Rawpy https://pypi.org/project/rawpy/

A python library to process raw photos.

I personally think it would be pretty cool to skip all kinds of Lightroom, Darktable etc. with python scripts. Like e.g. having custom presets with arbitrary complexity, custom if-else cases, plug and play with other python packages, machine learning, export import numpy ... all that would be SO COOL. But rawpy is still in its very early infancy. Comparing it to Lightroom is still far far in the future. Their current goal is only wrapping libraw into python.

I myself would love to full dive in into this project but I have zero time for such a big side project