10 Interesting modules in Python to play with

Of course, if something outside your program changes the clipboard contents, the paste() function will return it. For example, if this sentence is copied to the clipboard and then paste() is called, the output would look like this:

‘For example, if this sentence is copied to the clipboard and then paste() is called, the output would look like this:’

Emoji

Emojis have become a way to express and to enhance simple boring texts. Now, the same gems can be used in Python programs too. Yes, really! You now have the ultimate power to use emojis in your code. For this, emoji module is needed to be installed.

In terminal. Use:

pip install emoji 

To upgrade to the latest packages of emojis. Here’s how it can be done:

pip install emoji --upgrade

Use the emoji cheat sheet to find your favorite emoji.
Alternatively, encode() function can be used from emojis module to convert Unicode to emojis:

Hope you try it!

Howdoi

Stuck on a coding problem? Wish to visit StackOverflow without leaving the terminal? With howdoi, you can do it!

Install the howdoi module by:

pip install howdoi

Or install from Python by:

python setup.py install

Ask whatever question you have and it will try it’s best to answer it.

From now, you don’t need to open those browsers for a quick search and get those hefty amounts of ads and distractions. Just howdoi!

Wikipedia

As if howdoi wasn’t enough, we can now import the entire Wikipedia! Yes, We can now import Wikipedia in Python using Wikipedia module. Use the incessant flow of knowledge with Python for daily needs.
Install it as:

pip install wikipedia

And use it as:

If you wish to get a particular number of sentences from the summary, just pass that as an argument to the summary() function:

New types at runtime

This can create new types in a fully dynamic way. It’s the same as creating a class but something new which you can show to your friends.

Output:

<class '__main__.NewType'>
hello newtype

The above code is same as:

Output:

<class '__main__.NewType'>
hello newtype

Probably not the best module but still worth a try!

Disassemble Python

Ever wondered what python does under the hood? With the standard library module dis, you can look easily.

Output:

Result:
  8           0 LOAD_GLOBAL              0 (str)
              3 LOAD_FAST                0 (number)
              6 CALL_FUNCTION            1 (1 positional, 0 keyword pair)
              9 LOAD_GLOBAL              0 (str)
             12 LOAD_FAST                0 (number)
             15 CALL_FUNCTION            1 (1 positional, 0 keyword pair)
             18 BINARY_ADD
             19 RETURN_VALUE
  

  3           0 LOAD_GLOBAL              0 (print)
              3 LOAD_CONST               1 ('Hello')
              6 LOAD_FAST                0 (string)
              9 CALL_FUNCTION            2 (2 positional, 0 keyword pair)
             12 POP_TOP
             13 LOAD_CONST               0 (None)
             16 RETURN_VALUE

That’s overwhelming and also amazing!

Antigravity

The reason this module is here is because this is quite fun! It’s basically an easter egg in Python 3 which is used in Google App Engines. It was added to Google App Engines just as a medium to amuse the users.

Install it with:

pip install antigravity

And then type this in your IDE to see the magic:

This opens up a page in your web browser which contains a comical abstract of Python developed for your delight. Congratulations! You know have the ability to fly or for now the ability to visit this link https://xkcd.com/353/.

sys.exit()

You may have used the sys module before but did you know you could exit your program early using it? We can cause the program to terminate by calling the sys.exit() function. Since this function is in the sys module, firstly, the sys module should be imported. This is not a third party module and comes built-in with Python so there is no need to install it.

If the input is :

"Geeky"
"Lazyroar"
"exit"

The output will be :

Type 'exit' to exit
You typed Geeky

Type 'exit' to exit
You typed Lazyroar

Type 'exit' to exit
Exiting the program

urllib

Urllib module is the URL handling module for python. It is used to fetch URLs (Uniform Resource Locators). It uses the urlopen function and is able to fetch URLs using a variety of different protocols.

Urllib is a package that collects several modules for working with URLs, such as:

• urllib.request for opening and reading.
• urllib.parse for parsing URLs
• urllib.error for the exceptions raised
• urllib.robotparser for parsing robot.txt files

The output would be:

Server: Apache
Strict-Transport-Security: max-age=3600; includeSubDomains
Access-Control-Allow-Credentials: true
X-Frame-Options: DENY
X-Content-Type-Options: nosniff
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8
X-Akamai-Transformed: 9 - 0 pmb=mRUM,3
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Cache-Control: must-revalidate, max-age=3, s-maxage=21600
Date: Fri, 04 Oct 2019 04:57:37 GMT
Transfer-Encoding: chunked
Connection: close
Connection: Transfer-Encoding
Server-Timing: cdn-cache; desc=HIT
Server-Timing: edge; dur=1

You can also see the coding of the website by using read() function:

Output:

Turtle

Yes, a turtle can be imported. Don’t worry it’s not slow. Turtle is a Python module to draw. It has a huge application and a number of methods which you can learn about in here. But with just a few basics, pretty cool stuff can be done. This module comes built-in with Python so there is no need to install it.