Python Standard Library

Some Relevant Portions of the Python Standard Library

Take a look at PEP 594 which recommends removing some standard libraries from Python due to fundamental issues or maintenance burden.

• array
• bisect – manipulate sorted lists
• collections – additional data types
• configparser
• csv
• datetime
• difflib
• doctest – for running tests embedded in docstrings
• email
• heapq
• html
• itertools – efficient iterators
• json
• logging
• math – tools for random, statistics, floating point math
• os
  • os.path
• pathlib
• pdb – Python Debugger
• pickle – object serialization
  • Davide Mastromatteo. The Python pickle Module: How to Persist Objects in Python. realpython, 4/2020.
• pprint – for pretty printing
• pydoc – documentation generation
• pytest
• random – generate pseudo-random numbers
• re – for regular expressions
• sched – event scheduler
• sqlite3
• statistics
• string
• sys
• sysconfig
• typing – Allows type hinting
• unittest – Framework for unit testing.
• urllib
  • urllib.parse – For constructing and deconstructing URLs
  • urllib.request – For opening URLs
• venv – Virtual Environments