[Tutor] substituting for time_series, Pandas, Anaconda. Practical Programming, intro Comp Sci, Gries text

[Albert-Jan Roskam]

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> From: Jim Byrnes <jf_byrnes at comcast.net>
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> On 05/14/2014 02:08 PM, Charles Agriesti wrote:
>>  Practical programming, 2nd Edition, Paul Gries, Jennifer Campbell, Jason
>>  Montojo
>>  (Python 3)
>> 
>>  P 184, the last half of chapter 10 requires the time_series module,
>>  which is no longer available, apparently replaced by Pandas.
> 
> Read the first paragraph on page 185. The two def's on page 184 are 
> saved in a file called time_series.py, this is what is being imported. 
> Of course the paragraph gets confusing when it talks about importing 
> tsdl.  If I remember right once the time_series file was in the current 
> directory the examples then worked.

pandas = PANel DAta analysis (not sure about the S). So time series, orignally. CRAN R on steroids.