| dc.description.abstract | The first edition of this book was published in 2012, during a time when open source
data analysis libraries for Python, especially pandas, were very new and developing
rapidly. When the time came to write the second edition in 2016 and 2017, I needed
to update the book not only for Python 3.6 (the first edition used Python 2.7) but also
for the many changes in pandas that had occurred over the previous five years. Now
in 2022, there are fewer Python language changes (we are now at Python 3.10, with
3.11 coming out at the end of 2022), but pandas has continued to | vi |
