Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of styles of text that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles, and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text are shown as follows: "This information can be easily imported into DataFrame using the pd.read_csv() function as follows."

A block of code entered in a Python interpreter is set as follows:

import pandas as pd
df = pd.DataFrame.from_items([('column1', [1, 2, 3])])
print (df)

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

mh@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ chmod +x Anaconda-2.1.0-Linux-x86_64.sh
mh@ubuntu:~/Downloads$ ./Anaconda-2.1.0-Linux-x86_64.sh

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "The shortcuts in this book are based on the Mac OS X 10.5+ scheme."