Appendix A. Installation and setup
Welcome to the supplementary material! This appendix walks you through installing the Python programming language and the pandas library for the macOS and Windows operating systems. A library (also called a package) is a toolbox of features that expands a core programming language’s functionalities—an expansion pack or add-on that offers solutions to common challenges that developers face when working with the language. The Python ecosystem includes thousands of packages for domains such as statistics, HTTP requests, and database management.
A dependency is a piece of software that we need to install to run another piece of software. Pandas is not a stand-alone package; it has a set of dependencies including ...
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