Python - recommended packages
By Niraj Zade | 2024 Oct 14 | tags: python 2 resources 5
- Infrastructure
- python-dotenv - read key-value pairs from .env file and set them as env variables
- nuikta - python compiler to package the application into a single binary. Useful for avoiding pip while building images, or shipping a single executable to users (eg - desktop apps, binaries to deploy via ansible etc)
- Testing
- pytest - Easier to work with. Better testing than unittest (fixtures etc)
- HTTP requests
httpx(built on top of requests. Brings in async support, http2)requests- not recommended ashttpxnow exists.
- HTML parsing
selectolax- generally 20x faster thanbeautifulsoup4.beautifulsoup4- simple to use. Has limited parallelism as its HTTP calls are blocking.