Unofficial Windows Binaries for Python Extension Packages

by Christoph Gohlke, Laboratory for Fluorescence Dynamics, University of California, Irvine.

I just stumbled upon on wonderful resource online dedicated to python libraries. Thanks to Mr. Christoph Gohlke

https://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/

This page is an unofficial repository of hundreds of binaries, wheels and libraries of popular applications including python, which was my interest of subject.

His page provides 32- and 64-bit Windows binaries of many scientific open-source extension packages and wheels for the official CPython distribution of the Python programming language. A few binaries are available for the PyPy distribution.

Even though the files are unofficial (informal, unrecognized, personal, unsupported, no warranty, no liability, provided “as is”), most of these available software published are stable release version where 90% bugs are fixed. It could work on 99% of your personal requirements and projects.

The binaries provided there are compatible with the most recent official CPython distributions on Windows. Chances are they do not work with custom Python distributions included with Blender, Maya, ArcGIS, OSGeo4W, ABAQUS, Cygwin, Pythonxy, Canopy, EPD, Anaconda, WinPython etc. Many binaries are not compatible with Windows XP or Wine.

Python Libraries index – My personal choice for cyber security related experiments.

• Aiohttp, a http client/server for asyncio.
• AutoPy, a GUI automation toolkit.
• Blist, a list-like type with better performance for large lists.
• Blosc, a high performance compressor optimized for binary data.
• Blz, a chunked, compressed, data container (for memory and disk).
• Boost.Python enables seamless interoperability between C++ and Python.
• cChardet, a universal character encoding detector – binding to libcharsetdetect.
• Centrosome, an open source image processing library.
• Crc16 calculates CRC16 (Cyclic Redundancy Check)
• Crcmod computes Cyclic Redundancy Checks (CRC).
• cx_Freeze, a set of scripts and modules for freezing Python scripts into executable.
• Cython, a language for writing Python C extensions.
• gRPCio, a HTTP/2-based Remote Procedure Call (RPC) framework.
• Indexed_gzip, fast random access of gzip files.
• JsonObject, a simple JSON-object mapping.
• Kivy, a library for developing multi-touch applications
• Lazy_object_proxy, a fast and thorough lazy object proxy.
• Msvc_runtime, install the Microsoft™ Visual C++™ runtime DLLs to the sys.prefix and Scripts directories.
• Multiprocess, better multiprocessing and multithreading.
• MySQL-python, a Python database API 2.0 interface for the MySQL database
  Consider mysqlclient, a Python 3 compatible fork of MySQL-python.
• Mysqlclient, a fork of the MySQL-python interface for the MySQL database.
• Netifaces, portable network interface information.
• Psycopg, a PostgreSQL database adapter.
• Py2exe converts Python scripts into executable Windows programs.
• Pyasn, IP address to Autonomous System Number lookup.
• PyAudio provides bindings for the PortAudio library.
  Includes ASIO, DS, WMME, WASAPI, WDMKS support.
• PyBluez, a wrapper around system Bluetooth resources.
• PyCUDA gives access to Nvidia’s parallel computing API.
  Requires pytools, matching CUDA Toolkit, compatible Nvidia driver, and MSVC compiler
• PycURL, a interface to the libcurl library.
• PyDbg, a Win32 debugger interface.
• PyEDA, a library for electronic design automation.
• PyHook, a wrapper for global input hooks in Windows.
  PyWinHook is a maintained fork of this package
• PyMedia, a module for media files manipulations
• PyMix implements algorithms and data structures for data mining applications.
• Pymssql, a simple MS SQL database interface based on FreeTDS.
• PyODBC, an Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) adapter.
• PyOpenCL gives access to the OpenCL parallel computing API.
  Requires pytools, mako, cffi and an OpenCL compatible driver (e.g. from Intel).
• PyOpenGL provides bindings to OpenGL, GLUT, and GLE.
• pyRXP, a fast, validating XML Parser.
• Pysqlite, a DB-API 2.0 interface for SQLite databases.
• Python-cjson implements a very fast JSON encoder/decoder.
• PythonNET provides integration with the .NET Common Language Runtime (CLR) and an application scripting tool for .NET.
  Requires the Microsoft .NET Framework 4.0.
• PyTorch, a deep learning framework.
• PyWin32 provides extensions for Windows.
• PyWinHook, a fork of the PyHook wrapper for global input hooks in Windows.
• PyX, a package for the generation of PostScript and PDF files.
• ReportLab, a PDF generation toolkit.
• Scandir, a directory iterator that returns all file info the OS provides.
• SciPy is software for mathematics, science, and engineering
• SendKeys can be used to send keystrokes to the active window.
• Simplejson, a simple, fast, extensible JSON encoder/decoder.
• Umysql, a ultra fast MySQL driver.
• Winrandom gives direct access to Windows CryptGetRandom function.
• x86cpu, get information about CPU.
• Xgboost, a distributed gradient boosting (GBDT, GBRT or GBM) library.
  Requires the Microsoft Visual C++ Redistributable for Visual Studio 2017.
• Xxhash, a fast non-cryptographic hash algorithm.
• Yappi, Yet Another Python Profiler, supports Multithread/CPU time profiling.
• Yarl, yet another URL library.