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Julia 1.0 Programming Cookbook

You're reading from   Julia 1.0 Programming Cookbook Over 100 numerical and distributed computing recipes for your daily data science work?ow

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Product type Paperback
Published in Nov 2018
Publisher Packt
ISBN-13 9781788998369
Length 460 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Przemysław Szufel Przemysław Szufel
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Bogumił Kamiński Bogumił Kamiński
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Preface 1. Installing and Setting Up Julia 2. Data Structures and Algorithms FREE CHAPTER 3. Data Engineering in Julia 4. Numerical Computing with Julia 5. Variables, Types, and Functions 6. Metaprogramming and Advanced Typing 7. Handling Analytical Data 8. Julia Workflow 9. Data Science 10. Distributed Computing 11. Other Books You May Enjoy

Calling Python from Julia


Python is a popular general-purpose programming language. From a Julia programmer's point of view, the main advantage of Python is having a large set of available libraries that can be seamlessly called and used within Julia.

In this recipe, we will use Python'sscrapypackage for parsing XML data.

Getting ready

In order to use Python from Julia, you should install and configure thePyCall.jlpackage.PyCall can be configured in one of two modes:

  • Using Python Anaconda, which is automatically installed within Julia

  • Using an external Python installation (for example, a separately installed Python Anaconda)

In this recipe, we use the second option (that is, using external Python), but we also provide comments for the built-in Julia Anaconda. Using a version of Anaconda that is separate from Julia makes it possible to use several Anaconda installations (though just one at a time) with a single Julia installation.

We assume that you have installed and configured Python Anaconda...

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