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Question

What is library in python?

Answer 1

A library in a software is a collection of in-built codes that can be called on as function to perform special tasks. There are some standard libraries that have very common and routine tasks. For example:

Math library: is a collection of mathematical functions like mean, min, max and trigonometric function etc.

Matplotlib: is a collection graph plotting tasks.

Numpy: is a collection of functions to perform on matrices.

PIL is an image processing library.

CV2 is a machine vision system library.

Similarly there are machine learning and data science libraries like pandas, scipy etc that are used in data analytics.

Python has stron library base and is very useful in working on critical tasks. NLTK is one such library that works with natural language processing (NLP).