PIP (page 1 of 4)

The standard package manager for Python is "pip". The name "pip" was introduced by Ian Bicking in 2008.

pip is an acronym that stands for Python Package Manager. A package is any grouping of code that may be used in isolation to achieve a given task. For the purposes of my discussion of pip, do not get confused with the terms package, module, and library. We use pip to install external code (from pypi.org), which may be a module, a package, or a library. As such, I use the terms synonymously even though they are technically different.