Chapter 15. Modules

This is the last chapter that talks about ways of collecting things together. We have already learned about lists, functions, and objects. In this chapter, we’ll learn about modules. In the next chapter, we’ll use a module called Pygame to start drawing some graphics.

What’s a module?

A module is a piece or part of something. We say something is modular if it comes in pieces or you can easily separate it into pieces. LEGO bricks might be the perfect example of something modular. You can take a bunch of different pieces and build many different things with them.

In Python, modules are smaller pieces of a bigger program. ...

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