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.

Multiple code packages were uploaded to the Python Package Index, often abbreviated as PyPI, and were subsequently incorporated into software multiple times from June through this month, Slovakia ...

If you've read a fair amount of Python code, then you've probably seen this "__init__.py" file pop up quite a few times. It's especially common in larger Python projects. I'm going to breakdown ...

And so, only relatively recently did third-party modules start showing up that allow Python apps to be packaged as standalone binaries. PyInstaller — which I covered previously — is one such app.