Contributing to open source projects is great for your reputation, skill development and knowledge as a developer.
In this article, I will be going through 9 open source Python projects that you can join today!
9. Django
Ah yes, the famous web development framework made for Python. It has more than 60k stars on Github and is used by millions of Python developers around the world.
The Web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.
Django
Django is a high-level Python web framework that encourages rapid development
and clean, pragmatic design. Thanks for checking it out.
All documentation is in the "docs" directory and online at
https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/stable/. If you're just getting started
here's how we recommend you read the docs:
First, read docs/intro/install.txt for instructions on installing Django.
Next, work through the tutorials in order (docs/intro/tutorial01.txtdocs/intro/tutorial02.txt, etc.).
If you want to set up an actual deployment server, read
docs/howto/deployment/index.txt for instructions.
You'll probably want to read through the topical guides (in docs/topics)
next; from there you can jump to the HOWTOs (in docs/howto) for specific
problems, and check out the reference (docs/ref) for gory details.
See docs/README for instructions on building an HTML version of the docs.
Docs are updated rigorously. If you find any problems in the docs, or think
they should be…
If you have experience with web development in Python and are looking to join an open source project, Django is the project for you!
Start contributing to Django here.
8. Scrapy
Scrapy is the most popular Python web scraping library with over 40k stars on github.
Scrapy, a fast high-level web crawling & scraping framework for Python.
Scrapy
Overview
Scrapy is a BSD-licensed fast high-level web crawling and web scraping framework, used to
crawl websites and extract structured data from their pages. It can be used for
a wide range of purposes, from data mining to monitoring and automated testing.
If you're into web scraping with Python and want to work on improving the web scraping library used by thousands of Python developers, start contributing to Scrapy through this page.
7. Scikit-Learn
If you've been involved in machine learning with Python for some time, you've probably come across this library.
scikit-learn is a Python module for machine learning built on top of
SciPy and is distributed under the 3-Clause BSD license.
The project was started in 2007 by David Cournapeau as a Google Summer
of Code project, and since then many volunteers have contributed. See
the About us page
for a list of core contributors.
It is currently maintained by a team of volunteers.
Scikit-learn 0.20 was the last version to support Python 2.7 and Python 3.4.
scikit-learn 1.0 and later require Python 3.7 or newer.
scikit-learn 1.1 and later require Python 3.8 or newer.
Scikit-learn plotting capabilities (i.e., functions start with plot_ and
classes end with Display) require Matplotlib (>= 3.3.4)
For running the examples Matplotlib >= 3.3.4 is required.
A few examples require scikit-image >= 0.17.2,…
If you have experience with machine learning and data visualization with Python and want to contribute to one of the most popular Python machine learning libraries, start contributing to scikit-learn here.
6. Pandas
Pandas is the most popular data analysis/manipulation library for Python.
Flexible and powerful data analysis / manipulation library for Python, providing labeled data structures similar to R data.frame objects, statistical functions, and much more
pandas: powerful Python data analysis toolkit
Testing
Package
Meta
What is it?
pandas is a Python package that provides fast, flexible, and expressive data
structures designed to make working with "relational" or "labeled" data both
easy and intuitive. It aims to be the fundamental high-level building block for
doing practical, real world data analysis in Python. Additionally, it has
the broader goal of becoming the most powerful and flexible open source data
analysis / manipulation tool available in any language. It is already well on
its way towards this goal.
If you know how to work with data in Python and want to help build the future of data analysis/manipulation in Python, start contributing to pandas here.
5. Flask
Flask is another popular Python web development library with over 50k stars on Github.
The Python micro framework for building web applications.
Flask
Flask is a lightweight WSGI web application framework. It is designed
to make getting started quick and easy, with the ability to scale up to
complex applications. It began as a simple wrapper around Werkzeug
and Jinja, and has become one of the most popular Python web
application frameworks.
Flask offers suggestions, but doesn't enforce any dependencies or
project layout. It is up to the developer to choose the tools and
libraries they want to use. There are many extensions provided by the
community that make adding new functionality easy.
A Simple Example
# save this as app.pyfromflaskimportFlaskapp=Flask(__name__)
@app.route("/")defhello():
return"Hello, World!"
$ flask run
* Running on http://127.0.0.1:5000/ (Press CTRL+C to quit)
Donate
The Pallets organization develops and supports Flask and the libraries
it uses. In order to…
If you're looking to help build the future of web development with Python, start contributing to flask here.
4. Requests
Requests, the OG library used by millions that is used for making HTTP requests with Python. This might be pretty underwhelming, but you see, the requests library is used to connect to API endpoints, authenticate web connections, scrape data from the web, test web endpoints and more!
Without the requests library, Python wouldn't be where it is today.
Requests allows you to send HTTP/1.1 requests extremely easily. There’s no need to manually add query strings to your URLs, or to form-encode your PUT & POST data — but nowadays, just use the json method!
Requests is one of the most downloaded Python packages today, pulling in around 30M downloads / week— according to GitHub, Requests is currently depended upon by 1,000,000+ repositories. You may certainly put your trust in this code.
Matplotlib produces publication-quality figures in a variety of hardcopy
formats and interactive environments across platforms. Matplotlib can be
used in Python scripts, Python/IPython shells, web application servers
and various graphical user interface toolkits.
If you're involved with data visualization with Python and want to contribute to the most used and versatile data visualization library in Python, start contributing to Matplotlib here.
2. Keras
With over 50k stars on Github, Keras is a simple, versatile and robust library for building neural networks with Python.
Keras 3 is a multi-backend deep learning framework, with support for JAX, TensorFlow, and PyTorch
Effortlessly build and train models for computer vision, natural language processing, audio processing
timeseries forecasting, recommender systems, etc.
Accelerated model development: Ship deep learning solutions faster thanks to the high-level UX of Keras
and the availability of easy-to-debug runtimes like PyTorch or JAX eager execution.
State-of-the-art performance: By picking the backend that is the fastest for your model architecture (often JAX!),
leverage speedups ranging from 20% to 350% compared to other frameworks. Benchmark here.
Datacenter-scale training: Scale confidently from your laptop to large clusters of GPUs or TPUs.
Join nearly three million developers, from burgeoning startups to global enterprises, in harnessing the power of Keras 3.
Installation
Install with pip
Keras 3 is available on PyPI as keras. Note that Keras 2 remains available…
An Open Source Machine Learning Framework for Everyone
Documentation
TensorFlow is an end-to-end open source platform
for machine learning. It has a comprehensive, flexible ecosystem of
toolslibraries, and
community resources that lets
researchers push the state-of-the-art in ML and developers easily build and
deploy ML-powered applications.
TensorFlow was originally developed by researchers and engineers working within
the Machine Intelligence team at Google Brain to conduct research in machine
learning and neural networks. However, the framework is versatile enough to be
used in other areas as well.
TensorFlow provides stable Python
and C++ APIs, as well as a
non-guaranteed backward compatible API for
other languages.
I hope that in this article, you've found the open source project that you would like to contribute to, and help build the future of Python.
Educative
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It is home to hundreds of development courses, hands on tutorials, guides and demonstrations to help you stay ahead of the curve in your development journey.