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Stephina Pascho
Stephina Pascho

Reputation: 85

Do I need to import NumPy before importing pandas or can I use pandas by itself?

I know pandas is built on NumPy, and my class examples also always include import NumPy first. I'm just not sure if this is a required step or a "just in case" type situation.

Upvotes: 3

Views: 6399

Answers (1)

user545424
user545424

Reputation: 16189

It's not necessary to import numpy before importing pandas. For example:

In [1]: import pandas as pd

In [2]: s = pd.Series(range(10))

In [3]: s
Out[3]: 
0    0
1    1
2    2
3    3
4    4
5    5
6    6
7    7
8    8
9    9
dtype: int64

The reason that it is often imported along with pandas is that you often will create an array using numpy which is then passed to pandas.

Upvotes: 5

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