This is a list of really useful python modules.
- Numeric
- PIL
- BeautifulSoup
- dateutil
- matplotlib matlab style data plots
- feedparser
- httplib2
- Easy Jabber XML-RPC 1.0
- libxml2 and/or lxml
- aspell-python
- mechanize
While I really dislike the poor support for concurrency in Python (and the GIL -- the global interpreter lock -- for threads) which I think makes the language so badly flawed it may prove fatal, the rest of the language is still really great.