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 |
Top comments (1)
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,requestsorresponses, amongst others.