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what's the best python libraries for beginners to download and learn with? (lemmy.world)

submitted 5 months ago by yokonzo@lemmy.world to c/programming@programming.dev

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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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[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 20 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Entirely depends on the project you want to build

[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world 4 points 5 months ago* (last edited 5 months ago) (4 children)

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

[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 8 points 5 months ago

Sounds like your project is building arrays in different dimensions and multiplying them.

Maybe give polars and pandas a try.

Definitely check out SciPy

[–] exu@feditown.com 7 points 5 months ago (1 children)

In that case, maybe get a good textbook and follow the examples.

[–] yokonzo@lemmy.world -1 points 5 months ago (1 children)

My man I think you missed the part about "I'm at work”

[–] kakes@sh.itjust.works 7 points 5 months ago

You're in luck! The book I've generally heard recommended to beginners for Python is available for free online!

[–] MalReynolds@slrpnk.net 5 points 5 months ago (1 children)

Perhaps BeautifulSoup for scraping data to fill your arrays...

[–] ericjmorey@programming.dev 1 points 5 months ago

People keep telling me that scrapy is the best for scraping but I haven't had time to try it yet.

[–] megaman@discuss.tchncs.de 4 points 5 months ago

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