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Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning

This category includes libraries for building and interacting with AI models, particularly Large Language Models (LLMs).

  • litellm: A lightweight library that provides a unified interface to interact with a variety of Large Language Model (LLM) APIs from different providers.

Data Science and Scientific Computing

These libraries are fundamental for data manipulation, analysis, and complex numerical operations, often forming the bedrock of scientific and data-intensive applications.

  • scipy<1.16: A core library for scientific and technical computing, offering modules for optimization, linear algebra, integration, and signal processing.
  • networkx<3.5: A library for creating, manipulating, and studying complex networks and graphs, widely used in social network analysis and bioinformatics.
  • psutil: A cross-platform library for accessing system details and process information, useful for monitoring resources in data-intensive applications.
  • diskcache: Provides a fast disk-backed cache, which is useful for storing the results of expensive computations or data processing steps to speed up subsequent runs.

Audio and Image Processing

This group contains libraries specifically designed for handling and manipulating media files like audio and images.

  • pydub: A high-level library for simple audio manipulation, such as slicing, concatenating, and applying effects to audio files.
  • sounddevice: Provides a cross-platform way to play and record audio in real-time by interfacing with a system’s audio drivers.
  • soundfile: Enables reading and writing a wide variety of audio file formats into NumPy arrays, ideal for audio data processing.
  • pillow: The go-to library for image processing in Python, offering extensive capabilities for opening, manipulating, and saving various image formats.

Development Tools and Utilities

These libraries are used to improve the development process itself, from code quality and dependency management to building more interactive and user-friendly applications.

  • GitPython: A library for interacting with Git repositories programmatically, allowing for automation of version control tasks.
  • pyperclip: A simple, cross-platform module for programmatically copying text to and pasting from the system clipboard.
  • pexpect: A library for automating interactive command-line applications by spawning and controlling child processes.
  • watchfiles: A fast file-watching library that can trigger actions (like reloading a server or running tests) when code is changed.
  • shtab: Automates the generation of shell tab completion scripts for command-line tools built with argparse.
  • grep_ast: A tool for searching Python code at the Abstract Syntax Tree (AST) level, allowing for more precise and structural code analysis than text-based search.

Command-Line Interface (CLI) and Configuration

This category is focused on libraries that help build and manage command-line applications and their configurations.

  • rich: A library for creating visually rich and beautifully formatted terminal output, including colors, tables, progress bars, and more.
  • prompt_toolkit: A powerful library for building interactive and advanced command-line interfaces with features like autocompletion and syntax highlighting.
  • configargparse: Extends Python’s argparse module to allow for configuration through command-line arguments, environment variables, and configuration files.
  • pathspec: A library for pattern matching of file paths, commonly used to implement .gitignore-style file filtering.

Data Formatting and Interchange

These libraries are essential for handling, validating, and converting data between different structured formats.

  • jsonschema: Used to validate JSON data against a predefined schema, ensuring data integrity and structure.
  • json5: A parser and serializer for the JSON5 format, a more human-friendly extension of JSON that allows for comments and other conveniences.
  • beautifulsoup4: A library for pulling data out of HTML and XML files, making it a cornerstone of web scraping.
  • PyYAML: The standard library for parsing and emitting YAML, a human-readable data format often used for configuration files.
  • diff-match-patch: Provides algorithms for finding differences between texts, useful for version control and data synchronization.
  • pypandoc: A wrapper for the Pandoc utility, allowing for the conversion of documents between numerous markup formats (e.g., Markdown to HTML).

System and Network Operations

This group includes libraries that deal with lower-level system, network, and I/O operations.

  • backoff: Provides function decorators to automatically retry operations that fail, which is useful for handling unreliable network services.

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