<div>Useful banking/finance Python resources:</div><div><br></div>- <a href="https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ofxparse">https://pypi.python.org/pypi/ofxparse</a><div>- <a href="https://wrdrd.com/docs/consulting/investing#quantopian">https://wrdrd.com/docs/consulting/investing#quantopian</a><br><div>- Places that have some Python in their stack:</div><div>  - JP Morgan</div><div>  - Bank of America Merrill Lynch</div><div>  - Quantopian</div><div>   - qgrid, zipline, pyfolio, ...</div><div><br><br>On Thursday, September 15, 2016, Wes Turner <<a href="mailto:wes.turner@gmail.com">wes.turner@gmail.com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><br><br>On Tuesday, September 13, 2016, Mills, Ryan <<a href="javascript:_e(%7B%7D,'cvml','Ryan.Mills@texascapitalbank.com');" target="_blank">Ryan.Mills@texascapitalbank.<wbr>com</a>> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">





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<p class="MsoNormal">I just recently downloaded Python 3.5 and cannot seem to install any packages like Numpy, etc.  I have tried all the instructions on the website and keep getting errors:<u></u><u></u></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal">For example, when I type “python –m pip install Numpy” it returns  a Syntax Error. I am completely new to Python so I must be missing something here – I haven’t altered any files since installing it the other day. Do I use the Python IDLE
 Shell? Are there other packages I need to install first?  Any help would be greatly appreciated.  <u></u><u></u></p></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Shell commands can/could/should be clearly indicated with a '$' prefix:</div><div><br></div><div>    $ python -m pip install numpy</div><div> </div><div>Python expressions are sometimes prefixed with '>>>':</div><div><br></div><div>    >>> import numpy as np</div><div><br></div><div>TBH, as a beginner, it's probably way easier to start with Anaconda (conda packages) and pip (python packages) (because there are a number of libraries required to build numpy and then whatever else):</div><div><br></div><div>- <a href="https://docs.continuum.io/anaconda/" target="_blank">https://docs.continuum.io/<wbr>anaconda/</a></div><div>- $ conda install pip; python -m pip install</div><div>- $ which python; python -m site</div><div><br></div><div>The software carpentry lessons are a good place to start from:</div><div><br></div><div>- <a href="http://software-carpentry.org/lessons/" target="_blank">http://software-carpentry.<wbr>org/lessons/</a></div><div>  - <a href="http://swcarpentry.github.io/python-novice-inflammation/" target="_blank">http://swcarpentry.github.<wbr>io/python-novice-inflammation/</a></div><div><br></div><div>Also great resources:</div><div><br></div><div>- <a href="http://www.scipy-lectures.org" target="_blank">http://www.scipy-lectures.<wbr>org</a></div><div>- <a href="https://github.com/jrjohansson/scientific-python-lectures" target="_blank">https://github.com/<wbr>jrjohansson/scientific-python-<wbr>lectures</a> (IPython/Jupyter nb)</div><div><br></div><div>- <a href="https://westurner.org/wiki/awesome-python-testing#python" target="_blank">https://westurner.org/wiki/<wbr>awesome-python-testing#python</a></div><div>  - <a href="https://westurner.org/tools/#python" target="_blank">https://westurner.org/tools/#<wbr>python</a></div><div>  - <a href="http://learnxinyminutes.com/docs/python/" target="_blank">http://learnxinyminutes.com/<wbr>docs/python/</a></div><div>  - <a href="http://docs.python.org/2/library/unittest.html" target="_blank">http://docs.python.org/2/<wbr>library/unittest.html</a></div><div><br></div><div>  - <a href="https://westurner.org/tools/#numpy" target="_blank">https://westurner.org/tools/<wbr>#numpy</a></div><div> </div><div>- IDLE is pretty cool.</div><div>- IPython is great.</div><div><br></div><div>- Jupyter Notebook is a reverse shell.</div><div>- Spyder ($ conda install spyder)</div><div>- [commercial IDE preference]</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>- If you write tests from the start, there's less run/check/run/check manual testing and more test coverage.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div lang="EN-US" link="blue" vlink="purple"><div>
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