11. Installing packages

Python has one of the largest programming community who build 3rd party packages and support community help ❤️.

That’s pretty good, Now, how do we install the packages 🤔? We could use Python’s package manager PIP.

Python’s official 3rd party package repository is Python Package Index (PyPI) and its index url is https://pypi.org/simple

Here’s how to use PIP in shell/terminal:

To search for a package:

pip search [package name]

To install a package: Install

    pip install [package name]

Install a specific version

    pip install [package name]==[version]

Install greater than a specific version

    pip install [package name]>=[verion]

To uninstall a package

pip uninstall [package name]

11.1. Tidbits 🔔

There are modern ways of managing the dependencies using Poetry, Flit etc.. We will get to those soon…😊