Where and how is the term used WRAPPER in programming, what does it help to do?

Question

I come across software developers using the term of creating Wrappers of other classes or APIs or even some codes, this is a term used by experienced Software Programmers

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Answer 1

It's just that you write some easy to use code to hide the complexities of the code underneath. It's especially useful when you need to call some low level API from a higher level language and you want to keep all the "ugly" code hidden away.

Edit: You can find more about it in these two wiki articles: library and function