itsdangerous - Safely pass trusted data to untrusted environments and back.

Penetration Testing

Frameworks and tools for penetration testing.

mitmproxy - An interactive TLS-capable intercepting HTTP proxy for penetration testers and software developers.
impacket - A collection of Python classes for working with network protocols, widely used for Windows and Active Directory testing.
sqlmap - Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool.
pwntools - A CTF framework and exploit development library.
sherlock-project - Hunt down social media accounts by username across social networks.

Supply Chain Security

Tools for auditing dependencies against known vulnerabilities and scanning for leaked secrets.

Dependency Audits

- pip-audit - Audits Python environments and dependency trees for known vulnerabilities, using the Python Packaging Advisory Database or OSV. - uv-audit - (part of uv) uv's dependency vulnerability scanning backed by OSV.

Secret Scanning

- betterleaks - Finds leaked secrets in git history, directories, and files, from the original author of gitleaks.

Web Security

Libraries for application-layer web security.

nh3 - Python binding to the ammonia HTML sanitizer, a fast replacement for bleach.
secure - HTTP security headers for Python web applications with ASGI and WSGI middleware.

Other

Hardware

Libraries for programming with hardware.

pyserial - Python serial port access library for Windows, macOS, Linux, and BSD.
pynput - A library to control and monitor input devices.
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.

Microsoft Windows

Python programming on Microsoft Windows.

pywin32 - Python Extensions for Windows.
pythonnet - Python Integration with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR).
pyenv-win - A Python version manager for Windows (rbenv-win fork).
winpython - Portable Python distribution for Windows.

Miscellaneous

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.

Resources

Where to discover learning resources or new Python libraries.

Newsletters

Podcasts

Websites

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