AI engineering glossary · Python core
What is standard library?
Standard library: The collection of modules that ship with Python, covering tasks such as maths, dates, files, JSON, regular expressions and networking, with no installation needed. Knowing it avoids reinventing common tools.
Standard library: an example
import json, datetime, random and pathlib are all standard-library modules.
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Where you learn it
Standard library is part of the AI Engineering Program, which teaches it with notes, a hands-on lab and an exam. The first lesson is free.