Mastering Tableau 2019.1 - Second Edition

Integrating Python

In order to integrate Python and Tableau, some additional steps are needed:

1. Go to Tableau's GitHub Page, clone TabPy (https://github.com/tableau/TabPy), and save it to a location on your computer:

2. Unzip the file and save it locally.
3. Open your command line and move to the location where you just stored the TabPy-master.
4. Execute the following command for macOS or Windows:

./startup.sh

5. Execute the following command for Windows:

startup.cmd

6. You should now see that TabPy has been initialized:

7. Open Tableau, select ...