Most Frequently Used Python Libraries
Data Analysis & Visualization
- pandas: Data manipulation and analysis (tables, CSVs, Excel)
- numpy: Numerical operations and array processing
- matplotlib: Plotting and charting (graphs, histograms, etc.)
- seaborn: Statistical data visualization (built on matplotlib)
- plotly: Interactive plots and dashboards
Machine Learning & AI
- scikit-learn: ML algorithms like regression, clustering, classification
- tensorflow: Deep learning framework (by Google)
- keras: User-friendly neural network API (runs on TensorFlow)
- xgboost: Optimized gradient boosting for ML competitions
- torch (PyTorch): Deep learning (by Facebook, very popular in research)
Web Development
- flask: Lightweight web framework
- django: Full-featured web framework
- requests: Make HTTP requests easily
- beautifulsoup4: Scrape and parse HTML and XML pages
Automation, Testing, and Utilities
- os: Interact with the operating system
- sys: System-specific parameters and functions
- re: Regular expressions
- time: Time and sleep functions
- unittest: Testing framework
- pytest: More advanced testing tools
- shutil: High-level file operations (copy, move, etc.)
Others
- openpyxl: Work with Excel files (.xlsx)
- pygame: Game development
- tkinter: GUI application development (built-in)
- sqlite3: Use SQL databases directly from Python
- json: Work with JSON data