Installation and setup in SciPy - Mini Project: Build & Apply

Installation and setup

📖 Scenario: You want to use the scipy library to perform scientific computations in Python. Before you can start using it, you need to install it and check that it is ready to use.

🎯 Goal: Install the scipy library and verify the installation by importing it and printing its version.

📋 What You'll Learn

Install the scipy library using pip.

Import the scipy library in Python.

Print the version of the installed scipy library.

💡 Why This Matters

🌍 Real World

Scientists and engineers use scipy for math, science, and engineering tasks like optimization, integration, and statistics.

💼 Career

Knowing how to install and verify libraries is a basic skill for data scientists and analysts working with Python.

1

Install the scipy library

Open your command line or terminal and type pip install scipy to install the scipy library.

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# Type the pip command to install scipy in your terminal

Need a hint?

Use the pip install scipy command in your terminal or command prompt to install the library.

2

Import the scipy library

Write import scipy to import the scipy library in your Python script.

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# Your code here
import scipy

Need a hint?

Use the import keyword followed by scipy to import the library.

3

Get the scipy version

Create a variable called version and set it to scipy.__version__ to get the installed version of scipy.

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import scipy
# Your code here
version = scipy.__version__

Need a hint?

Use scipy.__version__ to get the version string of the installed library.

4

Print the scipy version

Write print(version) to display the installed scipy version.

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import scipy
version = scipy.__version__
# Your code here
print(version)

Need a hint?

Use the print() function to show the version stored in version.