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List of Python software

The Python programming language is actively used by many people, both in industry and academia, for a wide variety of purposes.

Integrated Development Environments (IDEs) for Python

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See also: Comparison of Python IDEs

Unit testing frameworks

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Further information: List of unit testing frameworks § Python

Python package managers and Python distributions

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Applications

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Productivity

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Multimedia

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Gaming

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File hosting

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Network tools

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  • Celery – an asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.
  • Conch – implementation of the Secure Shell (SSH) protocol with Twisted.
  • Shinken – a computer system and network monitoring software application compatible with Nagios.
  • Wicd – a network manager for Linux.
  • Xpra – a tool which runs X clients, usually on a remote host, and directs their display to the local machine without losing any state.

Package managers

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Software management

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  • A-A-P – a tool used to download, build and install software via Makefile-like "recipes".
  • Anaconda (installer) – an open-source system installer for Linux distributions primarily used in Fedora Linux, CentOS, and Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
  • Ansible – a configuration management engine for computers by combining multi-node software deployment and ad hoc task execution.
  • BitBake – a make-like build tool with the special focus of distributions and packages for embedded Linux cross compilation.
  • Buildbot – a continuous integration system.
  • Buildout – a software build tool, primarily used to download and set up development or deployment software dependencies.
  • GYP (Generate Your Projects) – a build automation tool (similar to CMake and Premake) to generate native IDE project files (e.g., Visual Studio, Xcode, etc.) from one configuration.
  • Mercurial – a cross-platform, distributed source management tool.
  • Pungi – an open-source distribution compose tool to organize creating YUM and system image repositories.
  • Salt – a configuration management and remote execution engine.
  • SCons – a tool for building software.
  • Waf – a build automation tool to assist automatic compiling and installing of computer software.

Other

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Web applications

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Video games

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Web frameworks

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See also: Comparison of server-side web frameworks
  • BlueBream – a rewrite by the Zope developers of the Zope 2 web application server.
  • CherryPy – an object-oriented web application server and framework.
  • CubicWeb – a web framework that targets large-scale semantic web and linked open data applications and international corporations.
  • Django – an MVT (model, view, template) web framework.
  • Flask – a modern, lightweight, well-documented micro-framework based on Werkzeug and Jinja 2.
  • Google App Engine – a platform for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers, including Python.
  • Grok – a web framework based on Zope Toolkit technology.
  • Nevow – a web application framework originally developed by the company Divmod.
  • Pylons – a lightweight web framework emphasizing flexibility and rapid development.
  • Pyramid – a minimalistic web framework inspired by Zope, Pylons and Django.
  • Python Paste – a set of utilities for web development that has been described as "a framework for web frameworks".
  • Quixote – a framework for developing Web applications in Python.
  • RapidSMS – a web framework which extends the logic and capabilities of Django to communicate with SMS messages.
  • Spyce – a technology to embed Python code into webpages.
  • Tornado – a lightweight non-blocking server and framework.
  • TurboGears – a web framework combining SQLObject/SQLAlchemy, Kid/Genshi, and CherryPy/Pylons.
  • web2py – a full-stack enterprise web application framework, following the MVC design.
  • Zope 2 – an application server, commonly used to build content management systems.

Graphics frameworks

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UI frameworks

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  • appJar – cross-platform, open-source GUI library for Python. Provides easy wrapper functions around most of Tkinter with extra functionality built in.
  • Kivy – open-source Python library for developing multitouch application software with a natural user interface (NUI).
  • PyGTK – a popular cross-platform GUI library based on GTK+; furthermore, other GNOME libraries also have bindings for Python.
  • PyQt – another cross-platform GUI library based on Qt; as above, KDE libraries also have bindings.
  • PySide – an alternative to the PyQt library, released under the BSD-style licence.
  • Tkinter – is Python's de facto GUI it is shipped in most versions of Python and is integrated in the IDLE. It is based Tcl command tool.
  • wxPython – a port of wxWidgets and a cross-platform GUI library for Python.
  • Flet – is a framework that allows building web, desktop and mobile applications in Python based on Flutter by Google

Scientific packages

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Machine learning and deep learning

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See also: Comparison of machine learning software and Comparison of deep learning software

LLM inference and serving

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Mathematical libraries

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  • CuPy – a library for GPU-accelerated computing.
  • Dask – a library for parallel computing.
  • Manim – open-source Python mathematical animation and visualisation library from 3Blue1Brown.
  • Matplotlib – providing MATLAB-like plotting and mathematical functions (using NumPy).
  • NetworkX – library for studying graphs and networks
  • NumPy – a language extension that adds support for large and fast, multi-dimensional arrays and matrices.
  • Plotly – is a scientific plotting library for creating browser-based graphs.
  • SageMath – is a large mathematical software application which integrates the work of nearly 100 free software projects.
  • SymPy – a symbolic mathematical calculations package.
  • PyMC – python module containing Bayesian statistical models and fitting algorithms, including Markov chain Monte Carlo.

Additional development packages

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  • Beautiful Soup – package for parsing HTML and XML documents.
  • Cheetah – Python-powered template engine and code-generation tool.
  • Construct – python library for the declarative construction and deconstruction of data structures.
  • Genshi – template engine for XML-based vocabularies.
  • IPython – development shell both written in and designed for Python.
  • Jinja – Python-powered template engine, inspired by Django's template engine.
  • Kid – simple template engine for XML-based vocabularies.
  • Meson build system – software tool for automating the building (compiling) of software.
  • mod_wsgi – module that provides a WSGI compliant interface for hosting Python based web applications with the Apache web server.
  • PyObjC – Python to Objective-C bridge that allows writing OS X software in Python.
  • Robot Framework – generic test automation framework for acceptance testing and acceptance test-driven development (ATDD).
  • Sphinx – which converts reStructuredText files into HTML websites and other formats including PDF, EPub and Man pages.
  • SQLAlchemy – database backend and ORM.
  • SQLObject – an ORM for providing an object interface to a database.
  • Storm – an ORM from Canonical.
  • Twisted – a networking framework for Python.
  • VPython – the Python programming language plus a 3D graphics module called Visual.

Embedded as a scripting language

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Python is, or can be used as the scripting language in these notable software products:

Commercial uses

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  • CCP Games uses Stackless Python in both its server-side and client-side applications for its MMO Eve Online.[23]
  • Instagram's backend is written in Python.[24]
  • NASA is using Python to implement a CAD/CAE/PDM repository and model management, integration, and transformation system which will be the core infrastructure for its next-generation collaborative engineering environment.[25][non-primary source needed] It is also the development language for OpenMDAO, a framework developed by NASA for solving multidisciplinary design optimization problems.
  • "Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. Today dozens of Google engineers use Python."[26]
  • Reddit was originally written in Common Lisp, but was rewritten in Python in 2005.[27]
  • Yahoo! Groups was originally implemented in Python.[28]
  • YouTube uses Python "to produce maintainable features in record times, with a minimum of developers".[29]
  • Enthought uses Python as the main language for many custom applications in Geophysics, Financial applications, Astrophysics, simulations for consumer product companies.

Python implementations

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See also: Python (programming language) § Implementations, and Source-to-source compiler § Programming language implementations

Implementations of Python include:[30]

Historic Python implementations include:

  • Parrot – Virtual machine being developed mainly as the runtime for Raku, and intended to support dynamic languages like Python, Ruby, Tcl, etc.
  • Psyco – specialized JIT compiler project that has mostly been eclipsed by PyPy.
  • Pyrex – Python-like Python module development project that has mostly been eclipsed by Cython.
  • Python for S60 – CPython port to the S60 platform.
  • Stackless Python – CPython with coroutines.
  • Unladen Swallow – performance-orientated implementation based on CPython which natively executed its bytecode via an LLVM-based JIT compiler. Funded by Google, stopped circa 2011.

See also

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References

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History of Python

The programming language Python was conceived in the late 1980s, and its implementation was started in December 1989 by Guido van Rossum at CWI in the Netherlands as a successor to ABC capable of exception handling and interfacing with the Amoeba operating system. Van Rossum was Python's principal author and had a central role in deciding the direction of Python (as reflected in the title given to him by the Python community, Benevolent Dictator for Life (BDFL)) until stepping down as leader on July 12, 2018. Python was named after the BBC TV show Monty Python's Flying Circus. Python 2.0 was released on October 16, 2000, with many major new features, such as list comprehensions, cycle-detecting garbage collector, reference counting, memory management and support for Unicode, along with a change to the development process itself, with a shift to a more transparent and community-backed process. Python 3.0, a major, backwards-incompatible release, was released on December 3, 2008 after a long period of testing. Many of its major features were also backported to the backwards-compatible Python versions 2.6 and 2.7 until support for Python 2 finally ceased at the beginning of 2020. Releases of Python 3 up through 3.12 include the 2to3 utility, which automates the translation of Python 2 code to Python 3. As of October 2026, Python 3.15 is the latest stable release. This version currently receives full bug-fix and security updates, while Python 3.14—released in October 2025—will continue to receive bug-fixes until October 2027, and after that will only receive security fixes until its end-of-life in 2030. Python 3.11 is the oldest supported branch of Python (albeit in the 'security support' phase).

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List of Monty Python projects

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Outline of the Python programming language

The following outline is provided as an overview of and topical guide to Python: Python is a general-purpose, interpreted, object-oriented, functional, multi-paradigm, and dynamically typed programming language known for its emphasis on code readability and broad standard library. Python was created by Guido van Rossum and first released in 1991. It emphasizes code readability and developer productivity.

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