Introduction / getting started

To install dscience and its optional packages via pip, run:

pip install dscience[all]

You can avoid installing some dependencies by installing only what you need. For example:

pip install dscience
pip install dscience[numeric]

The optional dependency sets are:

• numeric
• db
• jupyter
• test
• extra

You can import the most general-purpose parts of dscience like this:

from dscience.full import *
print(Tools)

This will load:

• Tools, containing various utility functions
• Chars, containing common Unicode characters
• abcd, containing decorators
• ~10 miscellaneous classes, such as SmartEnum
• a collection of exceptions such as MultipleMatchesError and DataWarning
• numpy as np and pandas as pd