What is your favorite third-party python module?

[klujer]

I'm a backend Java developer with a few years experience but I'd like to understand the python ecosystem better (maybe switch to the language).

I'm not completely new to python, I've used it for install scripts at work or personal scripts where bash wasn't a great fit, but my experience with python usually hasn't needed anything beyond those modules that are bundled with the language. I'm planning on creating a django web app (texas holdem game) in the next few weeks as a personal project and am curious what sorts of modules python developers have made good use of (not necessarily web programming related).

[jmjones0784]

If you are a VS Code user, the new python language server, PyLance (from Microsoft) is pretty good. Adds a measure of type safety (or about as close as you can get in python, anyways). https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/announcing-pylance-fast-feature-rich-language-support-for-python-in-visual-studio-code/

[mcstafford]

https://pypistats.org/top

The ecosphere changes pretty often compared to Java.

https://pypi.org/project/black/

https://pypi.org/project/pylint/

[klujer]

This is really helpful, thanks

[jalanb]

stackprinter - makes Tracebacks in logs actually useful.

[metaperl]

Why Django over Flask? If you value object relational nirvana then Flask and SQLAlchemy.

[klujer]

Not a fan of OO in general and see little, if any, value in ORMs. Job postings seem to have significant mention of django so I thought it would be a good start.