External Packages (page 1 of 38)

The internal python modules are wonderful, but the real power of Python is with the external packages that we can download from pypi.org to seemlessly use. External packages such as numpy, pandas, seaborn, and researchpy make it significantly easier to work with data. We use the standard package manager "pip" (introduced by Ian Bicking in 2008) to manage external packages. pip stands for Python Package Manager. A package is any grouping of code that may be used in isolation to achieve a given task. Do not get confused with the terms package, module, and library. We use pip to install external code, which may be a module, a package, or a library. As such, I use the terms synonymously even though they are technically different.