# Awesome Python A curated list of awesome Python frameworks, libraries and resources. Inspired by [awesome-php](https://github.com/ziadoz/awesome-php). ![Life is a piece of shit](https://raw.githubusercontent.com/vinta/awesome-python/master/Life%20is%20a%20piece%20of%20shit,%20you%20need%20Python.gif "Life is a piece of shit, you need Python") so you need Python. - [Awesome Python](#awesome-python) - [Environment Management](#environment-management) - [Package Management](#package-management) - [Files](#files) - [Date and Time](#date-and-time) - [Text Processing](#text-processing) - [Natural Language Processing](#natural-language-processing) - [Command-line Tools](#command-line-tools) - [Documentation](#documentation) - [Imagery](#imagery) - [Audio](#audio) - [Video](#video) - [Geolocation](#geolocation) - [HTTP](#http) - [Database Drivers](#database-drivers) - [ORM](#orm) - [Web Frameworks](#web-frameworks) - [CMS](#cms) - [RESTful API](#restful-api) - [Authentication and OAuth](#authentication-and-oauth) - [Template Engine](#template-engine) - [Queue](#queue) - [Search](#search) - [Asset Management](#asset-management) - [Caching](#caching) - [Email](#email) - [Internationalization](#internationalization) - [URL Manipulation](#url-manipulation) - [HTML Manipulation](#html-manipulation) - [Web Crawling](#web-crawling) - [Web Content Extracting](#web-content-extracting) - [Forms](#forms) - [Anti-spam](#anti-spam) - [Networking](#networking) - [Admin Panels](#admin-panels) - [DevOps Tools](#devops-tools) - [GUI](#gui) - [Logging](#logging) - [Testing](#testing) - [Code Analysis and Linter](#code-analysis-and-linter) - [Debugging Tools](#debugging-tools) - [Science and Data Aanalysis](#science-and-data-aanalysis) - [Machine Learning](#machine-learning) - [MapReduce](#mapreduce) - [Third-party APIs](#third-party-apis) - [Algorithms and Design Patterns](#algorithms-and-design-patterns) - [Games](#games) - [Miscellaneous](#miscellaneous) - [Resources](#resources) - [Editor Plugins](#editor-plugins) - [Books](#books) - [Websites](#websites) - [Weekly](#weekly) - [Twitter](#twitter) - [Articles](#articles) ## Environment Management *Libraries for Python version and environment management.* * [pyenv](https://github.com/yyuu/pyenv) - Simple Python version management. * [virtualenv](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenv) - A tool to create isolated Python environments. * [virtualenvwrapper](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/virtualenvwrapper) - A set of extensions to virtualenv ## Package Management *Libraries for package and dependency management.* * [pip](https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/) / [Python Package Index](https://pypi.python.org/pypi) - The package and dependency manager. * [wheel](http://pythonwheels.com/) - The new standard of python distribution and are intended to replace eggs. ## Files *Libraries for file manipulation and MIME type detection.* * [mimetypes](https://docs.python.org/2/library/mimetypes.html) - (Python standard library) Map filenames to MIME types. * [imghdr](https://docs.python.org/2/library/imghdr.html) - (Python standard library) Determine the type of an image. * [python-magic](https://github.com/ahupp/python-magic) - A Python interface to the libmagic file type identification library. * [path.py](https://github.com/jaraco/path.py) - A module wrapper for [os.path](https://docs.python.org/2/library/os.path.html). * [watchdog](https://github.com/gorakhargosh/watchdog) - API and shell utilities to monitor file system events. * [django-storages](http://code.larlet.fr/django-storages/) - A collection of custom storage backends for Django. ## Date and Time *Libraries for working with dates and times.* * [arrow](https://github.com/crsmithdev/arrow) - Better dates & times for Python. * [dateutil](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/python-dateutil) - Extensions to the standard Python [datetime](https://docs.python.org/2/library/datetime.html) module. * [delorean](https://github.com/myusuf3/delorean/) - A library for clearing up the inconvenient truths that arise dealing with datetimes in Python. * [when.py](https://github.com/dirn/When.py) - Providing user-friendly functions to help perform common date and time actions. * [moment](https://github.com/zachwill/moment) - A Python library for dealing with dates/times. Inspired by [Moment.js](http://momentjs.com/). ## Text Processing *Libraries for parsing and manipulating texts.* * [difflib](https://docs.python.org/2/library/difflib.html) - (Python standard library) Helpers for computing deltas. * [Levenshtein](https://github.com/ztane/python-Levenshtein/) - Fast computation of Levenshtein distance and string similarity. * [fuzzywuzzy](https://github.com/seatgeek/fuzzywuzzy) - Fuzzy String Matching. * [esmre](https://code.google.com/p/esmre/) - Regular expression accelerator. * [phonenumbers](https://github.com/daviddrysdale/python-phonenumbers) - Library for parsing, formatting, storing and validating international phone numbers. * [python-user-agents](https://github.com/selwin/python-user-agents) - Browser user agent parser. * [shortuuid](https://github.com/stochastic-technologies/shortuuid) - A generator library for concise, unambiguous and URL-safe UUIDs. * [tablib](https://github.com/kennethreitz/tablib) - A module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML. * [sqlparse](https://sqlparse.readthedocs.org/) - A non-validating SQL parser. * [Pygments](http://pygments.org/) - A generic syntax highlighter. * [python-slugify](https://github.com/un33k/python-slugify) - A Python slugify library that handles unicode. * [unicode-slugify](https://github.com/mozilla/unicode-slugify) - A slugifier that generates unicode slugs. Developed by Mozilla. * [unidecode](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/Unidecode) - ASCII transliterations of Unicode text. * [chardet](https://github.com/chardet/chardet) - Python 2/3 compatible character encoding detector. * [xpinyin](https://github.com/lxneng/xpinyin) - A library to translate chinese hanzi (漢字) to pinyin (拼音). * [pangu.py](https://github.com/vinta/pangu.py) - Spacing texts. * [python-docx](https://github.com/mikemaccana/python-docx) - Reads, queries and modifies Microsoft Word 2007/2008 docx files. * [xlwt / xlrd](http://www.python-excel.org/) - A package is for writing and reading data and formatting information from Excel files. * [XlsxWriter](https://xlsxwriter.readthedocs.org/) - A Python module for creating Excel .xlsx files. * [PyYAML](http://pyyaml.org/) - YAML implementations for Python. ## Natural Language Processing *Libraries for working with human languages.* * [NLTK](http://www.nltk.org/) - A leading platform for building Python programs to work with human language data. * [TextBlob](http://textblob.readthedocs.org/) - Providing a consistent API for diving into common natural language processing (NLP) tasks. * [jieba](https://github.com/fxsjy/jieba#jieba-1) - Chinese Words Segementation Utilities. * [snownlp](https://github.com/isnowfy/snownlp) - A library for processing Chinese text. * [loso](https://github.com/victorlin/loso) - Another Chinese segmentation library. ## Command-line Tools *Libraries for building command line utilities.* * [click](http://click.pocoo.org/) - A package for creating beautiful command line interfaces in a composable way. * [clint](https://github.com/kennethreitz/clint) - Python Command-line Application Tools. * [docopt](http://docopt.org/) - Pythonic command line arguments parser. * [colorama](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/colorama) - Cross-platform colored terminal text. ## Documentation *Libraries for generating project documentation.* * [Sphinx](http://sphinx-doc.org/) - Python Documentation generator. ## Imagery *Libraries for manipulating images.* * [pillow](http://pillow.readthedocs.org/) - Pillow is the **friendly** PIL fork. PIL is the [Python Imaging Library](http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/). * [thumbor](https://github.com/thumbor/thumbor) - A smart imaging service. It enables on-demand crop, resizing and flipping of images. * [imgSeek](http://www.imgseek.net/) - A project for searching a collection of images using visual similarity. * [python-qrcode](https://github.com/lincolnloop/python-qrcode) - A pure Python QR Code generator. * [pygram](https://github.com/ajkumar25/pygram) - Instagram-like image filters. * [Quads](https://github.com/fogleman/Quads) - Computer art based on quadtrees. * [nude.py](https://github.com/hhatto/nude.py) - Nudity detection. * [wand](https://github.com/dahlia/wand) - Python bindings for MagickWand, C API for ImageMagick. ## Audio *Libraries for manipulating audio.* * [django-elastic-transcoder](https://github.com/StreetVoice/django-elastic-transcoder) - Django + AWS Elastic Transcoder. * [beets](http://beets.radbox.org/) - A music library manager and [MusicBrainz](https://musicbrainz.org/) tagger. * [pyechonest](https://github.com/echonest/pyechonest) - Python client for the [Echo Nest](http://developer.echonest.com/docs/) API. * [dejavu](https://github.com/worldveil/dejavu) - Audio fingerprinting and recognition. * [pydub](https://github.com/jiaaro/pydub) - Manipulate audio with a simple and easy high level interface. * [audioread](https://github.com/sampsyo/audioread) - Cross-library (GStreamer + Core Audio + MAD + FFmpeg) audio decoding. * [mutagen](https://code.google.com/p/mutagen/) - A Python module to handle audio metadata. * [tinytag](https://github.com/devsnd/tinytag) - A library for reading music meta data of MP3, OGG, FLAC and Wave files. ## Video *Libraries for manipulating video and GIFs.* * [moviepy](http://zulko.github.io/moviepy/) - A module for script-based movie editing with many formats, including animated GIFs. * [shorten.tv](http://www.shorten.tv/) - Video summarization. * [youtube-dl](http://rg3.github.io/youtube-dl/) - A small command-line program to download videos from YouTube. ## Geolocation *Libraries for geocoding addresses and working with latitudes and longitudes.* * [GeoDjango](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/ref/contrib/gis/) - A world-class geographic web framework. * [geopy](https://github.com/geopy/geopy) - Python Geocoding Toolbox. * [pygeoip](https://github.com/appliedsec/pygeoip) - Pure Python GeoIP API. * [GeoIP](https://github.com/maxmind/geoip-api-python) - Python API for MaxMind GeoIP Legacy Database. * [geojson](https://github.com/frewsxcv/python-geojson) - Python bindings and utlities for GeoJSON. ## HTTP *Libraries for working with HTTP.* * [requests](http://docs.python-requests.org/) - HTTP Requests for Humans™. * [httpie](https://github.com/jakubroztocil/httpie) - A command line HTTP client, a user-friendly cURL replacement. ## Database Drivers *Libraties for connecting and operating databases* * Relational Databases * [mysql-python](http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python/) - The MySQL database connector for Python. * [psycopg2](http://initd.org/psycopg/) - The most popular PostgreSQL adapter for the Python. * NoSQL Databases * [PyMongo](http://docs.mongodb.org/ecosystem/drivers/python/) - The official Python client for MongoDB. * [redis-py](https://github.com/andymccurdy/redis-py) - The Redis Python Client. ## ORM *Libraries that implement Object-Relational Mapping or datamapping techniques.* * Relational Databases * [Django Models](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/db/models/) - A part of Django. * [SQLAlchemy](http://www.sqlalchemy.org/) - The Python SQL Toolkit and Object Relational Mapper. * [peewee](https://github.com/coleifer/peewee) - A small, expressive ORM. * NoSQL Databases * [MongoEngine](http://mongoengine.org/) - A Python Object-Document-Mapper for working with MongoDB. * [redisco](https://github.com/kiddouk/redisco) - A Python Library for Simple Models and Containers Persisted in Redis. ## Web Frameworks *Web development frameworks.* * [Django](https://www.djangoproject.com/) - The most popular web framework in Python. * [Flask](http://flask.pocoo.org/) - A microframework for Python. * [Bottle](http://bottlepy.org/) - A fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web-framework. * [Pyramid](http://www.pylonsproject.org/) - A small, fast, down-to-earth, open source Python web framework. * [web2py](http://www.web2py.com) - A full stack web framework and platform focused in the ease of use. ## CMS *Content Management Systems* * [Mezzanine](http://mezzanine.jupo.org/) - A powerful, consistent, and flexible content management platform. * [Wagtail](http://wagtail.io/) - A Django content management system. * [django-oscar](http://oscarcommerce.com/) - An open-source ecommerce framework for Django. * [Quokka CMS](http://quokkaproject.org) - Flexible, extensible, small CMS powered by Flask and MongoDB. ## RESTful API *Libraries for developing RESTful APIs.* * [django-rest-framework](http://www.django-rest-framework.org/) - A powerful and flexible toolkit that makes it easy to build Web APIs. * [django-tastypie](http://tastypieapi.org/) - Creating delicious APIs for Django apps. * [flask-api](http://www.flaskapi.org/) - An implementation of the same web browsable APIs that django-rest-framework provides. * [flask-restful](http://flask-restful.readthedocs.org/) - An extension for Flask that adds support for quickly building REST APIs. * [falcon](http://falconframework.org/) - A high-performance Python framework for building cloud APIs and web app backends. * [eve](https://github.com/nicolaiarocci/eve) - REST API framework powered by Flask, MongoDB and good intentions. * [sandman](https://github.com/jeffknupp/sandman) - Automated REST APIs for existing database-driven systems. ## Authentication and OAuth *Libraries for implementing authentications schemes.* * [python-social-auth](https://github.com/omab/python-social-auth) - An easy-to-setup social authentication mechanism. * [django-oauth-toolkit](https://github.com/evonove/django-oauth-toolkit) - OAuth2 goodies for the Djangonauts. * [django-oauth2-provider](https://github.com/caffeinehit/django-oauth2-provider) - Providing OAuth2 access to Django app. * [python-oauth2](https://github.com/simplegeo/python-oauth2) - A fully tested, abstract interface to creating OAuth clients and servers. * [rauth](https://github.com/litl/rauth) - A Python library for OAuth 1.0/a, 2.0, and Ofly. ## Template Engine *Libraries and tools for templating and lexing.* * [Jinja2](https://github.com/mitsuhiko/jinja2) - A modern and designer friendly templating language. ## Queue *Libraries for working with event and task queues.* * [celery](http://www.celeryproject.org/) - An asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing. * [rq](http://python-rq.org/) - Simple job queues for Python. ## Search *Libraries and software for indexing and performing search queries on data.* * [django-haystack](https://github.com/toastdriven/django-haystack) - Modular search for Django. * [elasticsearch-py](http://www.elasticsearch.org/guide/en/elasticsearch/client/python-api/current/) - The official low-level Python client for [Elasticsearch](http://www.elasticsearch.org/). * [solrpy](https://code.google.com/p/solrpy/) - A Python client for [solr](http://lucene.apache.org/solr/). * [Whoosh](http://whoosh.readthedocs.org/) - A fast, pure Python search engine library. ## Asset Management *Tools for managing, compressing and minifying website assets.* * [django-compressor](https://github.com/django-compressor/django-compressor) - Compresses linked and inline javascript or CSS into a single cached file. ## Caching *Libraries for caching data.* * [Beaker Caching & Sessions](http://beaker.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) - Beaker is a library for caching and sessions for use with web applications and stand-alone Python scripts and applications. * [HermesCache](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/HermesCache) - Python caching library with tag-based invalidation and dogpile effect prevention. ## Email *Libraries for sending and parsing email.* * [inbox.py](https://github.com/kennethreitz/inbox.py) - Python SMTP Server for Humans. * [imbox](https://github.com/martinrusev/imbox) - Python IMAP for Humans. * [django-celery-ses](https://github.com/StreetVoice/django-celery-ses) - Django email backend with AWS SES and Celery. ## Internationalization *Libraries for woking with i18n.* * [Babel](http://babel.pocoo.org/) - An internationalization library for Python. ## URL Manipulation *Libraries for parsing URLs.* * [furl](https://github.com/gruns/furl) - A small Python library that makes manipulating URLs simple. * [purl](https://github.com/codeinthehole/purl) - A simple, immutable URL class with a clean API for interrogation and manipulation. ## HTML Manipulation *Libraries for working with HTML and XML.* * [BeautifulSoup](http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup/bs4/doc/) - Providing Pythonic idioms for iterating, searching, and modifying HTML or XML. * [lxml](http://lxml.de/) - A very fast, easy-to-use and versatile library for handling HTML and XML. * [html5lib](https://github.com/html5lib/html5lib-python) - A standards-compliant library for parsing and serializing HTML documents and fragments. * [pyquery](https://github.com/gawel/pyquery) - A jQuery-like library for parsing HTML. * [cssutils](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/cssutils/) - A CSS library for Python. * [MarkupSafe](https://github.com/mitsuhiko/markupsafe) - Implements a XML/HTML/XHTML Markup safe string for Python. * [bleach](http://bleach.readthedocs.org/) - A whitelist-based HTML sanitization and text linkification library. * [xmltodict](https://github.com/martinblech/xmltodict) - Working with XML feel like you are working with JSON. ## Web Crawling *Libraries for scraping websites.* * [Scrapy](http://scrapy.org/) - A fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework. * [portia](https://github.com/scrapinghub/portia) - Visual scraping for Scrapy. * [feedparser](http://pythonhosted.org/feedparser/) - Universal feed parser. * [RoboBrowser](https://github.com/jmcarp/robobrowser) - A simple, Pythonic library for browsing the web without a standalone web browser. ## Web Content Extracting *Libraries for extracting web contents.* * [newspaper](https://github.com/codelucas/newspaper) - News extraction, article extraction and content curation in Pythom. * [html2text](https://github.com/aaronsw/html2text) - Convert HTML to Markdown-formatted text. * [python-goose](https://github.com/grangier/python-goose) - HTML Content/Article Extractor. * [lassie](https://github.com/michaelhelmick/lassie) - Web Content Retrieval for Humans. * [micawber](https://github.com/coleifer/micawber) - A small library for extracting rich content from URLs. * [sumy](https://github.com/miso-belica/sumy) - A module for automatic summarization of text documents and HTML pages. * [Haul](https://github.com/vinta/Haul) - An Extensible Image Crawler. * [python-readability](https://github.com/buriy/python-readability) - Fast Python port of arc90's readability tool. ## Forms *Libraries for working with forms.* * [django-crispy-forms](http://django-crispy-forms.readthedocs.org/) - A Django app which lets you create beautiful forms in a very elegant and DRY way. * [WTForms](http://wtforms.readthedocs.org/) - A flexible forms validation and rendering library. ## Anti-spam *Libraries for fighting spam.* * [Stopspam](https://github.com/phalt/stopspam) - Intelligent spam detection for Python. * [django-simple-spam-blocker](https://github.com/moqada/django-simple-spam-blocker) - Simple spam blocker for Django. * [django-simple-captcha](https://github.com/mbi/django-simple-captcha) - A simple and highly customizable Django app to add captcha images to any Django form. ## Networking *Libraries for network programming.* * [gevent](http://www.gevent.org/) - A coroutine-based Python networking library that uses [greenlet](https://github.com/python-greenlet/greenlet). * [Twisted](https://twistedmatrix.com/trac/) - An event-driven networking engine. * [Tornado](http://www.tornadoweb.org/) - A Web framework and asynchronous networking library. * [pyzmq](http://zeromq.github.io/pyzmq/) - A python wrapper for the 0MQ message library. ## Admin Panels *Libraries for administrative interfaces.* * [Ajenti](https://github.com/Eugeny/ajenti) - The admin panel your servers deserve. * [django-xadmin](https://github.com/sshwsfc/django-xadmin) - Drop-in replacement of Django admin comes with lots of goodies. * [flask-admin](https://github.com/mrjoes/flask-admin) - Simple and extensible administrative interface framework for Flask. * [flower](https://github.com/mher/flower) - Real-time monitor and web admin for Celery. ## DevOps Tools *Software and libraries for DevOps* * [OpenStack](http://www.openstack.org/) - Open source software for building private and public clouds. * [Ansible](http://www.ansible.com/) - An IT automation tool. * [SaltStack](http://www.saltstack.com/community/) - Infrastructure automation and management system. * [Fabric](http://www.fabfile.org/) - Tool for streamlining the use of SSH for application deployment or systems administration tasks. * [Fabtools](https://github.com/ronnix/fabtools) - Tools for writing awesome Fabric files. * [cuisine](https://github.com/sebastien/cuisine) - Chef-like functionality for Fabric. * [gunicorn](http://gunicorn.org/) - A WSGI HTTP Server for UNIX, fast clients and sleepy applications. * [Supervisor](http://supervisord.org/) - A Process Control System. * [psutil](https://github.com/giampaolo/psutil) - A cross-platform process and system utilities module. ## GUI *Libraries for working with GUI applications.* * [PySide](http://qt-project.org/wiki/pyside) - Python bindings for the Qt cross-platform application and UI framework. * [wxPython](http://wxpython.org/) - A blending of the wxWidgets C++ class library with the Python. * [kivy](http://kivy.org/) - A library for creating NUI applications, running on Windows, Linux, Mac OS X, Android and iOS. * [curses](https://docs.python.org/2/library/curses.html#module-curses) - Built-in wrapper for [ncurses](http://www.gnu.org/software/ncurses/) used to create terminal GUI applications. * [urwid](http://urwid.org/) - A library for creating terminal GUI applications with strong support for widgets, events, rich colors, etc. ## Logging *Libraries for generating and working with log files.* * [logging](https://docs.python.org/2/library/logging.html) - (Python standard library) Logging facility for Python. * [Sentry](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/sentry) - A realtime logging and aggregation server. * [Raven](http://raven.readthedocs.org/) - The Python client for Sentry. ## Testing *Libraries for testing codebases and generating test data.* * Testing Frameworks * [unittest](https://docs.python.org/2/library/unittest.html) - (Python standard library) Unit testing framework. * [nose](https://nose.readthedocs.org/) - nose extends unittest. * [pytest](http://pytest.org/) - A mature full-featured Python testing tool. * Mock * [mock](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/mock) - A Python Mocking and Patching Library for Testing. * [responses](https://github.com/dropbox/responses) - A utility library for mocking out the requests Python library. * Fake Data * [faker](http://www.joke2k.net/faker/) - A Python package that generates fake data. * [model_mommy](https://model-mommy.readthedocs.org/) - Creating random fixtures for testing in Django. * Code Coverage * [coverage](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/coverage) - Code coverage measurement. ## Code Analysis and Linter *Libraries and tools for analysing, parsing and manipulation codebases.* * [Flake8](https://pypi.python.org/pypi/flake8) - The modular source code checker: pep8, pyflakes and co. * [Pylint](http://www.pylint.org/) - A source code analyzer. ## Debugging Tools *Libraries for dubugging and developing* * [pdb](https://docs.python.org/2/library/pdb.html) - (Python standard library) The Python Debugger. * [pyringe](https://github.com/google/pyringe) - Debugger capable of attaching to and injecting code into Python processes. * [django-debug-toolbar](https://github.com/django-debug-toolbar/django-debug-toolbar) - Display various debug information about the current request/response. * [django-devserver](https://github.com/dcramer/django-devserver) - A drop-in replacement for Django's runserver. ## Science and Data Aanalysis *Libraries for scientific computing and data analyzing.* * [SciPy](http://www.scipy.org/) - A Python-based ecosystem of open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering. * [NumPy](http://www.numpy.org/) - A fundamental package for scientific computing with Python. * [Numba](http://numba.pydata.org/) - Python JIT (just in time) complier to LLVM aimed at scientific Python by the developers of Cython and NumPy. * [matplotlib](http://matplotlib.org/) - A Python 2D plotting library. * [NetworkX](https://networkx.github.io/) - A high-productivity software for complex networks. * [Pandas](http://pandas.pydata.org/) - A library providing high-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools. * [PyMC](https://github.com/pymc-devs/pymc) - Markov Chain Monte Carlo sampling toolkit. * [zipline](https://github.com/quantopian/zipline) - A Pythonic algorithmic trading library. * [ggplot](https://github.com/yhat/ggplot) - Same API as ggplot2 for R. * [PyDy](https://pydy.org/) - Short for Python Dynamics, used to assist with workflow in the modeling of dynamic motion based around NumPy, SciPy, IPython, and matplotlib. ## Machine Learning *Libraries for Machine Learning* * [scikit-learn](http://scikit-learn.org/) - A Python module for machine learning built on top of SciPy. * [pattern](https://github.com/clips/pattern) - Web mining module for Python. * [NuPIC](https://github.com/numenta/nupic) - Numenta Platform for Intelligent Computing. * [Pylearn2](https://github.com/lisa-lab/pylearn2) - A Machine Learning library based on [Theano](https://github.com/Theano/Theano). * [hebel](https://github.com/hannes-brt/hebel) - GPU-Accelerated Deep Learning Library in Python. * [gensim](https://github.com/piskvorky/gensim) - Topic Modelling for Humans. * [PyBrain](https://github.com/pybrain/pybrain) - Another Python Machine Learning Library. * [Crab](https://github.com/muricoca/crab) - A flexible, fast recommender engine. * [python-recsys](https://github.com/ocelma/python-recsys) - A Python library for implementing a Recommender System. ## MapReduce *Framworks and libraries for MapReduce.* * [PySpark](http://spark.apache.org/docs/latest/programming-guide.html) - The Spark Python API. * [dpark](https://github.com/douban/dpark) - Python clone of Spark, a MapReduce alike framework in Python. * [luigi](https://github.com/spotify/luigi) - A module that helps you build complex pipelines of batch jobs. * [mrjob](https://github.com/Yelp/mrjob) - Run MapReduce jobs on Hadoop or Amazon Web Services. * [dumbo](https://github.com/klbostee/dumbo) - Python module that allows one to easily write and run Hadoop programs. ## Third-party APIs *Libraries for accessing third party APIs.* * [apache-libcloud](https://libcloud.apache.org/) - One Python library for all clouds. * [boto](https://github.com/boto/boto) - Python interface to Amazon Web Services. * [s3cmd](https://github.com/s3tools/s3cmd) - A command line tool for managing Amazon S3 and CloudFront. * [twython](https://github.com/ryanmcgrath/twython) - A Python wrapper for the Twitter API. * [soundcloud-python](https://github.com/soundcloud/soundcloud-python) - A Python wrapper around the Soundcloud API * [google-api-python-client](https://github.com/google/google-api-python-client) - Google APIs Client Library for Python * [facebook-sdk](https://github.com/pythonforfacebook/facebook-sdk) - Facebook Platform Python SDK ## Algorithms and Design Patterns *Collections of algorithms and design patterns.* * [python-patterns](https://github.com/faif/python-patterns) - A collection of design patterns in Python. * [algorithms](https://github.com/nryoung/algorithms) - module of algorithms for Python. ## Games *Libraries for developing games.* * [Pygame](http://www.pygame.org/news.html) - Popular 2D game engine based on SDL with additional tools for handling sprites, collisions, etc. * [PySDL2](http://pysdl2.readthedocs.org/en/latest/) - A ctypes based wrapper for the SDL2 library. * [Panda3D](https://www.panda3d.org/) - 3D game engine developed by Disney and maintained by Carnegie Mellon's Entertainment Technology Center. Written in C++, completely wrapped in Python. * [PyOgre](http://www.ogre3d.org/tikiwiki/PyOgre) - Python bindings for the Ogre 3D render engine, can be used for games, simulations, anything 3D. * [pyglet](http://www.pyglet.org/) - Cross platform windowing and multimedia library for Python. * [PyOpenGL](http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/) - Python ctypes bindings for OpenGL and it's related APIs. ## Miscellaneous *Useful libraries or tools that don't fit in the categories above.* * [IPython](https://github.com/ipython/ipython) - IPython provides a rich toolkit to help you make the most out of using Python interactively. # Resources ## Editor Plugins * Vim * TODO * Emacs * TODO * Sublime Text * [SublimeJEDI](https://github.com/srusskih/SublimeJEDI) - A Sublime Text plugin to the awesome autocomplete library [Jedi](https://github.com/davidhalter/jedi). * [Anaconda](https://github.com/DamnWidget/anaconda) - Anaconda turns your Sublime Text 3 in a full featured Python development IDE. * [Djaneiro](https://github.com/squ1b3r/Djaneiro) - Django support for Sublime Text. ## Books * TODO ## Websites * [r/Python](http://www.reddit.com/r/python) - News about Python. * [pyvideo.org](http://pyvideo.org/) - Python related video indexed so you can find it. * [The Hitchhiker's Guide to Python!](http://docs.python-guide.org/) - The answer to life, the universe, and everything. * [Python 3 Wall of Superpowers](http://python3wos.appspot.com/) - Too many popular Python packages don't support Python 3. * [Trending Python repositories on GitHub today](https://github.com/trending?l=python) - Good place to find new Python libraries. * [Django Packages](https://www.djangopackages.com/) - A directory of reusable apps, sites, tools, and more for Django projects. ## Weekly * [Pycoder's Weekly](http://pycoders.com/) - A free weekly newsletter, on Fridays, for those interested in Python development and various topics around Python. * [Python Weekly](http://www.pythonweekly.com/) - A free weekly newsletter featuring curated news, articles, new releases, jobs etc related to Python. ## Twitter * [@gvanrossum](https://twitter.com/gvanrossum) - Python BDFL. * [@pypi](https://twitter.com/pypi) * [@getpy](https://twitter.com/getpy) * [@planetpython](https://twitter.com/planetpython) * [@pycoders](https://twitter.com/pycoders) * [@PythonWeekly](https://twitter.com/PythonWeekly) ## Articles * [More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3](http://lucumr.pocoo.org/2014/1/5/unicode-in-2-and-3/) # Contributing Your contributions are always welcome!