one-python

We don't need a lot of libraries. We just need the best ones.

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Libraries

General Machine Learning

• scikit-learn - Simple and efficient tools for data mining and data analysis.

Machine Learning > Deep Learning

• TensorFlow - Low-level (configurations over conventions) library for building deep learning data flow graphs.

Machine Learning > Deep Learning + Computer Vision

• caffe - Deep learning framework made with expression, speed, and modularity in mind.

Optical Character Recognition (OCR)

• pytesseract - A wrapper for Google Tesseract OCR.

Chinese Word Segmentation

• jieba - Chinese Words Segmentation Utilities.

Concurrency and Networking

• gevent - A coroutine-based Python networking library that uses greenlet.

HTTP Request

• requests - Python HTTP requests for humans.

Web Crawling

• Scrapy - A fast high-level screen scraping and web crawling framework.

Web Content Extracting

• newspaper - News extraction, article extraction and content curation in Python.

Scientific Computing

• scipy - An open-source software for mathematics, science, and engineering. statistics, optimization, integration, linear algebra, Fourier transforms, signal and image processing, ODE solvers, and more.

Natural Language

• nltk - A suite of libraries and programs for symbolic and statistical natural language processing.

Markdown

• mistune - The fastest markdown parser in pure Python with renderer features, inspired by marked.

Data Analysis

• pandas - A software library for data manipulation and analysis. In particular, it offers data structures and operations for manipulating numerical tables and time series.

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Frameworks

• Django - The most popular full featured web framework in Python.
  • djangopackages - Excellent 3rd party django package collections.

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Utilities

Interactive Interpreter

• IPython - A rich toolkit to help you make the most out of using Python interactively.

Environment

• virtualenv - A tool to create isolated Python environments.
  • virtualenvwrapper - A set of extensions to virtual environment.

IDE

• PyCharm - Commercial Python IDE based on the IntelliJ platform by JetBrains. Free community edition available.