Thanks guys. I just feel frustrated that I can't do something useful. I'm reading all about dictionaries, and types, and touples. Then I read about string manipulation and loops; two of my favorite things to do. Then I read about logic: -719 >= 833 False
That's great, but it's just not very useful for me. I thought I could use Python to do screen scraping. Right now, I use R to do almost all my screen scraping. I used to use Excel, but r is just light years easier to use, so I'll go with that. I thought Python may be even easier to use than R, and perhaps even more powerful too. However, since I picked up my first Python book about 3 months ago, I seem to be learning all kinds of useless things, and no practical things. When I find cool code samples online, I can't even get them to run. Last week I found a small sample of code that supposedly merges data from several text files in a folder into one single file. I played with it for a couple hours, and never got it to work. In less than 15 minutes, I could have done the merging task, using Excel, Access, VB.NET, C#.NET, or even a batch file. I guess I'll just keep reading these books. I have 10 books, and I'm most of the way throguh 4 of them. So far, none are teaching me anything that I could use in my role managing financial assets. Maybe something will click soon. I hope so. Thanks again everyone. On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 10:48 AM, Joel Goldstick <joel.goldst...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Sun, Oct 19, 2014 at 10:19 AM, Mark Lawrence <breamore...@yahoo.co.uk> > wrote: > > On 18/10/2014 21:00, ryguy7272 wrote: > >> > >> I'm trying to install Pandas. I went to this link. > >> https://pypi.python.org/pypi/pandas/0.14.1/#downloads > >> > >> I downloaded this: pandas-0.14.1.win32-py2.7.exe (md5) > >> I have Python27 installed. > >> > >> So, I run the executable and re-run my Python script and I get the same > >> error as before. > >> > >> > >> Traceback (most recent call last): > >> File "C:/Python27/stock_data.py", line 3, in <module> > >> import pandas as pd > >> ImportError: No module named pandas > >> > > What messages did you get when you run the installer? > Most people use pip to install python packages > Are you writing code and putting it in C:/Python27/ ? isn't that where > python is installed. You should write your code in some directory > under your user tree. > > > >> I thought I just installed it! Isn't that what the executable is for? > It > >> seems like 100% of my errors are with uninstalled libraries. I don't > >> understand why there are so, so, so many dependencies running Python. > Also, > >> I don't understand why something isn't installed, right after I just > >> installed it. > >> > >> Can someone please explain the logic to me? > >> > >> Thanks. > >> > > > > Have you actually run any code from the Python tutorial yet? You can do > > lots of things with Python that require no third party libraries. In > fact > > many questions here go "I need a solution to this that must be in the > > stdlib". It strikes me that you're trying to enter an Iron Man > competition > > before you can crawl. > > > > -- > > My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask > > what you can do for our language. > > > > Mark Lawrence > > > > -- > > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list > > > > -- > Joel Goldstick > http://joelgoldstick.com > -- > https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list >
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