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repository:

| ``git remote add upstream https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas``

On how to fetch the latest updates from the pandas repository, follow the steps in `Syncing a Fork <https://help.github.com/articles/syncing-a-fork/>`_:
| ``git fetch upstream``
| ``git checkout master``
| ``git merge upstream/master``


3. Set up a Python environment
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which need to be compiled in order to run the development version of pandas.

.. note::
**Windows users**: to compile pandas, you need to install `Visual Studio 2017 <https://www.visualstudio.com/>`_. You need the Community edition as a minimum. Visual Studio Code does not support the required Build Tools and will not work.
Select the Python development workload and the Native development tools option.
**Windows users**: to compile pandas, you need to install `Visual Studio 2017 <https://www.visualstudio.com/>`_. You need Visual Studio Community 2017 (2.5GB download during installation) as a minimum. Visual Studio Code does not support the required Build Tools and will not work.
Select the workload "Python development" and the option "Python native development tools" on the right side.

(Users of legacy Python 2.7 should install `Microsoft Visual C++ Compiler for Python 2.7 <https://www.microsoft.com/download/details.aspx?id=44266>`_ instead).

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