Performance Python Packages

cython

The most widely used Python to C compiler

requests-cache

Persistent HTTP cache for python requests

pytest-benchmark

pytest fixture for benchmarking code

locust

Write scalable load tests in plain Python 🚗💨

pyinstrument

🚴 Call stack profiler for Python. Shows you why your code is slow!

flpc

A Rust-based regex crate wrapper for Python3 to get faster performance. 👾

yappi

Yet Another Python Profiler, but this time multithreading, asyncio and gevent aware.

scandir

Better directory iterator and faster os.walk(). Archived, as this has been in the stdlib since Python 3.5.

isal

Faster zlib and gzip compatible compression and decompression by providing python bindings for the isa-l library.

nuitka

Nuitka is a Python compiler written in Python. It's fully compatible with Python 2.6, 2.7, 3.4-3.13. You feed it your Python app, it does a lot of clever things, and spits out an executable or extension module.

rtest

Python test runner built in Rust

austin-dist

Python frame stack sampler for CPython

tsdownsample

High-performance time series downsampling algorithms for visualization

iteration-utilities

Utilities based on Pythons iterators and generators.

zlib-ng

A drop-in replacement for Python's zlib and gzip modules using zlib-ng

collectfast

A faster collectstatic command.

django-cachalot

No effort, no worry, maximum performance.

fastrand

Fast random number generation in an interval in Python: Up to 10x faster than random.randint.

pyopencl

OpenCL integration for Python, plus shiny features

scout-apm

ScoutAPM Python Agent. Supports Django, Flask, and many other frameworks.

typedunits

A fast units and dimensions library with support for static dimensionality checking and protobuffer serialization.

instana

:snake: Python Distributed Tracing & Metrics Sensor for Instana

fast-histogram

:zap: Fast 1D and 2D histogram functions in Python :zap:

pyperformance

Python Performance Benchmark Suite