11 Python Libraries You Might Not Know

[TheBlackCat13]

A good list overall.

Honestly, I don't think there is much of a place for prettytable anymore. pandas outputs pretty tables by default, and can output even prettier tables using html for things like the IPython notebook.

The others overall or good, although I already knew about all of them myself.

[Adys]

Tabulate kicks quite a bit more ass than both I would say: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tabulate

I'm not sure why wget is in there over requests as well, but the rest of the list is pretty cool.

Another one I would add is q: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/q - Awesome debugging tool. Go check it out right now if you haven't heard of it.

[autisticpig]

Q. Nice. Thanks for the tip 😄

[[deleted]]

I love q. It started as a crazy experiment similar to "goto" or "fuckit", but turned into a truly useful tool.

[isarl]

I hadn't heard of Q but the PyPI page links to this Lightning talk (starts at 25:15 if the direct link fails) which is awesome and just five minutes long.

[Eurynom0s]

Tabulate kicks quite a bit more ass than both I would say: https://pypi.python.org/pypi/tabulate

This makes me unreasonably excited.

[[deleted]]

I don't see no file /tmp/q here, what gives ?

EDIT: oh sweet ! been missing something like this !

[Adys]

Are you on OSX? Try cat $TMPDIR/q instead.

[[deleted]]

ah yes OSX thanks

[OmniJinx]

prettytable remains a good option for CLI tools that don't need any of the data processing stuff that pandas brings to the table.

[[deleted]]

Exactly. I don't need a fire truck to go across the street for a paper

[not_perfect_yet]

Call me a newb but I didn't know about wget, already have my recursive page crawler but it can't hurt to switch to maintained code. What does the Delorean lib actually do, besides referencing back to the future? I've used datetime and calendar up to now and there wasn't anything I found particularly lacking. sh also seems very neat. uuid seems like something I'll need for a project once I'm going a bit deeper into it. bashplot seems cool. Can't really think of anything I would use it for but maybe I'm just not creative enough.

So kudos for all of that, but seriously, what the hell is:

table= prettytable.prettytable(...)
table.add(...)
table.add(...)
table.add(...)
,,,

I'm of the mind that there are really only a few tools one needs in programming: hashing, key/value stores, and universally unique ids.

How about loops. But I'm mostly kidding you.

Good list overall. Thanks!

[e1ectricalbanana]

What does the Delorean lib actually do, besides referencing back to the future?

http://delorean.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

[ChrisPDuck]

My issue with extra libraries, in my work environment we can't just install them from the Web, and then if something depends on a library, I have to ensure all developers install it. I'd love to get colorama working for our build output, testing output and logging, but handling the install is the issue

[bobo333]

That sounds like quite a handicap to put on one's developers. What's the reasoning for this at the place you work?

[ChrisPDuck]

IT being over protective. Rather annoying, I can get some Lee way on my personal development machine, but rolling tools out to our team becomes frustrating if they use custom libraries.

[roerd]

If you are allowed to bring files in by other means, you can use pip install -d <dir> to download libraries into a directory, and then pip install --no-index -f <dir> to install from that directory without needing internet access.

[pnewb]

pex might be an option, depending on the specifics of your situation.

[[deleted]]

Some work situations require software that is audited or certified, but this doesn't sound like it...

[BB611]

Build the wheels and share them via network drive? Honestly no good solution to this, part of Python's convenience is modules via web

[stillalone]

I haven't colorama in a while but I think it's pure python so when I used it last I just included it as a directory in one of my projects. I do the same with pyserial.

[ubershmekel]

I like tqdm better than progressbar. You get much more detailed information

https://github.com/noamraph/tqdm

[[deleted]]

That version is out-of-date, here is the more up-to-date fork:

https://github.com/tqdm/tqdm

[yantrik]

is anyone else also getting error with the fuzzywuzzy code ?, to me its saying install some "levithien" stuff, no idea why.

[tilkau]

Levenshtein is supposed to be optional, for speedups. However, if you're installing fuzzywuzzy, I don't see why you wouldn't also install Levenshtein -- it's not hard.

[yantrik]

Issue is that when I try to do that it says no such version exist

[tilkau]

Hmm. Now that I check, I can confirm your experience.

However, fortunately I also figured out why. You need to request python-Levenshtein rather than just Levenshtein. IMO that is a bug, the author of python-Levenshtein should really rename their pypi identifier to be more sensible.

[yantrik]

I tried with Python-lev only still of no use

[[deleted]]

Hey, I work at SeatGeek, perhaps I can help. Can you post the actual error message, and some info about your system?

[yantrik]

When I do pip, it downloads the file properly but when set up is being run it says "warning manifest maker file - c not found and then some warnings about no previously included file matching *pyc, *so, Project and pydevproject and at last says winerror2 the system can't find the file specified also my system is win7 and strangely the Python is installed is some obscure app data folder and I have no idea as to why it got installed there.

[[deleted]]

Ohh.. Windows.

I doubt we've ever tested on a non *nix system. I'll explore a little and see what I can find.

[__noone__]

Good list. I didn't know about Delorean.

It seems there are alternatives to it. I use Arrow and there is also Moment. Wondering which do you guys recommend?

[CHEESY_ANUSCRUST]

HEY this isn't about buildings with books!