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The Ten (10) Best Python Productivity Tools, Plugins and

Libraries

Every engineer worth his/her salt should have a set of awesome tools to help increase productivity. Livecoding.tv
engineers are no exception. We would like to share one such set of tools, plugins, and libraries that Python
streamers use on Livecoding.tv on a daily basis.
What is Python?
Python is a programming language that is freely available and that makes solving a computer problem almost
as easy as writing out ones thoughts about the solution. It can be written once and run on almost any computer
without needing to change the program, (Python website). Python is the kind of language that adheres to new
thinking in the programming world. It is thought to be easier than most to use and uses block structure and object
orientation.
Here are the ten (10) best Python productivity tools, plugins, and libraries recommended by Livecoding.tv
engineers:

Beautiful Soup

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Beautiful Soup is a Python library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files. It is designed for quick turnaround
projects like screen-scraping, and works with your favorite parser to provide idiomatic ways of navigating,
searching, and modifying the parse tree. It commonly saves Livecoding.tv engineers hours or days of work.

Pillow

Pillow is the friendly Python Image Library (PIL) fork, and comes highly recommended by Livecoding.tv
engineers.

Gooey

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Gooey converts your Console Applications into end-user-friendly GUI applications. It lets you focus on building
robust, configurable programs in a familiar way, all without having to worry about how it will be presented to and
interacted with by your average user.

Peewee

Peewee is a simple and small ORM. It has few (but expressive) concepts, making it easy to learn and intuitive to
use.

Scrapy

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Scrapy is an open source and collaborative framework for extracting the data you need from websites in a fast
and simple, yet extensible way.

Apache Libcloud

Apache Libcloud is a Python library for interacting with many of the popular cloud service providers using a
unified API. It was created to make it easy for developers to build products that work between any of the services
that it supports.

Pygame

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Pygame is a set of Python modules designed for writing games. Pygame adds functionality on top of the
excellent SDL library. This allows you to create fully featured games and multimedia programs in the python
language. Pygame is highly portable and runs on nearly every platform and operating system.

Pathlib

Pathlib is a path manipulation library for .Net. The goal of PathLib is to extend the feature set of System.IO.Path
and bundle it all into a strongly typed path object.

NumPy

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NumPy is the fundamental package needed for scientific computing with Python. It is derived from the old
Numeric code base and can be used as a replacement for Numeric. It also adds the features introduced by
numarray and can be used to replace numarray.

Sh

Sh (previously pbs) is a full-fledged subprocess interface for Python that allows you to call any program as if it
were a function.
So there you have it: The ten (10) best Python tools, plugins, and libraries to help you become more productive.
What are your favorite Python productivity tools? What did we miss in this list that definitely needs to be added
to make it complete?
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