Running a small pandas sample in IPython
Now that Python and pandas is installed, let's write our first pandas application. We will write it in the IPython interpreter. IPython is an alternative shell for executing Python applications, and it conveniently provides numeric sequence numbers for thin input and output for example purposes. This is convenient for matching specific code examples in the book and will be used in all examples.
Note
IPython or IPython Notebooks will be the tools for all remaining examples in the book.
IPython is started using the ipython command from the shell or command line:
Michaels-MacBook-Pro:~ michaelheydt$ ipython Python 2.7.8 |Anaconda 2.1.0 (x86_64)| (default, Aug 21 2014, 15:21:46) Type "copyright", "credits" or ...
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