Simple pure-python library that reads and writes EXIF from jpeg and tiff files.

Seems nice and has no native dependencies.

https://pypi.org/project/piexif/

Swiss army knife library for image manipulation. Does not support modifying exif tags (as far as I know). Does not provide public api for exif getting tags.

Is nice since if you are doing any image manipulation you probably use PIL.

from PIL import Image

image = Image.open(f)
exif_data = image._getexif()

https://pillow.readthedocs.io/en/5.1.x/

Standard library for manipulatinb exif tags seems to be: http://exiv2.org/.

It has python wrapper here: py3exiv2

GOobject wrapper over exiv2 which has native python bindings.

I did not use this one due to lack of clear instruction on how to install it in virtualenv.

https://wiki.gnome.org/Projects/gexiv2