Have you ever wished you could edit Python packages installed locally without reinstalling them? Editable installs are the ...

For one, there is no native mechanism for compiling a Python program into a standalone executable package. To be fair, the original use case for Python never called for standalone redistributables.

You might be wondering what a Python “package” is, and how it relates to the Python module. Essentially, a package is a group of modules with an __init__.py fie that ties them all together.