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Re: Figuring out what dependencies are needed

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On 11/12/2013 12:44, sal@nearlocal.com wrote:
> I'm a Python beginner.  I want to use it for stats work, so I downloaded Anaconda which has several of the popular libraries already packaged for Mac OS X.
>
> Now I'd like to use the backtesting package from zipline (zipline.io), but while running the test script in iPython, I receive the following error:
>
> AssertionError                            Traceback (most recent call last)
> <ipython-input-6-f921351f78e2> in <module>()
> ----> 1 data = load_from_yahoo()
>        2 dma = DualMovingAverage()
>        3 results = dma.run(data)
>
> 1)  I assume that I'm missing some packages that aren't included in Anaconda, but how do I know which ones to upload?
>
> 2)  Often I'll just unzip a library file and put the main folder in the iPython folder, but I notice there's usually a setup.py file in the main library folder.  I've been ignoring this.  Should I be using it?
>
> Thanks
>

https://pypi.python.org/pypi/z3c.dependencychecker and probably others.

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what you can do for our language.

Mark Lawrence

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Figuring out what dependencies are needed sal@nearlocal.com - 2013-12-11 04:44 -0800
  Re: Figuring out what dependencies are needed Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2013-12-11 13:27 +0000
    Re: Figuring out what dependencies are needed Robert Kern <robert.kern@gmail.com> - 2013-12-11 13:38 +0000
    Re: Figuring out what dependencies are needed Ian Kelly <ian.g.kelly@gmail.com> - 2013-12-11 13:21 -0700
  Re: Figuring out what dependencies are needed Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2013-12-11 13:25 +0000
  Re: Figuring out what dependencies are needed alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-12-12 15:48 +1000
    Re: Figuring out what dependencies are needed sal i <sal@nearlocal.com> - 2013-12-11 22:53 -0800
      Re: Figuring out what dependencies are needed alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2013-12-17 13:30 +1000

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