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Update: 2025.12.11
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- SQLAlchemy (🥇47 · ⭐ 11K · 📈) - The Database Toolkit for Python.
MIT - google-cloud-storage (🥇43 · ⭐ 5.2K · 📈) - Google Cloud Client Library for Python.
Apache-2 - python-dependency-injector (🥈36 · ⭐ 4.7K · 📈) - Dependency injection framework for Python.
BSD-3 - TaskTiger (🥉25 · ⭐ 1.5K · 📈) - Python task queue using Redis.
MIT - pickleDB (🥉25 · ⭐ 1.1K · 📈) - pickleDB is an in memory key-value store using Pythons orjson..
BSD-3
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- h5py (🥈40 · ⭐ 2.2K · 📉) - HDF5 for Python -- The h5py package is a Pythonic interface to the HDF5..
BSD-3 - kivy (🥇38 · ⭐ 19K · 📉) - Open source UI framework written in Python, running on Windows, Linux,..
MIT - dbt (🥈33 · ⭐ 12K · 📉) - dbt enables data analysts and engineers to transform their data..
❗Unlicensed - Motor (🥉31 · ⭐ 2.5K · 📉) - Motor - the async Python driver for MongoDB and Tornado or asyncio.
Apache-2 - catalogue (🥉21 · ⭐ 180 · 💀) - Super lightweight function registries for your library.
MIT
Update: 2025.12.04
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- rich (🥇46 · ⭐ 55K · 📈) - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the..
MIT - peewee (🥇42 · ⭐ 12K · 📈) - a small, expressive orm -- supports postgresql, mysql, sqlite and..
MIT - joblib (🥈41 · ⭐ 4.3K · 📈) - Computing with Python functions.
BSD-3 - s3transfer (🥈37 · ⭐ 230 · 📈) - Amazon S3 Transfer Manager for Python.
Apache-2 - rows (🥉24 · ⭐ 890 · 📈) - A common, beautiful interface to tabular data, no matter the format.
❗️LGPL-3.0
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- elasticsearch (🥇42 · ⭐ 4.4K · 📉) - Official Python client for Elasticsearch.
Apache-2 - Pygments (🥇40 · ⭐ 2.1K · 📉) - Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter written in Python.
BSD-2 - PyYAML (🥉38 · ⭐ 2.8K · 📉) - Canonical source repository for PyYAML.
MIT - netmiko (🥉37 · ⭐ 4K · 📉) - Multi-vendor library to simplify Paramiko SSH connections to network..
MIT - MongoEngine (🥈36 · ⭐ 4.4K · 📉) - A Python Object-Document-Mapper for working with MongoDB.
MIT
Update: 2025.11.27
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- flatbuffers (🥇45 · ⭐ 25K · 📈) - FlatBuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library.
Apache-2 - elasticsearch (🥇43 · ⭐ 4.4K · 📈) - Official Python client for Elasticsearch.
Apache-2 - docker (🥈42 · ⭐ 7.1K · 📈) - A Python library for the Docker Engine API.
Apache-2 - rq (🥈41 · ⭐ 10K · 📈) - Simple job queues for Python.
BSD-3 - greenlet (🥈41 · ⭐ 1.8K · 📈) - Lightweight in-process concurrent programming.
MIT
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- google-cloud-storage (🥇42 · ⭐ 5.2K · 📉) - Google Cloud Client Library for Python.
Apache-2 - python-prompt-toolkit (🥈39 · ⭐ 10K · 📉) - Library for building powerful interactive command..
BSD-3 - alembic (🥈39 · ⭐ 3.8K · 📉) - A database migrations tool for SQLAlchemy.
MIT - SQLAlchemy (🥉34 · ⭐ 11K · 📉) - The Database Toolkit for Python.
MIT - CocoIndex (🥉28 · ⭐ 3.4K · 📉) - Data transformation framework for AI. Ultra performant, with..
Apache-2
Update: 2025.11.20
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- protobuf (🥇53 · ⭐ 70K · 📈) - Protocol Buffers - Googles data interchange format.
BSD-3 - google-cloud-storage (🥇43 · ⭐ 5.1K · 📈) - Google Cloud Client Library for Python.
Apache-2 - kafka-python (🥈40 · ⭐ 5.9K · 📈) - Python client for Apache Kafka.
Apache-2 - srsly (🥉30 · ⭐ 480 · 📈) - Modern high-performance serialization utilities for Python (JSON,..
MIT - borb (🥉23 · ⭐ 3.5K · 📈) - borb is a library for reading, creating and manipulating PDF..
❗Unlicensed
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- cookiecutter (🥈39 · ⭐ 24K · 📉) - A cross-platform command-line utility that creates projects..
BSD-3 - diagrams (🥈36 · ⭐ 42K · 📉) - Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures.
MIT - pycryptodomex (🥉36 · ⭐ 3.1K · 📉) - A self-contained cryptographic library for Python.
BSD-3 - Vaex (🥉32 · ⭐ 8.4K · 📉) - Out-of-Core hybrid Apache Arrow/NumPy DataFrame for Python, ML,..
MIT - zipp (🥉32 · ⭐ 67 · 📉) - Backport of pathlib-compatible object wrapper for zip files.
❗Unlicensed
Update: 2025.11.13
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- SQLAlchemy (🥇47 · ⭐ 11K · 📈) - The Database Toolkit for Python.
MIT - Faker (🥇44 · ⭐ 19K · 📈) - Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you.
MIT - zenml (🥈36 · ⭐ 5K · 📈) - ZenML : One AI Platform from Pipelines to Agents. https://zenml.io.
Apache-2 - cerberus (🥈36 · ⭐ 3.2K · 📈) - Lightweight, extensible data validation library for Python.
ISC - python-slugify (🥈34 · ⭐ 1.6K · 📈) - Returns unicode slugs.
MIT
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- protobuf (🥇52 · ⭐ 70K · 📉) - Protocol Buffers - Googles data interchange format.
BSD-3 - rich (🥇45 · ⭐ 54K · 📉) - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the..
MIT - google-cloud-storage (🥇42 · ⭐ 5.1K · 📉) - Google Cloud Client Library for Python.
Apache-2 - orjson (🥈37 · ⭐ 7.6K · 📉) - Fast, correct Python JSON library supporting dataclasses,..
Apache-2 - img2dataset (🥉28 · ⭐ 4.2K · 📉) - Easily turn large sets of image urls to an image dataset. Can..
MIT
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Update: 2025.11.06
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- pydantic (🥇47 · ⭐ 26K · 📈) - Data validation using Python type hints.
MIT - google-cloud-storage (🥇43 · ⭐ 5.1K · 📈) - Google Cloud Client Library for Python.
Apache-2 - plumbum (🥉36 · ⭐ 3K · 📈) - Plumbum: Shell Combinators.
MIT - cloudpickle (🥉34 · ⭐ 1.8K · 📈) - Extended pickling support for Python objects.
BSD-3 - datasketch (🥈33 · ⭐ 2.8K · 📈) - MinHash, LSH, LSH Forest, Weighted MinHash, HyperLogLog,..
MIT
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- paramiko (🥈41 · ⭐ 9.6K · 📉) - The leading native Python SSHv2 protocol library.
❗️LGPL-2.1 - Pygments (🥇41 · ⭐ 2.1K · 📉) - Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter written in Python.
BSD-2 - greenlet (🥈40 · ⭐ 1.8K · 📉) - Lightweight in-process concurrent programming.
MIT - SQLAlchemy (🥉34 · ⭐ 11K · 📉) - The Database Toolkit for Python.
MIT - ConfigArgParse (🥉29 · ⭐ 750 · 📉) - Drop-in replacement for argparse with added support for..
MIT
Update: 2025.10.30
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- Dagster (🥇43 · ⭐ 14K · 📈) - An orchestration platform for the development, production, and..
Apache-2 - python-dotenv (🥇42 · ⭐ 8.5K · 📈) - Reads key-value pairs from a .env file and can set them as..
BSD-3 - more-itertools (🥇41 · ⭐ 4K · 📈) - More routines for operating on iterables, beyond itertools.
MIT - orjson (🥈38 · ⭐ 7.5K · 📈) - Fast, correct Python JSON library supporting dataclasses,..
Apache-2 - diagrams (🥈37 · ⭐ 42K · 📈) - Diagram as Code for prototyping cloud system architectures.
MIT
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- Faker (🥇43 · ⭐ 19K · 📉) - Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you.
MIT - attrs (🥇42 · ⭐ 5.6K · 📉) - Python Classes Without Boilerplate.
MIT - wrapt (🥇41 · ⭐ 2.2K · 📉) - A Python module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching.
BSD-2 - jsonpickle (🥈35 · ⭐ 1.3K · 📉) - Python library for serializing any arbitrary object graph into..
BSD-3 - traitlets (🥈35 · ⭐ 650 · 📉) - A lightweight Traits like module.
BSD-3
Update: 2025.10.23
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- azure-storage-blob (🥇44 · ⭐ 5.4K · 📈) - This repository is for active development of the Azure..
MIT - arrow (🥇41 · ⭐ 8.9K · 📈) - Better dates & times for Python.
Apache-2 - argcomplete (🥈35 · ⭐ 1.5K · 📈) - Python and tab completion, better together.
Apache-2 - huey (🥈31 · ⭐ 5.7K · 📈) - a little task queue for python.
MIT - PugSQL (🥉24 · ⭐ 750 · 📈) - A HugSQL-inspired database library for Python.
Apache-2
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- Dagster (🥇42 · ⭐ 14K · 📉) - An orchestration platform for the development, production, and..
Apache-2 - Pygments (🥇42 · ⭐ 2.1K · 📉) - Pygments is a generic syntax highlighter written in Python.
BSD-2 - python-fire (🥈38 · ⭐ 28K · 📉) - Python Fire is a library for automatically generating..
Apache-2 - Kedro (🥈37 · ⭐ 11K · 📉) - Kedro is a toolbox for production-ready data science. It uses..
Apache-2 - orjson (🥈37 · ⭐ 7.5K · 📉) - Fast, correct Python JSON library supporting dataclasses,..
Apache-2
Update: 2025.10.16
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- Celery (🥇47 · ⭐ 27K · 📈) - Asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.
BSD-3 - rich (🥇46 · ⭐ 54K · 📈) - Rich is a Python library for rich text and beautiful formatting in the..
MIT - psycopg2 (🥇40 · ⭐ 3.6K · 📈) - PostgreSQL database adapter for the Python..
❗️BSD-3-Clause-Attribution - Tablib (🥈37 · ⭐ 4.7K · 📈) - Python Module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML, &c.
MIT - cachetools (🥇36 · ⭐ 2.6K · 📈) - Extensible memoizing collections and decorators.
MIT
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- protobuf (🥇52 · ⭐ 69K · 📉) - Protocol Buffers - Googles data interchange format.
BSD-3 - google-cloud-storage (🥇42 · ⭐ 5.1K · 📉) - Google Cloud Client Library for Python.
Apache-2 - azure-storage-blob (🥇40 · ⭐ 5.4K · 📉) - This repository is for active development of the Azure..
MIT - more-itertools (🥇40 · ⭐ 4K · 📉) - More routines for operating on iterables, beyond itertools.
MIT - everett (🥉23 · ⭐ 150 · 📉) - configuration library for python projects.
MPL-2.0
Update: 2025.10.09
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Projects that have a higher project-quality score compared to the last update. There might be a variety of reasons, such as increased downloads or code activity.
- SQLAlchemy (🥇46 · ⭐ 11K · 📈) - The Database Toolkit for Python.
MIT - cached-property (🥈29 · ⭐ 710 · 💤) - A decorator for caching properties in classes.
BSD-3 - Eel (🥉28 · ⭐ 6.7K · 📈) - A little Python library for making simple Electron-like HTML/JS GUI apps.
MIT - pathlib2 (🥉28 · ⭐ 84 · 💀) - Backport of pathlib aiming to support the full stdlib Python API.
MIT - powerline-shell (🥉27 · ⭐ 6.3K · 💀) - A beautiful and useful prompt for your shell.
MIT
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- Celery (🥇46 · ⭐ 27K · 📉) - Asynchronous task queue/job queue based on distributed message passing.
BSD-3 - polars (🥇44 · ⭐ 36K · 📉) - Extremely fast Query Engine for DataFrames, written in Rust.
❗Unlicensed - flatbuffers (🥇44 · ⭐ 25K · 📉) - FlatBuffers: Memory Efficient Serialization Library.
Apache-2 - colorama (🥈36 · ⭐ 3.7K · 📉) - Simple cross-platform colored terminal text in Python.
BSD-3 - Tablib (🥈34 · ⭐ 4.7K · 📉) - Python Module for Tabular Datasets in XLS, CSV, JSON, YAML, &c.
MIT