Path: csiph.com!usenet.pasdenom.info!aioe.org!news.stack.nl!newsfeed.xs4all.nl!newsfeed2.news.xs4all.nl!xs4all!post.news.xs4all.nl!not-for-mail Return-Path: X-Original-To: python-list@python.org Delivered-To: python-list@mail.python.org X-Spam-Status: OK 0.017 X-Spam-Evidence: '*H*': 0.97; '*S*': 0.00; 'third-party': 0.04; 'output': 0.05; "'python": 0.09; '22,': 0.09; 'wrapper': 0.09; 'cc:addr:python-list': 0.11; 'python': 0.11; 'gui': 0.12; 'windows': 0.15; 'dangerous,': 0.16; 'expecting': 0.16; 'from:addr:rosuav': 0.16; 'from:name:chris angelico': 0.16; 'software;': 0.16; 'wrote:': 0.18; 'command': 0.22; 'cc:addr:python.org': 0.22; 'install': 0.23; 'keyboard': 0.24; 'new,': 0.24; 'mon,': 0.24; 'cc:2**0': 0.24; 'login': 0.25; 'header:In-Reply-To:1': 0.27; 'dec': 0.30; 'message- id:@mail.gmail.com': 0.30; 'requests': 0.31; 'probably': 0.32; 'stuff': 0.32; "we're": 0.32; 'run': 0.32; 'screen': 0.34; 'problem': 0.35; "can't": 0.35; 'something': 0.35; 'received:google.com': 0.35; 'pm,': 0.38; 'commands': 0.60; 'simple': 0.61; "you're": 0.61; 'pick': 0.64; 'fact,': 0.69; 'computers': 0.72; '(network': 0.84; '1990s.': 0.84; 'commands.': 0.84; 'costly': 0.84; 'subject:very': 0.91; 'to:none': 0.92; 'dream': 0.95 DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20120113; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:cc :content-type; bh=DRaYiimsroOj11LGBKvr0hihTUQwt/JE6ISFvOG3bbU=; b=tMHQSuMOFx2nksTUg//UxRIYMXIzdtjjKliM4MLMnfUqSwwtytdHsAGQtVICheeuLp 1Diiid1uLkv9fy464PPahF5GL85rjorOdtp6P8jMPDJmirLMtv22RDxnuT5mg5ixfCS7 YY7Qh3IX5WxuFzGWfekM28WmJMNbfuo2qsw0cttttxDAKANqTRdHBVRGAvgq4vuFs4LR XDJLBcSjTkCS4Jm4p2pD6lZFl+w9RJo64OQ9nbNQwFh4GH4pJSeLvH80mMwY2uJTWxrR aXT2E0TFQnSi/kbDIznDKJsihFI3aqTq6yXA94PmoDPkIPKP/JR87mhXJ82DWEDH7b+v xo8Q== MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Received: by 10.50.62.104 with SMTP id x8mr14022097igr.2.1419210956166; Sun, 21 Dec 2014 17:15:56 -0800 (PST) In-Reply-To: References: <7a83719d-f39c-49ad-8df5-3d3d19c127b1@googlegroups.com> Date: Mon, 22 Dec 2014 12:15:56 +1100 Subject: Re: very weird pandas behavior From: Chris Angelico Cc: "python-list@python.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 X-BeenThere: python-list@python.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.15 Precedence: list List-Id: General discussion list for the Python programming language List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Newsgroups: comp.lang.python Message-ID: Lines: 22 NNTP-Posting-Host: 2001:888:2000:d::a6 X-Trace: 1419210964 news.xs4all.nl 2829 [2001:888:2000:d::a6]:41918 X-Complaints-To: abuse@xs4all.nl Xref: csiph.com comp.lang.python:82734 On Mon, Dec 22, 2014 at 12:01 PM, ryguy7272 wrote: > Part of the problem is, I don't know why in 2014 we're entering commands in the C-prompt to run a Windows program. I thought all of that stuff was over in the very early 1990s. Also, I can't understand why Python can't download this from the Internet. > You're expecting a GUI to let you pick stuff to install? That probably exists... as a wrapper around the terminal commands. The command line has never died, and never will. (I dream of futuristic voice-activated spaceship computers that respond to "Computer! Console." by revealing a keyboard and screen with a login prompt.) Python can download this from the internet; in fact, that's exactly what the "pip install numpy" command does. However, you have to be explicit. You don't want the simple "import numpy" command to go and install some third-party software; that would mean that mistyping it as "import numpt" would also attempt to install something new, and immediately run it. That's dangerous, costly (network requests can take a long time), and definitely not a good idea. What happened when you ran the 'pip install' lines? Also, what is the output of 'pip --version' and 'python --version'? ChrisA