Python libraries are pre-written code designed to simplify programming. Learn how to install Python Libraries in Visual Studio Code.

Once you have installed Python and VS Code IDE, all you need to do is create a Python file. To do that, open Visual Studio Code, go to File > New File, search for Python file, and click on it.

But a recently developed package management tool, PDM — short for Python Development Master — lets you install packages to a project using the PEP 582 storage guidelines.

Python packages can be distributed as self-contained .whl files. Installing them is easy: pip install /path/to/file.whl. It’s also not hard to download wheels as files using pip.