Difference between psycopg2 and psycopg2-binary?

Question

Python

What is the difference between pip install psycopg2 and pip install psycopg2-binary?

Answer 1

In short - psycopg2 contains sources for recompiling the library, psycopg2-binary contains an already compiled wheel package with binaries
More details about the reason for the split are described here

Answer 2

https://github.com/psycopg/psycopg2/issues/674