setup.py

[ivanistheone]

sudo python setup.py -v build # fails on Mac OS 10.6 or something

can't convert the .pyx files to .c
hard linking pandas/src/skiplist.pyx -> pandas-0.4.0.dev20110715_027c90b/pandas/src
'pandas/src/sparse.c' not a regular file -- skipping
hard linking pandas/src/sparse.pyx -> pandas-0.4.0.dev20110715_027c90b/pandas/src
'pandas/src/tseries.c' not a regular file -- skipping

changing the setup.py as follows:
@line10

• from setuptools import setup
• from scipy_distutils.core import setup

makes it work.

thx Pearu: http://osdir.com/ml/python.f2py.user/2003-11/msg00008.html

[wesm]

hey ivan can you try with the latest git HEAD? I switched to remove setuptools from the equation, I think it's messing some things up

[ivanistheone]

hey ivan can you try with the latest git HEAD?
I switched to remove setuptools from the equation,
I think it's messing some things up

It builds fine now.

I am new to R.
I searched for 30 mins to find the "select these columns only"
functionality on the DataFrame object...

ly = pandas.read_csv( 'emails_yahoo_ab.csv'), na_values=range(0,55),
index_col=None )
ly.reindex(columns=["First", "Last", "Email","Home", "Work"] ) ???
...
prints what I want
...
could getitem be overloaded to take lists?
ly.getitem[ ["First","Last"] ] ??

Very nice stuff...

ivan

[wesm]

it's not in the docs but there's now a special indexer attribute which does what you want:

ly.ix[:, ['First', 'Last']]

note you never have to type getitem in practice, it's just [...], so

ly.getitem('First') is the same as ly['First']

closing the issue =)