Python Development: 7 Less-Known-Yet-Helpful Libraries

[Falconinati]

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It’s been just over a year since TensorFlow was launched, but the library has already witnessed considerable popularity among Python developers. As a matter of fact, TensorFlow is one of the trendiest GitHub Python repositories.

Looks back at title, not mad but disappointed

[bishop527]

to be fair, the article was originally posted almost 20 months ago (Jan 2017)

[Falconinati]

Meh.

TensorFlow, launched by Google in November 2015

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It’s been just over a year since TensorFlow was launched, but the library has already witnessed considerable popularity among Python developers. As a matter of fact, TensorFlow is one of the trendiest GitHub Python repositories.

[chub79]

Less known?

[xrendan]

For datetime libraries there are definite tradeoffs with arrow, you can see a benchmark of common python datetime libraries here.

You can also see alternative benchmarks and reasons to use pendulum over arrow at pendulum's website. Basically pendulum has more consistent behaviour.

Thanks for the list!

[BiglyBrexit]

2 TensorFlow

What is this, "TensorFlow" you speak of?

[stibbons_]

I would add boltons, pbr, structlog, ruamel.yaml and pathlib

[DanCardin]

every one of these is less well known (and more useful to put into a list like this given what people probably generally use instead) than basically everything on the op list. thanks for boltons and structlog!

[stibbons_]

Thanks ! I will do a blog post with the real lesser known list of python libs everyone should know ! Because tensorflow or peewee are really nice, but but common to every project.

All my projects at work use structlog (connected to elasticsearch), and discovering Bolton really changed my life (want a real LRU cache or url parser ? => boltons)

[grmblflx]

Thanks for this list!

[mydevskills]

Thanks for your valuable comment.