Python3 tutorial - 16 (PIP the Python package manager)

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Lets get started !

So, lets talk about PIP,

What is pip ?

It is a package manager and is used to install external python modules, you can install it using the following command:

python3 -m pip install <package_name>

This command is widely used to prevent reinventing the wheel,

That means if you are making a project and it requires a specific feature to work correctly and you know that the feature may take a big amount of time to complete its development, then you can go to internet or specifically

pypi.org to find packages that may solve the problem for you,

Suppose,

You want to build a web-scraper which scrapes the websites for you and returns useful information, to do this you don't want to make that whole thing and a whole web scraper, instead you can just find one from pypi.org,

This is how the great PIP works,

have look at this:

BeautifulSoup4 is very popular and easy-to-use library and is also available on pypi.org,

This module is widely used for web-scraping,

And...Congratulations on installing your first python3 external module via PIP,

Meet you, in the part :)