Python: 50 modules for all needs

Python: 50 modules for all needs

Posted by Jean-Baptiste Jung on Jun 11, 2008 | 38 comments

One thing I really love with the Python programming language is its incredible extensibility. Here’s a list of 50 awesome modules for Python, covering almost all needs: Databases, GUIs, Images, Sound, OS interaction, Web, and more.

Author : Jean-Baptiste Jung

Jean is a 27 years old self-taught web developer and WordPress specialist who lives in Wallonia, the French speaking part of Belgium. In addition to Cats Who Code, he also blogs about WordPress at WpRecipes and about Photoshop at PsdVibe.

Graphical interface wxPython http://wxpython.org
Graphical interface pyGtk http://www.pygtk.org
Graphical interface pyQT http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/pyqt/
Graphical interface Pmw http://pmw.sourceforge.net/
Graphical interface Tkinter 3000 http://effbot.org/zone/wck.htm
Graphical interface Tix http://tix.sourceforge.net/
Database MySQLdb http://sourceforge.net/projects/mysql-python
Database PyGreSQL http://www.pygresql.org/
Database Gadfly http://gadfly.sourceforge.net/
Database SQLAlchemy http://www.sqlalchemy.org/
Database psycopg http://www.initd.org/pub/software/psycopg/
Database kinterbasdb http://kinterbasdb.sourceforge.net/
Database cx_Oracle http://www.cxtools.net/default.aspx?nav=downloads
Database pySQLite http://initd.org/tracker/pysqlite
MSN Messenger msnlib http://auriga.wearlab.de/~alb/msnlib/
MSN Messenger pymsn http://telepathy.freedesktop.org/wiki/Pymsn
MSN Messenger msnp http://msnp.sourceforge.net/
Network Twisted http://twistedmatrix.com/
Images PIL http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/
Images gdmodule http://newcenturycomputers.net/projects/gdmodule.html
Images VideoCapture http://videocapture.sourceforge.net/
Sciences and Maths scipy http://www.scipy.org/
Sciences and Maths NumPy http://numpy.scipy.org//
Sciences and Maths numarray http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware/numarray
Sciences and Maths matplotlib http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/
Games Pygame http://www.pygame.org/news.html
Games Pyglet http://www.pyglet.org/
Games PySoy http://www.pysoy.org/
Games pyOpenGL http://pyopengl.sourceforge.net/
Jabber jabberpy http://jabberpy.sourceforge.net/
Web scrape http://zesty.ca/python/scrape.html
Web Beautiful Soup http://crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup
Web pythonweb http://www.pythonweb.org/
Web mechanize http://wwwsearch.sourceforge.net/mechanize/
Localisation geoname.py http://www.zindep.com/blog-zindep/Geoname-python/
Serial port pySerial http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/
Serial port USPP http://ibarona.googlepages.com/uspp
Parallel Port pyParallel http://pyserial.sourceforge.net/pyparallel.html
USB Port pyUSB http://bleyer.org/pyusb/
Windows ctypes http://starship.python.net/crew/theller/ctypes/
Windows pywin32 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pywin32/
Windows pywinauto http://www.openqa.org/pywinauto/
Windows pyrtf http://pyrtf.sourceforge.net/
Windows wmi http://timgolden.me.uk/python/wmi.html
PDA/GSM/Mobiles pymo http://www.awaretek.com/pymo.html
PDA/GSM/Mobiles pyS60 http://sourceforge.net/projects/pys60
Sound pySoundic http://pysonic.sourceforge.net/
Sound pyMedia http://pymedia.org/
Sound FMOD http://www.fmod.org/
Sound pyMIDI http://www.cs.unc.edu/Research/assist/developer.shtml
GMail libgmail http://libgmail.sourceforge.net/
Google pyGoogle http://pygoogle.sourceforge.net/
Expect pyExpect http://pexpect.sourceforge.net/
WordNet pyWordNet http://osteele.com/projects/pywordnet/
Command line cmd http://blog.doughellmann.com/2008/05/pymotw-cmd.html
Compiler backend llvm-py http://mdevan.nfshost.com/llvm-py/
3D VPython http://vpython.org

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