PIP is a package management system written in Python. It is a tool that helps to install and manage third-party libraries and packages.
The pip tool is extremely crucial to Python development, and it is included with the Python environment installation since Python 2.7.9.
Let’s say you created a fresh project using Python for a machine learning task.
While you may have the dataset and the applicable algorithm for the task at hand, it is not advisable to write the code for the algorithm from scratch.
Popular open-source libraries like Keras and Tensorflow already contain pre-written, optimized code for your algorithms.
Libraries like Pandas and NumPy contain a routine of methods to help you pre-process or clean your dataset easily. You want to be able to use these directly in your project.
That’s where the Python pip tool comes in.
The pip tool allows you to install these packages directly from the Python Package Index in a hassle-free process.