.. _basics:

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 Essential Basic Functionality
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Here we discuss a lot of the essential functionality common to the pandas data
structures. Here's how to create some of the objects used in the examples from
the previous section:

>>> import pandas as pd
>>> index = pd.date_range('1/1/2000', periods=8)
>>> s = pd.Series(np.random.randn(5), index=['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'])
>>> df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(8, 3), index=index,
>>>                   columns=['A', 'B', 'C'])
>>> wp = pd.Panel(np.random.randn(2, 5, 4), items=['Item1', 'Item2'],
>>>               major_axis=pd.date_range('1/1/2000', periods=5),
>>>               minor_axis=['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'])


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.. ipython:: python
  :suppress:

  import pandas as pd
  index = pd.date_range('1/1/2000', periods=8)
  df = pd.DataFrame(np.random.randn(8, 3), index=index,
                    columns=['A', 'B', 'C'])
  s = pd.Series(np.random.randn(5), index=['a', 'b', 'c', 'd', 'e'])
  wp = pd.Panel(np.random.randn(2, 5, 4), items=['Item1', 'Item2'],
                major_axis=pd.date_range('1/1/2000', periods=5),
                minor_axis=['A', 'B', 'C', 'D'])

.. ipython:: python

   index
   df
   s
   wp