What's the difference between a Python module and a Python package?

Question

What\'s the difference between a Python module and a Python package?

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Answer 1

A late answer, yet another definition:

A package is represented by an imported top-entity which could either be a self-contained module, or the __init__.py special module as the top-entity from a set of modules within a sub directory structure.

So physically a package is a distribution unit, which provides one or more modules.