On Wed, Sep 2, 2020 at 11:43 AM Steve <Gronicus@sga.ninja> wrote: > > >> Requires numpy, dateutil, pytz, setuptools, and optionally numexpr, > >> bottleneck, scipy, matplotlib, pytables, lxml, xarray, blosc, snappy, > >> brotlipy, backports.lzma, statsmodels, sqlalchemy, psycopg2, and whatnot. > > >It means you need all those things installed before you can install Pandas. > > If that is the case, then it is just not worth it. However, I am seeing it > more as a poorly constructed sentence. > > How about: > > >> Requires numpy, dateutil, pytz, setuptools , > and optionally: > numexpr, bottleneck, scipy, matplotlib, pytables, lxml, xarray, blosc, > snappy, brotlipy, backports.lzma, statsmodels, sqlalchemy, psycopg2, and > whatnot. > > Does it suggest that the first four are required and the rest are optional? > Even then, it is still ambiguous. >
I believe you are correct, but I usually let pip do all the work. (But I don't use Windows.) ChrisA -- https://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list