Python - recommended packages

2024 Oct 14  |  0 min read  |  tags: python 1 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 as httpx now exists.
  • HTML parsing
    • selectolax - generally 20x faster than beautifulsoup4.
    • beautifulsoup4 - simple to use. Has limited parallelism as its HTTP calls are blocking.

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