Learning pandas

Referencing pandas in the application

All pandas programs and examples in this book will always start by importing pandas (and NumPy) into the Python environment. There is a common convention used in many publications (web and print) of importing pandas and NumPy, which will also be used throughout this book. All workbooks and examples for chapters will start with code similar to the following to initialize the pandas library within Python.

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   # import numpy and pandas, and DataFrame / Series
   import numpy as np
   import pandas as pd
   from pandas import DataFrame, Series

   # Set some pandas options
   pd.set_option('display.notebook_repr_html', False)
   pd.set_option('display.max_columns', 10)
   pd.set_option('display.max_rows', 10)

 # And some ...