Prerequisite Setup for Reading Data into pandas

Understand the packages that need to be installed in order to import certain data types into pandas successfully.

The html5lib and BeautifulSoup

  • For read_html() to work correctly on HTML files, we need the html5lib and BeautifulSoup4 packages. The goal is to ensure sufficient backup methods for successful and efficient HTML parsing.

  • To utilize these two libraries, we first install them with:

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