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	Distribution package vs. import package
	A number of different concepts are commonly referred to by the word "package". This page clarifies the differences between two distinct but related meanings in Python packaging, "distribution package" and "import package".
	What's a distribution package?	Fonto-Distribuoj kontraste kun Wheel-oj
	A distribution package is a piece of software that you can install. Most of the time, this is synonymous with "project". When you type ``pip install pkg``, or when you write ``dependencies = ["pkg"]`` in your ``pyproject.toml``, ``pkg`` is the name of a distribution package. When you search or browse the PyPI_, the most widely known centralized source for installing Python libraries and tools, what you see is a list of distribution packages. Alternatively, the term "distribution package" can be used to refer to a specific file that contains a certain version of a project.
	Note that in the Linux world, a "distribution package", most commonly abbreviated as "distro package" or just "package", is something provided by the system package manager of the `Linux distribution <distro_>`_, which is a different meaning.
	What's an import package?	kaj enportu la pakon:
	An import package is a Python module. Thus, when you write ``import pkg`` or ``from pkg import func`` in your Python code, ``pkg`` is the name of an import package. More precisely, import packages are special Python modules that can contain submodules. For example, the ``numpy`` package contains modules like ``numpy.linalg`` and ``numpy.fft``. Usually, an import package is a directory on the file system, containing modules as ``.py`` files and subpackages as subdirectories.
	You can use an import package as soon as you have installed a distribution package that provides it.
	What are the links between distribution packages and import packages?
	Most of the time, a distribution package provides one single import package (or non-package module), with a matching name. For example, ``pip install numpy`` lets you ``import numpy``.
	However, this is only a convention. PyPI and other package indices do not enforce any relationship between the name of a distribution package and the import packages it provides. (A consequence of this is that you cannot blindly install the PyPI package ``foo`` if you see ``import foo``; this may install an unintended, and potentially even malicious package.)

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