ipython notebook dependenciestornado and pyzmq these are included in epdfree pandas (version or higherat some point while reading you may wish to install one or more of the following packagesstatsmodelspytablespyqt (or equivalentlypyside)xlrdlxmlbasemappymongoand requests these are used in various examples installing these optional libraries is not necessaryand would would suggest waiting until you need them for exampleinstalling pyqt or pytables from source on os or linux can be rather arduous for nowit' most important to get up and running with the bare minimumepdfree and pandas for information on each python package and links to binary installers or other helpsee the python package index (pypiresource for finding new python packages to avoid confusion and to keep things simplei am avoiding discussion of more complex environment management tools like pip and virtualenv there are many excellent guides available for these tools on the internet some users may be interested in alternate python implementationssuch as ironpythonjythonor pypy to make use of the tools presented in this bookit is (currentlynecessary to use the standard -based python interpreterknown as cpython windows to get started on windowsdownload the epdfree installer from thought comwhich should be an msi installer named like epd_free--winx msi run the installer and accept the default installation location :\python if you had previously installed python in this locationyou may want to delete it manually first (or using add/remove programsnextyou need to verify that python has been successfully added to the system path and that there are no conflicts with any prior-installed python versions firstopen command prompt by going to the start menu and starting the command prompt applicationalso known as cmd exe try starting the python interpreter by typing python you should see message that matches the version of epdfree you installedc:\users\wes>python python |epd_free ( -bit)(defaultapr : : on win type "credits""demoor "enthoughtfor more information installation and setup www it-ebooks info