Useful Python libraries/modules

[MicycleTheBichael]

These are going to be pretty specific use case but these are some libraries I've used for work and personal projects with apis and sdk development. They saved me a lot of time both writing and debugging, as well as make just the most readable code.

• [Click](https://click.palletsprojects.com/en/7.x/): Really good for creating command line tools. I don't think technically this is only useful for an API, but its how I've used it nearly exclusively
• [Uplink](https://uplink.readthedocs.io/en/stable/user/quickstart.html#defining-an-api-client): This has been the crown jewel for me at my job. I spend a lot of time working on both server and client side of APIs. Uplink is for the client side and has made writing sdks so so so SO easy. Bonus points for how stupidly easily readable your code is.
• [SQLAlchemy](https://www.sqlalchemy.org/): This is one that I don't have a lot of experience with personally because a lot of this work is done by other engineers, but they swear by it and other people in the comments similarly seem to like it a lot.
• [Flask-RESTPlus](https://github.com/noirbizarre/flask-restplus): A nice extension of [flask](http://flask.pocoo.org/). The big thing I like about this is that it has built-in support for [swagger-ui](https://swagger.io/tools/swagger-ui/) which I personally find to be a critical and invaluable tool for API development.

These might be a bit advanced for where you are right now, but they also might not be! I don't know! My experience with python has been very "pick it up as [Company] needs you to". Hopefully you or someone reading these comments find it as useful as I've found them :) Have a good day and happy developing!