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Install and Configuration

Python on Windows

Package Installation

There are a number of ways to install 3rd-party libraries for Python. Generally, the easiest method is to use a package manager that can also handle the downloading/installation of dependencies (additional libraries that a particular module might depend on). Below are the two standard package managers for Python:

• easy_install - the classic package manager that is part of the setuptools library
• pip, the emerging standard for Python package management

Learning Python, Discussion Leaders

• Chapters 1-3: On your own
• Chapter 4 - Dave Gulliver
• Chapter 5 - Chris Schnaars
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Tutorials

• Install/Config (Serdar)
• Python's Interactive Interpreter: A Sandbox for Exploring Data and Code (Serdar)
• Working with CSVs (Serdar)
• Working with Excel (Serdar)
• Working with Databases (Serdar)
• Data Wrangling 101: Scrape, Clean, Output (Serdar) -- Demonstrate how to scrape data from a multi-level , perform some basic data cleaning and processing, and then output data as CSV and/or insert into a database. Aron Pilhofer has volunteered a test site with data for scraping.