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…😊