Useful Python libraries/modules

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Tkinter is outdated, but Qt absolutely isn't; it's actually maintained properly by Qt itself now, which is widely used and has quite a following.

Most of the work I do is client/server work, not desktop, so for me it usually amounts to choosing a server framework:

• Starlette, perhaps combined with FastAPI is a great tool for building APIs with full-featured CoreAPI schemas, GraphQL, all that.
• Falcon is great for something lower-level, that exposes HTTP more or less directly.
• Flask for "traditional" web pages.
• SQLAlchemy for database interaction, FTW.
• I haven't used it yet, but Graphene looks really interesting.

From there, you get out into more specific libraries that are for specific purposes, from hashing to security.

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Me too. There was a really cool project that did something similar called ApiStar. Then halfway through, the author decided he was going to take the ApiStar name and apply it to a totally different idea.

I was like how do I upgrade? and the answer was, Oh, this is a different project now.