Learn Python by Building Data Science Applications

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, user input, and Twitter handles. Here is an example: "As you can see, pi is a float, name is a string, age is an integer, and sky_is_blue is a Boolean."

A block of code is set as follows:

import pandas as pdfor word in 'Hello Word!'.split():    print(word)

When we wish to draw your attention to a particular part of a code block, the relevant lines or items are set in bold:

pi = 3.14159265359    # Decimalname = 'Philipp'      # Textage = 31              # Integersky_is_blue = True    # Boolean

Often code will be shown as a print of an interactive console, with ...