Summary
In this chapter, we introduced the concept of Python modules and saw how Python modules are simply Python source files, which are imported and used by another source file. We then took a look at Python packages and saw that these are collections of modules identified by a package initialization file named __init__.py.
We explored how modules and packages can be used to organize your program's source code and why the use of these modular techniques is so important for the development of large systems. We also explored what spaghetti code looks like and discovered some of the other pitfalls that can occur if you don't modularize your programs.
Next, we looked at programming as a process of constant change and evolution and how modular programming ...
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