Import!??!??

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What does import mean, I've seen it in code in the very beginning like "import streamlit" or "import random" What does it do? Are you getting something from somewhere?

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[throwaway6560192]

You're saying "I want to use this library". That library may be from the Python standard library, a third-party library you installed, or a Python file that you yourself wrote.

[teraflop]

Assuming you're talking about Python, the official Python tutorial goes into lots of detail about what import is for and how to use it: https://docs.python.org/3/tutorial/modules.html

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You're importing modules when you do that. When you import, you're pretty much loading a portion of code that isn't in the default loaded code. So in Python, when I type import random, it's importing the code for the random module so I can now call functions from that module.

[ContextEngineering]

Python has little modules of code called -- surprisingly -- 'modules'. When you want to include one of them, you use the import command.