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A [[Python Module]] is a [[software module file]] that contains [[Python definition]]s and [[Pythong statement]]s.
A [[Python Module]] is a [[software module file]] that contains [[Python definition]]s and [[Python statement]]s.
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** It can be used by a [[Python Program]].
** It can be used by a [[Python Program]].

Revision as of 02:56, 29 July 2014

A Python Module is a software module file that contains Python definitions and Python statements.



References

2013

  • https://docs.python.org/2/tutorial/modules.html
    • If you quit from the Python interpreter and enter it again, the definitions you have made (functions and variables) are lost. Therefore, if you want to write a somewhat longer program, you are better off using a text editor to prepare the input for the interpreter and running it with that file as input instead. This is known as creating a script. As your program gets longer, you may want to split it into several files for easier maintenance. You may also want to use a handy function that you’ve written in several programs without copying its definition into each program.

      To support this, Python has a way to put definitions in a file and use them in a script or in an interactive instance of the interpreter. Such a file is called a module; definitions from a module can be imported into other modules or into the main module (the collection of variables that you have access to in a script executed at the top level and in calculator mode).

      A module is a file containing Python definitions and statements. The file name is the module name with the suffix .py appended. Within a module, the module’s name (as a string) is available as the value of the global variable __name__. For instance, use your favorite text editor to create a file called fibo.py in the current directory with the following contents: ..