Hands-On Data Analysis with Pandas

Conventions used

There are a number of text conventions used throughout this book.

CodeInText: Indicates code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, dummy URLs, and user input. Here is an example: "Use pip to install the packages in the requirements.txt file."

A block of code is set as follows. The start of the line will be preceded by >>> and continuations of that line will be preceded by ...:

>>> import pandas as pd>>> df = pd.read_csv(...     'data/fb_2018.csv', index_col='date', parse_dates=True... )>>> df.head()

Any code without the preceding >>> or ... is not something we will run—it is for reference:

try:    del df['ones']except KeyError:    # handle the error here    pass

When we wish to draw ...