Python: 50 modules for all needs

A great game module is pyglet (http://www.pyglet.org).

Instead of Soya (which gives a 404), you should probably list PySoy (http://www.pysoy.org/).

Good list.
sqlalchemy is pretty good.
http://www.sqlalchemy.org/

Missing a compiler backend

http://mdevan.nfshost.com/llvm-py/

Also, for network applications, there’s Twisted. http://twistedmatrix.com/

Looks like you missed pymsn for MSN stuff, looks like it supports newer MSN protocols

Vpython (http://vpython.org/) has a very nice “visual” module for simple 3D programming in Python.

Jeepers, haven’t you pythonistas gotten round to doing something like CPAN? Doesn’t all this grubbing for one module here, another module there hearken back to, I dunno, the days of FORTRAN?

“Jeepers, haven’t you pythonistas gotten round to doing something like CPAN? Doesn’t all this grubbing for one module here, another module there hearken back to, I dunno, the days of FORTRAN?”

I haven’t checked, but I suspect that the vast majority of these modules are on.
http://pypi.python.org/pypi

construct – parser/generator for protocols, declarative style. Used it for a number of protocols, much more fun then writing parsers by hand: http://construct.wikispaces.com/
also ipython – not technically a library, but can be used as one (embed a shell in an app for debugging purposes).

Thats looking like an ultimate list of useful modules and i am looking into the games some of them i never heard about. thanks for compiling some huge useful list JBJ.

For “games,” I’d suggest Panda3D, which is more than a single module, but also does a lot more than the other modules listed. (Pirates of the Caribbean is written in Panda3D)

Nice list, thanks. I think it’d be useful to include mpi4py too.
http://code.google.com/p/mpi4py/

Neat list. Not every module might be to everyone’s taste (3 for MSN messenger interoperability? Really?) but it’s a good idea to show off some top modules. I’d add M2Crypto, which is an OpenSSL wrapper and a great all-round encryption library.

And yes, most (nearly all) important Python packages live on PyPi and can be installed with pip (or easy_install, part of setuptools). Python actually has pretty good package management, once you look into the capabilities of pip and virtualenv (cleanroom package deployment.)

I’d say add them to the list too, but they’re more utilities than modules.