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what's the best python libraries for beginners to download and learn with?

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I’m at work in a slow moment with only my phone and pydroid, I wanted to see if there was anything I could learn and mess around with while I’m here

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yokonzo@lemmy.worldOP
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That’s assuming I want to build a project, right now I’m messing around with numpy building arrays in different dimensions and multiplying them.

I know, but this is the weird way I learn things

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ericjmorey@programming.dev
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Sounds like your project is building arrays in different dimensions and multiplying them.

Maybe give polars and pandas a try.

Definitely check out SciPy

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exu@feditown.com
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In that case, maybe get a good textbook and follow the examples.

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yokonzo@lemmy.worldOP
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My man I think you missed the part about "I’m at work”

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kakes@sh.itjust.works
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You’re in luck! The book I’ve generally heard recommended to beginners for Python is available for free online!

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MalReynolds@slrpnk.net
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Perhaps BeautifulSoup for scraping data to fill your arrays…

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ericjmorey@programming.dev
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People keep telling me that scrapy is the best for scraping but I haven’t had time to try it yet.

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megaman@discuss.tchncs.de
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I learned a lot about pandas (a library built mostly on top of numpy) by going to stackoverflow and trying to answer questions with the tag. Hopefully the questions have a minimal reproducible example and are isolated to one specific question

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