Python

Clients

https://github.com/IBM/cloudant-python-sdk - IBM Cloudant's Apache 2 licensed official client library that is also compatible with Apache CouchDB.

couchdb-python

https://github.com/djc/couchdb-python (no longer being maintained as of Feb 2018)

Older clients:

couchdbkit:  http://couchdbkit.org/ and https://github.com/benoitc/couchdbkit (no updates since 2015)

py-couchdb: Python 3-ready client using requests for http (much faster than the standard library)

https://github.com/niwibe/py-couchdb  (last updated Aug 2014, as of Oct 2014)

https://py-couchdb.readthedocs.org/en/latest/

couchquery: https://github.com/nicolaisi/couchquery/

python-cloudant: https://github.com/cloudant/python-cloudant

Asynchronous Clients

These are clients with asynchronous support, i.e. you don't have to block on that "put" command.  

aiocouchdb: uses asyncio.

aiocouchdb source code on github

aiocouchdb documentation on readthedocs

aiocouchdb on the Python package indexo

Tornado

https://github.com/nephics/tornado-couchdb

Trombi

https://github.com/inoi/trombi - last updated 2012 (as of Mar 2014)

 Corduroy

http://samizdat.cc/corduroy/ - last updated 2012 (as of Mar 2014)

CouchDB with Django

A tutorial on using Django (a Python framework) with CouchDb can be found at

• http://lethain.com/entry/2008/aug/18/an-introduction-to-using-couchdb-with-django/ http://www.eflorenzano.com/blog/post/using-couchdb-django/

Alternatively you can view just the source for that example at

http://github.com/lethain/comfy-django-example/tree/master

List on pypi

https://pypi.python.org/pypi?%3Aaction=search&term=couchdb&submit=search