Lecture 8

Question 1

what is a module and what is its advantage?

Answer 1

A module is just a Python file.
Keep Python files small
Reuse code across multiple files by importing

Question 2

what is a built in module?

Answer 2

• comes with python by default, we do not need to download them using a package installer.

-We still have to manually import them to use them.

Question 3

how do you rename a module? (incl. syntax)

Answer 3

• We can give the alias to the module name or give it another name which we can refer it by using an as keyword
• Once renamed, we can’t access the name of the module with old name

syntax:

import modulename as alias

Question 4

how do you import parts of a module?

Answer 4

from keywrord

from modulename import methods (separated by commas)

Question 5

how do you import an entire module using from keyword?

Answer 5

from modulename import *

Question 6

what is an external module?

Answer 6

External modules are downloaded from the internet
You can download external modules using pip
pip - Package management system for Python

Question 7

how do you use the help keyword?

Answer 7

to get documentation for a module

ex: import termcolor
print(help(termcolor))