The importance of the Standard Library
Python is often described as coming with batteries included, which is usually a reference to its Standard Library. The Python Standard Library is vast, unlike any other language in the tech world. The Python Standard Library includes modules to connect to a socket; that is, one to send emails, one to connect to SQLite, one to work with the locale module, or one to encode and decode JSON and XML.
It is also renowned for including modules such as turtle and tkinter, graphical interfaces that most users probably don’t use anymore, but they have proven useful when Python is taught in schools and universities.
It even includes Integrated Development and Learning Environment (IDLE), a Python-integrated development environment. It is not widely used as there are either other packages within the Standard Library that are used more often or external tools to substitute them. These libraries are divided into high-level modules and lower-level...
