Our favourite Python libraries

At Knowledge7, we love Python.

We have been using Python for about one year now, in the process, have discovered quite a lot of Python libraries that we use on a daily basis. Here they are:

• Flask is a web framework which we use to build most of our (new) backends.
• SQLAlchemy is an Object-Relational Mapper.
• Requests is used to issue HTTP requests and handle responses.
• Rauth is OAuth for Python.
• BeautifulSoup and pyquery for parsing XML and HTML documents.
• Fabric for sending commands to distant servers using SSH.
• Virtualenvwrapper to create multiple Python environments (useful for testing new libraries for example).

And this is just the beginning.