Popular Python Packages and Their
Uses
1. GUI Development
tkinter: Default GUI toolkit (comes with Python)
customtkinter: Modern dark/light themed Tkinter
PyQt5 / PySide2: Advanced GUI development (professional apps)
Kivy: GUI apps for desktop and mobile
wxPython: Native-looking desktop apps
PySimpleGUI: Simplified GUI layer over Tkinter, Qt, etc.
2. Web Development
Flask: Lightweight web framework
Django: Full-featured web framework
FastAPI: Fast, modern API development
requests: Make HTTP requests (APIs)
beautifulsoup4: Web scraping HTML pages
selenium: Automate browser interaction
httpx: Modern alternative to requests
urllib3: Lower-level HTTP library
3. Data Science & Math
numpy: Numerical operations
pandas: Data manipulation and analysis
matplotlib: Plotting/graphing
seaborn: Statistical plotting
scikit-learn: Machine learning
tensorflow: Deep learning (Google)
torch: Deep learning (Facebook - PyTorch)
sympy: Symbolic math
openpyxl: Work with Excel files
xlrd / xlwt: Excel reading/writing
statsmodels: Statistical modeling
4. Automation & Scripting
pyautogui: Control keyboard/mouse
schedule: Task scheduling
watchdog: File/folder monitoring
subprocess: Run terminal commands
shutil: File operations
os: OS-level operations
platform: Detect OS, architecture
pyinput: Detect input devices
5. Cybersecurity & Networking
scapy: Packet crafting and sniffing
socket: Basic networking
paramiko: SSH into other machines
requests: API calls for web hacking
nmap: Interface with Nmap for scanning
cryptography: Encrypt/decrypt data
hashlib: Hashing functions (SHA256, MD5, etc.)
pyshark: Packet capture and analysis
mitmproxy: Intercept network traffic
6. Game Development
pygame: 2D game development
arcade: Modern game dev
pyglet: Media/game framework
ursina: 3D game development
7. AI, NLP & Chatbots
transformers: Pretrained AI models (NLP)
nltk: Natural language processing
spacy: Fast NLP processing
gTTS: Google Text-to-Speech
pyttsx3: Offline Text-to-Speech
speech_recognition: Convert speech to text
openai: Access GPT models
chatterbot: Simple chatbot engine
8. Databases
sqlite3: Built-in database
sqlalchemy: ORM (database toolkit)
pymongo: MongoDB integration
mysql-connector-python: Connect to MySQL
psycopg2: Connect to PostgreSQL
redis: Key-value store
9. File Management & Utilities
os: File and folder access
shutil: Copy/move/delete files
zipfile: Compress/unzip files
pathlib: Easy path handling
glob: Wildcard file search
10. Multimedia
pillow: Image processing
opencv-python: Image/video capture and editing
moviepy: Video editing
pyttsx3: Text-to-Speech
gtts: Google Text-to-Speech
playsound: Play audio files