Popular python packages

In this post I'll talk about some popular Python packages. These packages are used for a variety of purposes. You can install modules (packages) with the Python package manager pip.

Desktop software

For making a desktop applications (GUI graphical interface), you can use one of these packages. You can make any desktop software you want, including all the widgets (buttons, listbox, textbox etc)

Module	Description
PyQt	Make modern desktop software (QT development libraries for Python), (hello world tutorial)
wxpython	GUI programming framework in Python, with architecture similar to MFC
tkinter	Default module for building desktop software, tkinter tutorial

Web apps

To make a web app, you can use a web framework. Python is great for web development. You can easily deploy Python to the web.

Module	Description
Django	Open source web development framework that encourages rapid development and follows the MVC design
Flask	A simple Web framework, simple but powerful. (course)

Scientific computing

For scientific computing, there are all kinds of modules. If you want to do scientific computing, these are good:

Module	Description
Matplotlib	Use of third-party libraries like matlab implemented in Python, to draw some high-quality two-dimensional graphics mathematics
SciPy	Python-based matlab implementation, aimed at achieving all the features of matlab
NumPy	Python-based scientific computing third-party libraries, provides a matrix, linear algebra, Fourier transforms, etc. Solutions

Web scraping and others

For webpage scraping or data mining (web), there are some modules available. These modules let you grab a webpage and work with the data on that page.

Module	Description
BeautifulSoup	robust fault tolerance. Pages dealing with very powerful package
PyQuery	like jQuery, document processing

Other packages that are useful

Module	Description
MySQLdb	To connect MySQL database, example
PIL	Python-based image processing library, powerful, graphic file format support for a wide range of images
PyGame	Python-based multimedia and game development software development module
Sh Systems Management	sh lets you perform the same function execute shell commands like terminal
Pickle (cPickle)	export and import Python objects
Json	work with json data in python
Random	generate random number
Datetime	get date, hour, minute

 

Comments

[Kyle Jones]

A really popular and useful Python package for web scraping is scrapy. Feel like this should definitely have been included in that section of this list.
Similarly, there is no mention of pandas, requests or responses, amongst others.