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Advanced pandas—Going Beyond the Basics

Prerequisite Setup for Reading Data into pandas

Explore the essential setup steps and required Python packages for reading diverse data formats into pandas. Understand how to prepare your environment with tools like html5lib, SQLAlchemy, PyMySQL, and others to enable advanced data importing and handling.

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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:

Python 3.10.4
pip install html5lib 

pip install beautifulsoup4

The SQLAlchemy

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