Chapter 12. Modules

Chapter Topics

• What Are Modules?

• Modules and Files

• Namespaces

• Importing Modules

• Importing Module Attributes

• Module Built-in Functions

• Packages

• Other Features of Modules

This chapter focuses on Python modules and how data are imported from modules into your programming environment. We will also take a look at packages. Modules are a means to organize Python code, and packages help you organize modules. We conclude this chapter with a look at other related aspects of modules.

12.1 What Are Modules?

A module allows you to logically organize your Python code. When code gets to be large enough, the tendency is to break it up into organized pieces that can still interact with one another at ...

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