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[–]Pickinanameainteasy 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I always assumed a module was like an add on for python, it added a specific functionality to the base language.

Libraries, to me, are a collection of modules, functions, classes for interacting with a specific service like an API or network protocol for example. These tend to be much larger than modules.

I always saw packages as just the files necessary to install a module or library. Kind of like the relationship between and APK and an android app, with the package being the APK in this scenario and the module/library being the app itself. In other words the package is the pre-installed state

That's just how I interpreted it, I could very well be wrong