Life is short，you need Python
                               -- Bruce Eckel

Python makes your life easy, but these Python frameworks, libraries, software and resources make it even easier.

If you want a more comprehensive list, go to Awesome Python

• Elite Python
  • Admin Panels
  • Code Analysis
  • Command-line Interface Development
  • Command-line Tools
  • Cryptography
  • Data Analysis
  • Data Visualization
  • Database
  • Date and Time
  • DevOps Tools
  • Downloader
  • Editor Plugins and IDEs
  • Environment Management
  • Logging
  • Package Management
  • Package Repositories
  • Penetration Testing
  • Processes
  • Refactoring
  • RESTful API
  • Search
  • Shell
  • Specific Formats Processing
  • Static Site Generator
  • Tagging
  • Template Engine
  • web content extracting
  • web crawling
  • web frameworks
  • websocket
  • wsgi servers

Libraries for administrative interfaces.

• ajenti - The admin panel your servers deserve.
• django-grappelli - A jazzy skin for the Django Admin-Interface.
• jet-bridge - Admin panel framework for any application with nice UI (ex Jet Django).

• Code Analysis
  • vulture - A tool for finding and analysing dead Python code.
• Code Linters
  • flake8 - A wrapper around pycodestyle, pyflakes and McCabe.
    • awesome-flake8-extensions
• Code Formatters
  • black - The uncompromising Python code formatter.
• Static Type Checkers, also see awesome-python-typing
  • mypy - Check variable types during compile time.

Libraries for building command-line applications.

• Command-line Application Development
  • click - A package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way.
  • typer - Based on Python type hints.
  • python-fire - A library for creating command line interfaces from absolutely any Python object.
  • python-prompt-toolkit - A library for building powerful interactive command lines.
• Terminal Rendering
  • alive-progress - A new kind of Progress Bar, with real-time throughput, eta and very cool animations.
  • asciimatics - A package to create full-screen text UIs (from interactive forms to ASCII animations).
  • bashplotlib - Making basic plots in the terminal.
  • colorama - Cross-platform colored terminal text.
  • 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.

Useful CLI-based tools for productivity.

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

• cryptography - A package designed to expose cryptographic primitives and recipes to Python developers.
• paramiko - The leading native Python SSHv2 protocol library.

Libraries for data analyzing.

• Numpy - A fundamental package for scientific computing with Python.
• Pandas - A library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools.

Libraries for visualizing data. Also see awesome-javascript.

• Matplotlib - A Python 2D plotting library.
• mplfinance - matplotlib utilities for the visualization, and visual analysis, of financial data.
• Seaborn - Statistical data visualization using Matplotlib.
• Bokeh - Interactive Web Plotting for Python.
• Dash - Built on top of Flask, React and Plotly aimed at analytical web applications.
  • awesome-dash

Databases implemented in Python.

• 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.

Libraries for working with dates and times.

• Arrow - A Python library that offers a sensible and human-friendly approach to creating, manipulating, formatting and converting dates, times and timestamps.
• dateutil - Extensions to the standard Python datetime module.
• delorean - A library for clearing up the inconvenient truths that arise dealing with datetimes.
• Pendulum - Python datetimes made easy.
• pytz - Brings the IANA tz database into Python.

Software and libraries for DevOps.

• Configuration Management
  • ansible - A radically simple IT automation platform.
• SSH-style Deployment
  • fabric - A simple, Pythonic tool for remote execution and deployment.
• Process Management
  • supervisor - Supervisor process control system for UNIX.
• Monitoring
  • psutil - A cross-platform process and system utilities module.
• Backup
  • BorgBackup - A deduplicating archiver with compression and encryption.
• Container
  • Docker - Docker helps developers bring their ideas to life by conquering the complexity of app development.
  • docker-compose - Fast, isolated development environments using Docker.

Libraries for downloading.

• akshare - A financial data interface library, built for human beings!
• you-get - A YouTube/Youku/Niconico video downloader written in Python 3.
• youtube-dl - A small command-line program to download videos from YouTube.

• Emacs
  • elpy - Emacs Python Development Environment.
• Vim
  • jedi-vim - Vim bindings for the Jedi auto-completion library for Python.
  • python-mode - An all in one plugin for turning Vim into a Python IDE.
  • YouCompleteMe - Includes Jedi-based completion engine for Python.
• Visual Studio Code
  • Python - The official VSCode extension with rich support for Python.
• IDE
  • PyCharm - Commercial Python IDE by JetBrains. Has free community edition available.
  • spyder - Open Source Python IDE.
  • Thonny - Python IDE for beginners.

Libraries for Python version and virtual environment management.

• venv - A Standard Python virtual environment module.
• pyenv - Simple Python version management.
• virtualenv - A tool to create isolated Python environments.

Libraries for generating and working with logs.

• logging - (Python standard library) Logging facility for Python.
• loguru - Library which aims to bring enjoyable logging in Python.
• sentry-python - Sentry SDK for Python.
• structlog - Structured logging made easy.

Libraries for package and dependency management.

• pip - The package installer for Python.
  • pip-tools - A set of tools to keep your pinned Python dependencies fresh.
  • PyPI
• conda - Cross-platform, Python-agnostic binary package manager.
• poetry - Python dependency management and packaging made easy.

Local PyPI repository server and proxies.

• bandersnatch - PyPI mirroring tool provided by Python Packaging Authority (PyPA).
• devpi - PyPI server and packaging/testing/release tool.
• localshop - Local PyPI server (custom packages and auto-mirroring of pypi).
• warehouse - Next generation Python Package Repository (PyPI).

Frameworks and tools for penetration testing.

• fsociety - A Penetration testing framework.
• setoolkit - A toolkit for social engineering.
• sqlmap - Automatic SQL injection and database takeover tool.

Libraries for starting and communicating with OS processes.

• sarge - Yet another wrapper for subprocess.
• sh - A full-fledged subprocess replacement for Python.

Refactoring tools and libraries for Python

• Bowler - Safe code refactoring for modern Python.
• Rope - Rope is a python refactoring library.

Libraries for building RESTful APIs.

• Django
  • django-rest-framework - A powerful and flexible toolkit to build web APIs.
  • django-tastypie - Creating delicious APIs for Django apps.
• Flask
  • eve - REST API framework powered by Flask, MongoDB and good intentions.
  • flask-api - Browsable Web APIs for Flask.
  • flask-restful - Quickly building REST APIs for Flask.
• Pyramid
  • cornice - A RESTful framework for Pyramid.
• Framework agnostic
  • falcon - A high-performance framework for building cloud APIs and web app backends.
  • fastapi - A modern, fast, web framework for building APIs w(ith Python 3.6+ based on standard Python type hints.
  • Starlette - Starlette is a lightweight ASGI framework/toolkit, which is ideal for building async web services in Python.
  • sanic - A Python 3.6+ web server and web framework that's written to go fast.

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

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

Shells based on Python.

• xonsh - A Python-powered, cross-platform, Unix-gazing shell language and command prompt.

Libraries for parsing and manipulating specific text formats.

• General
  • tablib - A module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML.
• Office
  • docxtpl - Editing a docx document by jinja2 template
  • openpyxl - A library for reading and writing Excel 2010 xlsx/xlsm/xltx/xltm files.
  • pyexcel - Providing one API for reading, manipulating and writing csv, ods, xls, xlsx and xlsm files.
  • python-docx - Reads, queries and modifies Microsoft Word 2007/2008 docx files.
  • python-pptx - Python library for creating and updating PowerPoint (.pptx) files.
  • unoconv - Convert between any document format supported by LibreOffice/OpenOffice.
  • XlsxWriter - A Python module for creating Excel .xlsx files.
  • xlwings - A BSD-licensed library that makes it easy to call Python from Excel and vice versa.
  • xlwt / xlrd - Writing and reading data and formatting information from Excel files.
• PDF
  • pdfminer.six - A tool for extracting information from PDF documents.
  • PyPDF2 - A library capable of splitting, merging and transforming PDF pages.
  • ReportLab - Allowing Rapid creation of rich PDF documents.
• Markdown
  • Mistune - Fastest and full featured pure Python parsers of Markdown.
  • Python-Markdown - A Python implementation of John Gruber’s Markdown.
  • Python-Markdown2 - A fast and complete Python implementation of Markdown.
  • Marko - Marko is a markdown parser written in pure Python that complies with CommonMark's spec v0.30. It is designed to be highly extensible.
• YAML
  • PyYAML - YAML implementations for Python.
• CSV
  • csvkit - Utilities for converting to and working with CSV.
• Archive
  • unp - A command line tool that can unpack archives easily.

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.
• mkdocs - Markdown friendly documentation generator.
• nikola - A static website and blog generator.
• pelican - Static site generator that supports Markdown and reST syntax.
• makesite - Simple, lightweight, and magic-free static site/blog generator (< 130 lines).

Libraries for tagging items.

• django-taggit - Simple tagging for Django.

Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.

• Jinja2 - A modern and designer friendly templating language.

libraries for extracting web contents.

• python-readability - Fast python port of arc90's readability tool.
• sumy - A module for automatic summarization of text documents and html pages.

libraries to automate web scraping.

• scrapy - A fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework.

traditional full stack web frameworks. also see restful api.

• django - The most popular web framework in python.
  • awesome-django
  • awesome-django
• flask - A microframework for python.
  • awesome-flask
• pyramid - A small, fast, down-to-earth, open source python web framework.
  • awesome-pyramid
• Bottle - Bottle is a fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework for Python.

libraries for working with websocket.

• channels - Developer-friendly asynchrony for django.
• websockets - A library for building websocket servers and clients with a focus on correctness and simplicity.

wsgi-compatible web servers.

• gunicorn - Pre-forked, ported from ruby's unicorn project.
• uwsgi - A project aims at developing a full stack for building hosting services, written in c.
• waitress - Multi-threaded, powers pyramid.
• werkzeug - A wsgi utility library for python that powers flask and can easily be embedded into your own projects.
• uvicorn - An ASGI web server implementation for Python.