Useful Python Tools

This is a list of useful and/or new Python tools that the Unidata Python Team and community are keeping an eye on or using.

Unidata Projects

• MetPy - General meteorological toolkit

• siphon - Remote data access

• netCDF4-python - netCDF4 API

Meteorology Specific

• PyART - Python ARM Radar Toolkit

Data Wrangling

• pandas - Easy tabular data manipulation

• xarray - Gridded/labeled multidimensional data

Plotting

• matplotlib - Beautiful publication quality graphics

• Bokeh - Interactive web graphics

• Cartopy - Plotting maps

Core Python/Interface

• iPython - Interactive Python shell

• Jupyter - Notebooks and the new Jupyter Lab

• pathlib - Easy file path manipulation

Education

• nbgrader - An automatic homework grader for notebooks

Performance

• Numba - JIT compiler

• Dask - Distributed computing