Pandas for Everyone: Python Data Analysis, 2nd Edition

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Using Python

There are many different ways to use Python. The “simplest” way is to use a text editor and terminal. However, projects like IPython and Jupyter have enhanced Python’s REPL (Read–Evaluate–Print–Loop) interface, making it one of the standard interfaces in the data analytics and scientific Python communities.

E.1 Command Line and Text Editor

To use Python from the command line and text editor, you need is a plain text editor and a terminal. Although any plain text editor would work, a “good” one would have a Python feature that will do syntax highlighting and auto-completion. These days VSCode has become a popular text editor that has good extensions for Python support: https://code.visualstudio.com/

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