Python is one of my favorite programming languages due to its terseness and amazing flexibility.
See also Django for more.
My Stuff:
Sushy
my current wiki engine.
Yaki
my previous wiki engine.
rss2imap
The way I used read my news in 2015
MailArchive
a quick hack to file web pages as MIME compliant e-mail messages.
IMAP Backup
another quick hack that apparently filled a long-standing need.
Growl native protocol implementation
this spawned numerous variants, including a proxy.
PicoRendezvous.py
a minimalist (and dumb) Bonjour / Rendezvous client.
PNGCanvas
a native Python PNG creation module.
PicoStats
a minimalist Apache log parser.
The Python Grimoire
which I converted into TiddlyWiki format
newspipe
which I used daily for a couple of years and occasionally contributed to
Resources:
Category
Link
Notes
Interpreters & Compilers
Js2Py
A JavaScript interpreter written in pure Python
Hope
A specialized JIT compiler
Nuitka
An interesting batch compiler.
tinypy
Python in 64K of code.
Skulpt
Some interesting twists on using Python on the way to JavaScript.
Pyjamas
Web Application Frameworks
Moya
a new(ish), template-centric web framework with some interesting twists
django-micro
A lightweight wrapper to use Django as you would Bottle
Wagtail
Another Django-based CMS framework.
wid.gy
A Django-based CMS framework.
pecan
Based on object dispatching
wheezy.web
A high-performance framework that seems to get along well with PyPy
sandman
A simple RESTful wrapper
eve
Another RESTful foundation framework
Bottle
Tiny, flexible, awesome. My favorite since 2011.
Tornado
non-blocking, which is pretty interesting.
Django
The new hotness.
Snakelets
A minimalistic app server, my old web platform of choice.
Draco
Old and busted, to various extents.
medusa
CherryPy
Karrigell
Twisted
Zope
Machine Learning
discomll
A ML framework for Disco
Debugging Tools
Eww
Insert a REPL into a running application
lptrace
A pretty amazing single-file strace-like tool for Python
pudb
A console debugger
assertEquals
a testing framework with a great screencast
Hypothesis
A very nice testing framework
Pycallgraph
Generate a program flow graph via Graphviz
REPLs
ptpython
The Python Prompt Toolkit
bpython
My favorite REPL
Concurrency
aioprocessing
asyncio equivalents of the multiprocessing library
offset
ports of the Go concurrency model
goless
OpenReplica
A coordination service that provides replication and synchronization support for large-scale distributed systems
Pulsar
Another actor-based multiprocessing library with async IO support and a fair degree of network transparency
Pykka
An implementation of the Actor model, with gevent support
Celery
My current go-to library for task queueing
Littleworkers
Parallel job management without the hassles.
python-rq
A simpler queueing library
Console
click
A very nice way to do composable CLI tools
fabulous
Totally awesome. PRINT IMAGES TO CONSOLE!
plumbum
Another command wrapper, with SSH support.
pbs
A nice, simple and consistent generic command wrapper.
Clint
A great module for developing CLI applications.
Colorama
Making ANSI color sequences work across platforms (see also this gist).
Functional Programming
pyrsistent
A persistent data structure library
Toolz
A functional complement to the standard library.
Hy
An awesome LISP dialect that sits atop the runtime.
funcy
A nice, fairly complete functional library
Data Handling
Schematics
A validation/schema handling library.
voluptuous
A data schema validation library.
xlwings
An Excel plugin
fuzzywuzzy
A fuzzy string matching library
snakebite
A native HDFS client to access the Hadoop datastore.
Happy
A Hadoop library to run map-reduce jobs via Jython
PyCascading
A better way to write Hadoop jobs.
Graphics
Vapory
A library to generate photorealistic renderings using POV-Ray
Cropmap
Face-aware image cropping.
Pygal
An SVG charting library with a variety of built-in formats.
pyprocessing
A Processing clone in Python.
smc.freeimage
A wrapper for the freeimage library that can handle various TIFF and fax formats as well as ICC color profiles
Graphite
a real-time graphing system similar to RRDTool.
SciPy
scientific (including plotting) libraries for Python. Most impressive.
Pyx
Oldie, but goodie.
Skip’s Python Bits
lots of useful snippets
pygame
a game-oriented library with SDL support
Database
Peewee
A small, very flexible ORM
tinydb
A (very) lightweight document oriented database
Goatfish
An even smaller schemaless ORM
SQLAlchemy
See tutorial
Sybase module
I’ve used all of these at any one time, and pymssql worked out better for me.
FreeTDS
pymssql
GIS
reverse-geocoder
A fast offline reverse geocoder
geopy
an amazingly flexible geocoding library.
GUI Stuff
PySide
A recent Qt binding (up to and including 4.7) with QML support
kivy
A sophisticated UI/UX library with Android support
pyglet
a cross-platform windowing and multimedia library with OpenGL support
PythonCard
A bit basic, but interesting.
urwid
A curses based library for building console UIs
winGuiAuto.py
for Windows automation.
VPython
3D OpenGL libraries for quick visualization.
Networking
ThriftPy
A pure Python implementation of Apache Thrift
pyrobuf
a Cython implementation of Google’s protobuf library
SleekXMPP
A more modern XMPP library
pyxmpp2
another one, probably more interesting.
pyvnc
ctypes interface to the VNC libraries
pyapns
An Apple Push Notification Service provider based on Twisted.
gunicorn
A WSGI server for UNIX that supports a number of different worker daemons and is highly customizable.
uwsgi
A C application container that speaks WSGI (and seems seriously kick-ass).
msnlib
An MSN protocol implementation
ircutils
A relatively modern IRC framework that uses asyncore
IMAPClient
An IMAP wrapper library
Python smtplib progress indication
Might come in useful some day.
RPyC
an awesome RPC library
Eventlet
Amazing event-oriented framework
dpkt
packet creation and parsers
Pcapy
a packet manipulation library
Tftpy
a pure Python TFTP library, useful for implementing UDP file transfer testbeds.
ftputil
a high-level interface to the ftplib module
telnetscript
a simple module to do scripted telnet sessions.
FAPWS
a very fast asynchronous web server with a small codebase.
simple non-blocking HTTP server
another simple server.
PuSSH
SSH wrapper.
POP
a POP3 class with neat semantics.
PyRendezvous
neat little Bonjour module I use a lot.
IPy
an IP address manipulation library.
Data formats
biplist
A library that can manage Mac binary .plist files
xlwt
a library to parse Excel documents (cheatsheet).
pyparsing
a handy, flexible parser library that does away with lex/yacc.
Unicode
Unidecode
Does character transliterations.
Reporting
Relatorio
A very neat reporting library with multiple output formats
HTML and XML
BeautifulSoup
The most powerful HTML parser out there.
pholcidae
A web crawler library.
squeezeit
A CSS and JavaScript bundler and minifier.
mxTidy
HTML Tidy for Python
pygments
Python syntax highlighter able to handle multiple nested languages
pyquery
A jQuery-like library for manipulating documents.
cssutils
a CSS Cascading Style Sheets parser.
Mechanize
a programmatic web browser for screen scraping.
Gnosis Utilities
all sorts of XML goodies.
lxml
a different libxml binding.
PDF
xhtml2pdf
Aalternatives to PrinceXML for generating formated PDF docs.
WeasyPrint
PDFMiner
a parser and text renderer that can identify location of text on a page and do basic rendering to HTML
PyPdf
a PDF toolkit
Kiva
a Display PDF library.
ReportLab Toolkit
a pure Python PDF library that includes a presentation tool.
Media
subliminal
A library for looking up movie subtitles in various languages.
Tools
pydown
An HTML presentation generator
Techniques
daemon.py, an example daemon script.
Pydoc – built-in Web help, anytime, anywhere
How to Write a Spelling Corrector – an interesting technique that can come in handy to fix/suggest search terms, etc.
Python Webcam Color Track
Python webcam fun – motion detection
Notable Apps:
Date
Link
Notes
2014
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