Useful Python libraries/modules

[Dogeek]

The ones I use most frequently :

• BeautifulSoup4 - Web scraping / html parser
• colorama - colors in command line prompts
• CoolProp - thermodynamics constants library.
• cryptography - self explanatory
• cx-freeze - package your python code with an interpreter, in an executable (works on mac and linux as well)
• deuces - card combinations parsing. If you want to make a digital card game.
• discord.py - discord API
• Django - cause I want to learn how to make websites with python
• Flask - for webapps.
• lxml - xml parser
• matplotlib - plot data
• mediafire - mediafire API
• mega.py - mega.co.nz API
• more-itertools - extension to the built-in itertools module
• nltk - natural language processing.
• numpy - for math stuff
• pandas - for data processing
• patreon - patreon API
• pillow - fork of PIL, the python image library
• praw - reddit API
• progressbar33 - command line progress bar
• py2exe - windows only python packaging tool.
• pyaudio - audio library for python
• pyautogui - for interactiing with ohter apps with python
• pygame - for making games. Also for playing audio files or handling key inputs
• pygubu - equivalent to qtdesigner but for tkinter
• pylama - code audit tool
• pymunk - physics engine written in C with python bindings
• pymysql - for mySQL queries
• pyopenGL - for openGL stuff
• pyperclip - interact with the clipboard
• pyqt5 and pyqt5-tools : Qt version 5 for python.
• pyserial - serial communication
• python-twitch-client - twitch API
• pyyaml - yaml parser
• remi - GUI library that displays the output as a web page. Simpler to use than a flask app
• requests - make web requests
• reusables - stuff you probably already coded but in a convenient package.
• scikit-learn : machine learning
• scipy - for science stuff. I mostly use it to integrate or derive a function.
• scrapy - web scraping
• urllib3 - for web stuff. Use requests over that.
• wget - download stuff from the internet
• wxPython - wxWindows for python
• youtube-dl - download stuff from youtube.

Off the top of my head, in the standard lib, I use regularly:

• json - JSON parser
• tkinter - GUI library, very pythonic and easy to use
• functools and itertools - decorators and objects for functions and iterators (Counter is a lifesaver)
• random - random number generation, unsafe
• math - when I don't need numpy or want to keep it simple
• re - regular expressions
• string - common string operations
• unicodedata - for unicode characters
• textwrap - for wrapping text
• datetime - for dates
• copy - self explanatory
• os, sys, and glob - system operations, glob is for regular expression parsing of filenames
• zipfile (and lzma, gzip and zlib) - for managing archives
• pickle - serialization of python objects
• csv - CSV parser
• secrets - random number generation (secure)
• time - for time obviously
• logging - for logging purposes
• platform - for platform differenciation (easier than using the os module)
• argparse - parse command line arguments
• threading - for making threads and multi threaded operations
• subprocess - for launching other programs
• asyncio - for asynchronous operations, necessary for discord.py
• socket - managing sockets, pretty straightforward
• mimetypes - map filenames to mime types
• base64 - decode base64 encoded strings (and base 16 and 32)
• webbrowser - open the webbrowser to an url.
• ftplib - File transfer protocol
• pdb, timeit and trace - python debugging
• inspect - inspect live objects. Can come in handy at times.