List of Python software

The Python programming language is actively used by many people, both in industry and academia for a wide variety of purposes.

Integrated development environments for Python

See also: Comparison of Python IDEs

• Boa Constructor, a cross-platform IDE for Python development
• Codenvy a cloud development environment
• EasyEclipse, an open source IDE for Python and other languages
• Eclipse with the Pydev plug-in. Eclipse supports many other languages as well.
• Eric, an IDE for Python and Ruby
• Geany, IDE for Python development and other languages
• Koding a free online development environment for many programming languages including Python.
• Komodo IDE an IDE for Python, Perl, PHP and Ruby
• NetBeans, is written in Java and runs everywhere where a JVM is installed.
• Ninja-IDE, free software, written in Python and Qt, Ninja name stands for Ninja-IDE Is Not Just Another IDE
• PIDA, open source IDE written in Python capable of embedding other text editors, such as Vim
• PyCharm, a proprietary and Open Source IDE for Python development
• PyScripter, Free and open-source software Python IDE for Windows.
• PythonAnywhere, an online IDE and Web hosting service
• Pythonista, a commercial Python IDE for iOS
• Python Tools for Visual Studio, Free and open-source plug-in for Visual Studio.
• Stani's Python Editor (SPE), a cross-platform IDE for Python development
• Sublime Text, a text editor.
• Webware for Python, a suite of programming tools for constructing web-based applications in Python
• Wing IDE, cross-platform proprietary with some free versions/licenses IDE for Python

Python package managers and Python distributions

• Anaconda, Python distribution with conda package manager
• Enthought, Enthought Canopy Python with Python package manager
• pip, package management system used to install and manage software packages written in Python
• Python(x,y) a "free scientific and engineering development software for numerical computations, data analysis and data visualization based on Python programming language, Qt graphical user interfaces and Spyder interactive scientific development environment."

Applications

• Anki, a spaced repetition flashcard program
• Bazaar, a free distributed revision control system
• BitTorrent, original client, along with several derivatives
• Blender 3D (software), 3D art and animation program with a game engine. Allows for Python scripting in the game engine and in modelling and animation.
• BuildBot, a continuous integration system
• Calibre, an open source e-book management tool
• Chandler, a personal information manager including calendar, email, tasks and notes support that is not currently under development
• Cinema 4D, a 3D art and animation program for creating intros and 3-Dimensional text. Has a built in Python scripting console and engine.
• Deluge, a BitTorrent client for GNOME
• Dropbox, a web-based file hosting service
• emesene, a MSN/WLM substitute
• EventGhost, Free and open-source automation tool for Windows.
• Exaile, an open source audio player
• Gajim, an instant messaging client for the XMPP protocol
• GlobaLeaks, an open-source whistleblowing framework
• GRAMPS, an open source genealogy software
• Gwibber, a microblogging client
• Getting Things Gnome!, a to-do list manager for Gnome environment based on Getting Things Done philosophy
• Hexinator, a modeling tool for binary files. Uses Python for implementation of custom data types, extended parsing logic and other tasks.
• Image Packaging System, an advanced, cross-platform package management system primarily used in the Solaris operating system and OpenSolaris derivatives
• Juice, a popular podcast downloader
• Mercurial a cross-platform, distributed source management tool
• Miro, a cross-platform internet television application
• Morpheus, file-sharing client/server software operated by the company StreamCast
• MusicBrainz Picard, a cross-platform MusicBrainz tag editor
• Nicotine, a PyGTK Soulseek client
• OpenLP, lyrics projection software
• OpenShot Video Editor
• OpenStack, a cloud computing IaaS platform
• Pip, a package manager used to install and manage Python software packages such as those from the Python Package Index (PyPI) software repository
• PiTiVi, a non-linear video editor
• Portage, the heart of Gentoo Linux, an advanced package management system based on the BSD-style ports system
• Quake Army Knife, an environment for developing 3D maps for games based on the Quake engine
• Quod Libet, a cross-platform free and open source music player, tag editor and library organizer
• Resolver One, a spreadsheet
• RhodeCode, a python based source code management for Git, SVN and Mercurial repositories
• SABnzbd, A Usenet binaries downloader
• Sage (sagemath) combines more than 20 main opensource math packages and provides easy to use web interface with the help of Python
• SCons, a tool for building software
• SpecScripter, screenwriting, story building and screenplay analyzing/critiquing software
• Stellar, a crossplatform python game engine inspired by Game Maker
• Tryton, a three-tier high-level general purpose computer application platform
• Ubuntu Software Center, a graphical package manager, installed by default in Ubuntu 9.10 and higher
• Wammu, a mobile phone management utility
• Wicd, a network manager for Linux
• WikidPad, a free wiki-like outliner for personal thoughts, ideas, to-do lists, contacts, etc. with wiki-like linking between pages.
• YUM, a package management utility for RPM-compatible Linux operating systems
• MicroHOPE IDE, MicroHOPE (Micro-controllers for Hobby Projects and Education) is a micro-controller development system based on Atmel ATmega32. Developed by IUAC, New Delhi, and released as open hardware. Its IDE is written in Python.

Web applications

• ERP5, a powerful open source ERP / CRM used in Aerospace, Apparel, Banking and for e-government
• Gate One, an open source terminal emulator and SSH client
• GNU Mailman, one of the more popular packages for running email mailing lists
• MoinMoin, a wiki engine
• OpenERP, new name Odoo, an open source comprehensive suite of business applications
• Planet, a feed aggregator
• Plone, an open source content management system
• Pyrat is a Laboratory Animal Facility Management Software (or Lab Animal Colony Management Software) written in Python. Its name means "Python based Relational Animal Tracking"
• Roundup, a bug tracking system
• Tor2web, an HTTP proxy for Tor Hidden Services (HS)
• Trac, web-based bug/issue tracking database, wiki, and version control front-end
• Turntable.fm, a discontinued social media site for interactively sharing music
• ViewVC, a web-based interface for browsing CVS and SVN repositories

Video games

• Bridge Commander
• Civilization IV uses Python for most of its tasks
• Disney's Toontown Online is written in Python and uses Panda3D for graphics.
• Battlefield 2 uses Python for all of its addons and a lot of its functionality
• Eve Online uses Stackless Python
• Freedom Force
• Frets on Fire is written in Python and uses Pygame
• The Temple of Elemental Evil, a computer role-playing game based on the classic Greyhawk Dungeons & Dragons campaign setting
• Unity of Command (video game) is an operational-level wargame about the 1942/43 Stalingrad Campaign on the Eastern Front.
• Vampire: The Masquerade – Bloodlines, a computer role-playing game based on the World of Darkness campaign setting
• Vega Strike, an open source space simulator, uses Python for internal scripting
• World of Tanks uses Python for most of its tasks

Web frameworks

• CherryPy, an object-oriented web application server and framework
• Django, an MVC (model, view, controller) web framework
• Bottle, A fast, simple and lightweight WSGI micro web framework
• Flask, a modern, lightweight, well-documented microframework based on Werkzeug and Jinja 2
• Google App Engine, a platform for developing and hosting web applications in Google-managed data centers, including Python.
• Pylons, a lightweight web framework emphasizing flexibility and rapid development
• Pyramid, is a minimalistic web framework inspired by Zope, Pylons and Django
• Quixote, a framework for developing Web applications in Python
• Topsite Templating System, another Python-powered web framework
• TurboGears, a web framework combining SQLObject/SQLAlchemy, Kid/Genshi, and CherryPy/Pylons
• web2py, a full-stack enterprise web application framework, following the MVC design
• Zope, an application server, commonly used to build content management systems
• Tornado, a lightweight non-blocking server and framework

Graphics frameworks

• Pygame, Python bindings for SDL
• Panda3D, a 3D game engine for Python
• Python Imaging Library, a module for working with images
• Python-Ogre, a Python Language binding for the OGRE 3D engine
• Soya3D, a high-level 3D game engine for Python

UI frameworks

• Kivy, open source Python library for developing multitouch application software with a natural user interface (NUI).
• PyGTK, a popular cross-platform GUI library based on GTK+; furthermore, other GNOME libraries also have bindings for Python
• PyQt, another cross-platform GUI library based on Qt; as above, KDE libraries also have bindings
• PySide, an alternative to the PyQt library, released under the BSD-style licence
• Tkinter is Python's de facto GUI it is shipped in most versions of Python and is integrated in the IDLE. It is based Tcl command tool.
• wxPython, a port of wxWidgets and a cross-platform GUI library for Python

Scientific packages

• Astropy, a library of Python tools for astronomy and astrophysics.
• Biopython, a Python molecular biology suite
• graph-tool, a Python module for manipulation and statistical analysis of graphs.
• Pathomx, a workflow-based metabolomics analysis tool.
• NetworkX, a package for the creation, manipulation, and study of complex networks.
• SciPy, a library of scientific and numerical routines
• scikit-learn, a library for machine learning.
• scikit-image, a library for image processing.
• SymPy, a symbolic calculation package
• TomoPy, a package for tomographic data processing and image reconstruction
• Veusz, a scientific plotting package
• VisTrails, a scientific workflow and provenance management software with visual programming interface and integrated visualization (via Matplotlib, VTK).

Mathematical libraries

• Matplotlib, an extension providing MATLAB-like plotting and mathematical functions
• Plotly is a scientific plotting library for creating browser-based graphs.
• NumPy, a language extension that adds support for large and fast, multi-dimensional arrays and matrices
• Sage is a large mathematical software application which integrates the work of nearly 100 free software projects and supports linear algebra, combinatorics, numerical mathematics, calculus, and more.
• SymPy, a symbolic mathematical calculations package

Additional development packages

• Cheetah, a Python-powered template engine and code-generation tool
• Construct, a python library for the declarative construction and deconstruction of data structures
• IPython, a development shell both written in and designed for Python
• Jinja, a Python-powered template engine, inspired by Django's template engine
• mod python, an Apache module allowing direct integration of Python scripts with the Apache web server
• PYthon Remote Objects, a Distributed Object Technology
• PyObjC, a Python to Objective-C bridge that allows writing Mac OS X software in Python
• Setuptools, a package development process library designed to facilitate packaging Python projects by enhancing the Python distutils (distribution utilities) standard library.
• Sphinx (documentation generator), which converts reStructuredText files into HTML websites and other formats including PDF, EPub and Man pages
• Twisted, a networking framework for Python
• VPython, the Python programming language plus a 3D graphics module called Visual

Embedded as a scripting language

Python is, or can be used as the scripting language in these software products.

• Abaqus (Finite Element Software)
• ADvantage Framework
• Amarok
• ArcGIS, a prominent GIS platform, allows extensive modelling using Python
• Autodesk Maya, professional 3D modeler allows Python scripting as an alternative to MEL as of version 8.5
• Autodesk MotionBuilder
• Autodesk Softimage (formerly Softimage|XSI)
• BioNumerics a bioinformatics software suite for the management, storage and (statistical) analysis of all types of biological data.
• Blender
• Boxee, a cross-platform home theater PC software
• Cinema 4D
• Corel Paint Shop Pro
• Claws Mail with Python plugin
• Cyme, an Electrical Power engineering software
• DSHub
• Editorial, a commercial text editor for iOS
• ERDAS Imagine
• EventScripts, plugin for Valve's Source engine
• FreeCAD
• gedit
• GIMP
• GNAT The GNAT programming chain tool (Ada language implementation in GNU gcc), as a GNATcoll reusable components for the applications (with or without PyGTK) and as a scripting language for the commands in the GPS programming environment
• Houdini highly evolved 3D animation package, fully extensible using python
• Inkscape, a free vector graphics editor
• MeVisLab, a medical image processing and visualization software, uses Python for network scripting, macro modules, and application building
• Modo
• Micromine
• Minecraft: Pi Edition (game)
• MSC.Software's CAE packages: Adams, Mentat, SimXpert
• MySQL Workbench, a visual database design tool
• Notepad++ has a plugin named PythonScript that allows scripting Notepad++ in Python
• Nuke (compositing for visual effects)
• ParaView, an opensource scientific visualization software
• Poser, a 3D rendering and animation computer program that uses for scripting a special dialect of Python, called PoserPython
• PyMOL, a popular molecular viewer that embeds Python for scripting and integration
• QGIS uses Python for scripting and plugin-development
• Rhinoceros 3D version 5.0
• Rhythmbox
• Scribus
• 3DSlicer, medical image visualisation and analysis software. Python is available for algorithm implementation, analysis pipelines, and GUI creation.
• SPSS statistical software SPSS Programmability Extension allows users to extend the SPSS command syntax language with Python
• Totem, a media player for the GNOME desktop environment
• Vim
• VisIt
• WeeChat, a console IRC client

Commercial uses

• CCP hf uses Stackless Python in both its server and client side applications for its MMO Eve Online
• NASA is using Python to implement a CAD/CAE/PDM repository and model management, integration, and transformation system which will be the core infrastructure for its next-generation collaborative engineering environment . It is also the development language for OpenMDAO, a framework developed by NASA for solving multidisciplinary design optimization problems.
• "Python has been an important part of Google since the beginning, and remains so as the system grows and evolves. Today dozens of Google engineers use Python."
• reddit was originally written in Common Lisp, but was rewritten in Python in 2005
• Yahoo! Groups uses Python "to maintain its discussion groups"
• YouTube uses Python "to produce maintainable features in record times, with a minimum of developers"
• Enthought uses python as the main language for countless custom applications in Geophysics, Financial applications, Astrophysics, simulations for consumer product companies, ...
• EDF uses Python for their finite element solver Code Aster in combination with Fortran

Python implementations

• ActivePython, the Python implementation from ActiveState, includes a Windows Script Host scripting engine called PythonScript. Scripts written in PythonScript have the default file name extension of .pys.
• CPython - the reference implementation, written in C89.
• CLPython - implementation, written in Common Lisp
• Cython is a programming language to simplify writing C and C++ extension modules for the CPython Python runtime.
• IronPython - Python for .NET and Mono platforms
• Jython - Python coded in Java
• Parrot - virtual machine being developed mainly as the runtime for Perl 6, but with the intent to also support dynamic languages like Python, Ruby, Tcl, etc.
• Psyco - not an implementation, but JIT compiler for CPython
• PyPy - Python (originally) coded in Python, used in conjunction RPython, a restricted subset of Python that is amenable to static analysis and therefore a JIT.
• MicroPython - an implementation of a subset of Python 3.x on microcontrollers and small embedded systems.
• Stackless Python - Python with coroutines
• Unladen Swallow - the Python implementation from the Google team
• Nuitka - Python to C++ compiler

External links

• Python Package Index (formerly the Python Cheese Shop) is the official directory of Python software libraries and modules
• ActiveState O'Reilly Python Cookbook contains hundreds of code samples for various tasks using Python
• Useful Modules in the Python.org wiki
• Organizations Using Python - a list of projects that make use of Python
• Ohloh - open source projects in Python
• pydoc.net - open source package library for Python
• Python.org editors - Multi-platform table of various Python editors
• Minimal Web Frameworks for Python Web Developers