Pip Pip Hooray

As we begin to develop our projects, we’ll be calling upon a number of additional Python packages not included in the core Python distribution. This is one of the reasons why Python is so powerful. Many smart and generous Python developers have already done the hard work of writing the code to access a number of web services, perform powerful data manipulations, interact with databases, and more.

The most popular Python package management and distribution system used today is called Pip. Pip is a recursive acronym for “Pip installs packages” and makes Python package installation a breeze. Pip3 is already installed on the Desktop version of Raspberry Pi OS. If you opted for the non-desktop version (Raspberry Pi OS Lite), you ...

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