Python packages you need to know about in 2021

Manpreet Singh
4 min readJul 18, 2021

Welcome back! As most of you know, Python is an awesome programming language with a bunch of equally awesome packages, so let’s talk about some of the packages you should definitely keep on your radar (and possibly learn) in 2021! Although these range in uses, you may still be able to extract value from most of these packages, with that long introduction out of the way, let’s get started!

Pillow

Starting off we have Pillow, this is one of the most popular Python packages out there. This specific package allows you to process images, allowing you to utilize images in your Python environment. If you want to learn more about this package, check out the link below:

Numpy

Next up we have NumPy, this is a very popular package that allows us to do some scientific computing within Python. I have created several tutorials that utilize Numpy, i’ve also seen many data science job postings that require knowledge with this package as well, If you want to learn more about this package check out their website below:

Selenium

Next up we have Selenium, one of my favorite web scraping / automation packages out there. Selenium allows you to simulate a web browser with Python, essentially allowing you to pull data from websites and navigate through web pages in this one package! If you want to learn more about this package check out the link below:

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