Python Library Awards

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• shittiest API: matplotlib
• most addictive: collections (.Counter/.defaultdict)
• recurrently useful: glob, shutil, BeautifulSoup
• "i didn't know this was built-in, but now this one time that i need it, i'm glad it's there": dateutil, bisect
• most painful to install, always: opencv-python
• library of the year: dataset
• play it again, Sam: Pillow
• for being almost useful, many times: pygame
• good: chess
• scientifically useful: astropy
• dangerous but still no safe alternative: pickle
• most beautiful output: rich
• most beautiful input: argparse
• so useful, it should probably be built in: more_itertools, natsort
• progress bar go brrrrr: tqdm
• powerful: z3-solver (great tutorial here), ortools