An opinionated guide to the best Python frameworks, libraries, and tools.
README.md is the single source of content truth; website/ renders it into the static site: awesome-python.com.
CONTRIBUTING.md holds the admission rules, quality requirements, rejection rules, entry format, and ordering. Apply it whenever adding or removing an entry — direct commits included, not only PR reviews.
- Every keep/drop reason must be verified against current online data at decision time — download counts, repo activity and archived status, PyPI metadata, project docs. Judging tiers — obvious choice vs challenger — also requires WebSearch evidence (adoption trajectory, community sentiment), not download counts alone. Training-data recollections are not evidence; label anything unverifiable as a judgment call.
- One entry per commit when adding or deleting entries. Exceptions: a prune sweep is one commit per section, its body listing each removal with its reason; format, wording, or categorization changes may be bundled. Cross-section re-homes ride the originating audit's commit (both sides of the move in one diff).
- Resources sections are not project entries: out of audit scope, and the website never parses them.
- Sponsor placement never influences which projects get listed — see SPONSORSHIP.md.