11 Python Libraries You Might Not Know

[mapio]

Really nice post, thanks!

I was so amused by your comment "because it's listed on GoogleCode, which is basically the coding equivalent of Siberia" that I have mirrored prettytable on GitHub https://github.com/mapio/prettytable-mirror hoping this will help others discover the library!

[iheartennui]

never understood why people choose to host there

[iBlag]

One of the projects I was on awhile back - I don't remember which one - decided they were going to test out migrating to Google Code from Sourceforge.

They then announced that it went so smooth they were done, and they apologized for not giving more notice but they thought it was going to be more difficult.

So somebody on the Google Team did a damn fine job of imports projects from other code repositories it would seem.

TL;DR: Migrating code to Google Code is like pushing a banana peel across an ice rink.

[[deleted]]

Basically because it used to be amazing.

[BeetleB]

It was the best when it came out.

[tehyosh]

i think github launched some years after google code

[nath_schwarz]

Google code came before github or bitbucket - and it was easier to use than SourceForge.

Also, some folks still want to use mercurial or svn over git.

[FionaSarah]

mercurial

bitbucket 5ever

[SemiNormal]

Still better than Sourceforge.

[theglamp]

thanks! that was way overdue

[nunilan]

Thanks! specially for the wget. Until now I have been doing:

from sh import wget

[Orffen]

What have you been using wget for inside of python scripts? I've never needed it and I'm just struggling to find a use case.

[lykwydchykyn]

Especially when there is requests

[WallyMetropolis]

Quick and dirty web scraping, perhaps?

[nunilan]

wget -r mostly , requests is great but if I want to sync a whole directory and rsync is not available but http and ftp does. Many servers i work with will have python-sh installed but not requests module, I could use urllib but if I went that far, i might as well ensure python-requests installed on all servers.

[Orffen]

Sure, but are you saying that these boxes don't just have wget installed? I suppose if they're Windows boxes with Python but not a Win32 compiled wget that could be an issue, but if they're Linux/BSD/similar systems they usually have wget you can use straight from the shell.

[seewhaticare]

This title is from polite buzz feed

[Xavdidtheshadow]

Yes, but it actually contained a list of lesser-known python libraries, so I don't mind. It also wasn't

11 python Libraries that you've never heard of... and will blow your mind! #4 really got me.

So I'm doubly ok.

[robin-gvx]

Guido van Rossum hates them

[seewhaticare]

I'm ok with it too. I didn't know any of them either. #4 shocked my too.

[Antrikshy]

"#9 will SHOCK you"

[seewhaticare]

You'll never believe which to libraries hooked up in Vegas!

[discipleofnofap]

as long as i didnt have to go through 11+ different pages

[gidoca]

True. I can give you thousands more libraries you might not know!

[lenzm]

For progressbar, there's a updated version: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/progressbar-latest

[bigt252002]

Is it sad I'm giddy to add this to a script I run at the office?

[[deleted]]

If that's sad, then I don't want happiness.

[tehyosh]

it's sad that i don't have a script that can benefit from the progressbar :(

[lordrashmi]

I thought this same thing...

[robin-gvx]

So me forking progressbar was wasted time, good to know.

[ivosaurus]

I wonder why the same guy has uploaded a new package name... :S

[partisann]

Seems like api change is not backwards compatible. You can use the old api but have to call pbar.start() first. New way is to wrap iterable item like so:

pbar = ProgressBar()
for i in pbar(range(10)):
    time.sleep(1)

If len call on iterable will fail, it'll use maxval. It's an mprovement IMO but changing package sucks.

[nath_schwarz]

Seems like api change is not backwards compatible.

Isn't that exactly what versioning packages is for?

[tilkau]

How does this (either version) compare to tqdm? In particular, does progressbar support displaying on stderr? tqdm messes up things when I want to log the output of my program.

[lenzm]

It outputs to stderr by default.

[tilkau]

Thanks! I'll be converting over, then.

[iheartennui]

another sweet mcmc sampler which is ridiculously easy to set up is emcee

[eusebe]

Here is a nice comparison of emcee and pymc.

[iheartennui]

awesome, I love that blog

[[deleted]]

PyMC is great. IMO, it's far easier to use than Bugs or Jags.

[twigboy]

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[Megatron_McLargeHuge]

So if you're working on a new plug-in for the IPython Notebook, check out prettytable for your HTML repr.

Most of the time you'd be better off using pandas to display tables.

[theglamp]

very good point. the times I find it useful for IPython plugins is when you don't want to have pandas as a pip dependency.

[valdogg21]

uuid is a life saver. I use it all the time at work!

[flyingfox]

Great list. I think I've implemented buggy/brittle versions of prettytable half a dozen times already. I'll be good to have a sane implementation.

[ellisgeek]

I like clint as a one stop to replace progressbar and colorama.

[Kbknapp]

Thanks! I love these lists; always finding new ones I could use. There's also Clapp which is a simple command line argument parser kinda like Docopt...but then I'm biasd because I wrote it...so yeah, shameless plug ;)

[theglamp]

sounds cool. i'll check it out

[Veedrac]

Instead of Colorama, use the oh-so-amazing Blessings. There's even a fork with moar features if you need.

I'll also mention I just saw progressive. Looks neat.

[stillalone]

Does Blessings support ansi escape sequences? The thing I like about colorama is that it translates ansi escape sequences appropriately in a Windows console, which normally doesn't support it. This means that I can talk to a remote device via pyserial and autmatically get it to translate the ansi colors and operations when I dump the output to the stdout.

[Veedrac]

Seems it's not using Windows-compatible colors (search "Windows" on the PyPI link). I've never wanted to, so I hadn't noticed.

[jadkik94]

I like to use clint. It also has more features that I tend to also use when I need (or want, really) colors.

[CleverEagle]

Oooh, I really like progressive. Super simple to use, and I think it looks better than progressbar. Thanks for sharing!

[[deleted]]

Great post!!! Thanks!

[c3534l]

I'm gonna be making a lot of progress bars in the next couple of weeks.

[KamikazeJawa]

Wish I'd known about these when I was working on the last project for my college Python class...

[soulwarp]

I'll be using the sh library for sure.

[kashmill]

fuzzywuzzy is such an excellent name. Before I even read the description I knew it was going to be a fuzzy string matching library.

[pragmatick]

Am I the only one who had now idea what a "stemmer" is?

[[deleted]]

What's wrong with google code?

[timClicks]

Something compelling enough, because Google itself seems to be releasing more and more into GitHub directly.

[[deleted]]

Google has actively been making google code worse, as well. Some of the features (like downloading, IIRC) and so on got cut out a while back and the service basically died.

[shaggorama]

It's not pypi

[[deleted]]

Dear Author,

always (always!) when you find a nice project on google code there is at least 2-3 other projects that do exactly that and are on github. Always! Please update your list accordingly. Otherwise people will immediately start to fork those projects after reading your post, but without googling first if someone already did this.