Python Libraries: A Categorized List & Example


Category

Library Name

Description

Data Science & Machine Learning

NumPy

Numerical computing, array operations


Pandas

Data manipulation and analysis, dataframes


Scikit-learn

Machine learning algorithms (classification, regression, clustering, etc.)


Matplotlib

Data visualization, plotting graphs


Seaborn

Statistical data visualization


TensorFlow

Deep learning framework


PyTorch

Deep learning framework


Keras

High-level neural networks API

Web Development

Django

High-level web framework


Flask

Lightweight web framework


Requests

Making HTTP requests


Beautiful Soup

HTML and XML parsing


FastAPI

Modern, fast (high-performance), web framework for building APIs

Data Analysis & Visualization

SciPy

Scientific computing, optimization, integration, interpolation


Plotly

Interactive data visualization


Bokeh

Interactive web plotting

GUI Development

Tkinter

Standard Python GUI library


PyQt

Cross-platform GUI toolkit


Kivy

Cross-platform GUI framework (touch-enabled)

Networking & Communication

Socket

Low-level networking interface


Twisted

Event-driven networking engine


Paramiko

SSH2 protocol library

Database Interaction

SQLAlchemy

SQL toolkit and Object-Relational Mapper (ORM)


psycopg2

PostgreSQL adapter


pymysql

MySQL connector

Testing

pytest

Testing framework


unittest

Python's built-in testing framework

Image Processing

Pillow (PIL)

Image manipulation and processing


OpenCV

Computer vision library

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

NLTK

Natural language toolkit


SpaCy

Industrial-strength NLP library


Gensim

Topic modeling and document similarity

Automation & System Administration

os

Operating system interface


shutil

High-level file operations


subprocess

Running external commands


psutil

System monitoring (CPU, memory, processes)

Game Development

Pygame

Game development library

Data Scraping

Scrapy

Web scraping framework

Date & Time

datetime

Working with dates and times

Mathematics

math

Mathematical functions

Audio Processing

Librosa

Audio and music analysis



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