Chapter 1. Preparing Your Working Environment
In this chapter, you will cover the following recipes:
- Installing matplotlib, NumPy, and SciPy
- Installing virtualenv and virtualenvwrapper
- Installing matplotlib on Mac OS X
- Installing matplotlib on Windows
- Installing Python Imaging Library (PIL) for image processing
- Installing a requests module
- Customizing matplotlib's parameters in code
- Customizing matplotlib's parameters per project
Introduction
This chapter introduces the reader to the essential tooling and their installation and configuration. This is necessary work and a common base for the rest of the book. If you have never used Python for data and image processing and visualization, it is advised not to skip this chapter. Even if you do skip it, you ...
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