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Posted on March 3, 2020
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 |
Posted on March 3, 2020
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