Advanced pandas—Going Beyond the Basics/

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Prerequisite Setup for Reading Data into pandas

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.

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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:

pip install html5lib 

pip install beautifulsoup4

The SQLAlchemy

  • The SQLAlchemy package is the Python SQL toolkit and ...