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In researching the tool distutils I stumbled on the term "third-party module". What does that mean?

jonrsharpe
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Nikita Shub
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  • *"Third-party"* means any module not written by you (first party) or included in the [standard library](https://docs.python.org/3/library/) (second party). *[Or maybe 1st and 2nd are the other way around, but the point stands!]* – jonrsharpe Nov 03 '15 at 16:01

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A third party module is any code that has been written by a third party (neither you nor the python writers (PSF)).

You can use them to add functionality to your code without having to write it yourself.

Examples include things like requests that simplifies http requests and nose that helps with unit/integration testing.

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