installing and using python packages package contains all the files you need for module modules are python code libraries you can include in your project since python is open source you can find thousands of python packages that you can install and use in your python programs you can use python distribution like anaconda distribution (or similar python distributionsto download and install many common python packages as mentioned previously what is pippip is package manager for python packagesor modules if you like pip is tool for installing python packages if you do not have pip installedyou can download and install it from this pagepip is typically used from the command prompt (windowsor terminal window (macosinstalling python packages packagename uninstalling python packages packagename some python editors also have graphical way of installing python packageslikee visual studio