20 Python Libraries You Aren't Using

by Caleb Hattingh

Genres: Programming, Nonfiction, Technology, Computer Science

74 pages, ebook

First published August 8, 2016

Reviews

[Mohsen · Rating 4 out of 5]

This is one of the books O'riley is offering for free.
I rated this short book 4 stars out of 5 but that's mainly because it lacked the joy you get when reading a fiction. And honestly that's not the book's or the author's fault. It was very informative and easy to read and delivers exactly what it promises. The author is also clearly passionate about the matter which is somehow transfers to you, the reader, too.
A good read. Recommended.

[Héctor Iván Patricio Moreno · Rating 5 out of 5]

Awesome libraries and examples, I learned a lot about Python in general and about the interesting libraries described here. I want to test some of them in my projects and also want to create some projects only to test some!

The author's experience is vast. Very recommended if you're already a Python programmer.

[Jose Manuel Lopez Lujan · Rating 4 out of 5]

Very useful libraries.

[Vishwanath · Rating 4 out of 5]

Another useful book to explore libraries you would not normally use but can easily be added to your arsenal of tricks. This is written in cookbook format with a lot of interesting libraries. Based on this book, I make sure to use the logging, multithreading (where applicable), colorama and sched where possible as they are so easy and fun to implement. The book also gave me a great intro to cython and some leads on where to find more information on this fascinating workaround to speed up python programs circumventing the GIL. Highly recommended !

[Vishell · Rating 3 out of 5]

Usefull packages, python is good as always. Not sure if listing those libraries and putting with some brief description would be dramatic change in quality. Anyway, it's small, and won't take much time to finish. Try it.

[Bobiczdoh · Rating 2 out of 5]

Too cursory for a book, too long for a blogpost.

[Vlad Bezden · Rating 5 out of 5]

Great book. I found a lot of great libraries that I started to use right away on my project. My favorite tool that I found is ptpython.

[Venkatesh-Prasad · Rating 4 out of 5]

Having used Python for years for hacking, I still uncovered some really useful libraries thru this book. Given the short length of the book, it should be read by anyone who uses python :)