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Dependencies
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* `NumPy <http://www.numpy.org>`__: 1.6.1 or higher
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* `python-dateutil <http://labix.org/python-dateutil>`__ 1.5 or higher
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* `pytz <http://pytz.sourceforge.net/>`__
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* Needed for time zone support with ``date_range``
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- `NumPy <http://www.numpy.org>`__: 1.6.1 or higher
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- `python-dateutil <http://labix.org/python-dateutil>`__ 1.5 or higher
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- `pytz <http://pytz.sourceforge.net/>`__
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- Needed for time zone support with ``date_range``
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Highly Recommended Dependencies
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* `numexpr <http://code.google.com/p/numexpr/>`__: to accelerate some expression evaluation operations
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also required by `PyTables`
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* `bottleneck <http://berkeleyanalytics.com/bottleneck>`__: to accelerate certain numerical operations
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- `numexpr <http://code.google.com/p/numexpr/>`__
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- Needed to accelerate some expression evaluation operations
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- Required by `PyTables`
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- `bottleneck <http://berkeleyanalytics.com/bottleneck>`__
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- Needed to accelerate certain numerical operations
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Optional dependencies
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* `Cython <http://www.cython.org>`__: Only necessary to build development
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version. Version 0.17.1 or higher.
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* `SciPy <http://www.scipy.org>`__: miscellaneous statistical functions
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* `PyTables <http://www.pytables.org>`__: necessary for HDF5-based storage
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* `matplotlib <http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/>`__: for plotting
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* `statsmodels <http://statsmodels.sourceforge.net/>`__
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* Needed for parts of :mod:`pandas.stats`
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* `openpyxl <http://packages.python.org/openpyxl/>`__, `xlrd/xlwt <http://www.python-excel.org/>`__
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* openpyxl version 1.6.1 or higher, for writing .xlsx files
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* xlrd >= 0.9.0
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* Needed for Excel I/O
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* `lxml <http://lxml.de>`__, or `Beautiful Soup 4 <http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup>`__: for reading HTML tables
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* The differences between lxml and Beautiful Soup 4 are mostly speed (lxml
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- `Cython <http://www.cython.org>`__: Only necessary to build development version. Version 0.17.1 or higher.
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- `SciPy <http://www.scipy.org>`__: miscellaneous statistical functions
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- `PyTables <http://www.pytables.org>`__: necessary for HDF5-based storage
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- `matplotlib <http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/>`__: for plotting
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- `statsmodels <http://statsmodels.sourceforge.net/>`__
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- Needed for parts of :mod:`pandas.stats`
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- `openpyxl <http://packages.python.org/openpyxl/>`__, `xlrd/xlwt <http://www.python-excel.org/>`__
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- openpyxl version 1.6.1 or higher, for writing .xlsx files
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- xlrd >= 0.9.0
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- Needed for Excel I/O
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- `lxml <http://lxml.de>`__, or `Beautiful Soup 4 <http://www.crummy.com/software/BeautifulSoup>`__: for reading HTML tables
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- The differences between lxml and Beautiful Soup 4 are mostly speed (lxml
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is faster), however sometimes Beautiful Soup returns what you might
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intuitively expect. Both backends are implemented, so try them both to
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see which one you like. They should return very similar results.
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* Note that lxml requires Cython to build successfully
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* `boto <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/boto>`__: necessary for Amazon S3 access.
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- Note that lxml requires Cython to build successfully
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- `boto <https://pypi.python.org/pypi/boto>`__: necessary for Amazon S3 access.
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