Awasome python libreies

essential_python_libraries.md

Essential Python Libraries

Command-Line Interface (CLI)

• click – Elegant CLI toolkit
• fire – Auto-generate CLIs from Python objects
• argparse – Built-in argument parsing (standard library)
• typer – Modern CLI with type hints (built on click)

Terminal User Interface (TUI) & Rich Text

• rich – Beautiful terminal formatting & logging
• textual – Interactive TUI framework (like GUI but in terminal)
• prompt-toolkit – Advanced CLI input & interactive prompts
• blessed – Terminal styling & keyboard input

Graphical User Interface (GUI)

• streamlit – Fast web-based data apps
• tkinter – Built-in GUI toolkit (standard library)
• PyQt / PySide – Qt-based GUI frameworks
• Dear PyGui – Lightweight GPU-accelerated GUI
• Kivy – Cross-platform GUI for touch/mobile

Web Development

• Frameworks:
  • FastAPI – Modern async API framework
  • Flask – Lightweight WSGI web framework
  • Django – Full-featured web framework (batteries included)
  • Sanic – Async web server & framework
• Templating:
  • Jinja2 – HTML/XML templating engine
• ASGI/WSGI Servers:
  • uvicorn – ASGI server (FastAPI default)
  • gunicorn – WSGI server (for Flask/Django)
  • Waitress – Production WSGI server

Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning

• torch / PyTorch – Deep learning framework
• tensorflow – Google’s ML framework
• transformers (Hugging Face) – NLP models
• langchain – LLM application framework
• ollama – Local LLM runner
• scikit-learn – Classic ML algorithms
• numpy / pandas – Numerical & data processing

Development Tools & Code Quality

• Formatting & Linting:
  • black – Uncompromising code formatter
  • ruff – Extremely fast linter (replaces flake8, pylint)
  • flake8 – PEP 8 style checker
  • pylint – Static code analysis
  • mypy – Static type checking
  • isort -
• Testing:
  • pytest – Powerful testing framework
  • hypothesis – Property-based testing
• Git Hooks:
  • pre-commit – Manage Git hooks (pre-commit-config)
• Security:
  • bandit – Security linter
  • safety – Dependency vulnerability scanner

Server & Deployment

• nginx – High-performance web server (reverse proxy)
• uvicorn – ASGI server (FastAPI)
• gunicorn – WSGI server (Flask/Django)
• Waitress – Production-ready WSGI server

Utility & Performance

• tqdm – Progress bars
• loguru – Simplified logging
• requests – HTTP client
• aiohttp – Async HTTP client/server
• uv (Ultra-Velocity) – Faster alternative to pip