You can check download statistics of Python Packages on PYPI at https://pypistats.org/. This is especially helpful if you want to choose from multiple packages.
Virtual environment + pip is the preferred way to install Python packages.
pip should be already available …
There are a few ways to install Python in Mac.
Install system-wide via the official Python installation package.
Install locally using Homebrew (recommended).
You should avoid installing multiple versions of Python in your system. It usually brings more troubles than conveniences. Python virtual environemnts ( via uv ) and Docker containers are …
It is suggested that you avoid using Excel files (or other spreadsheet tools) for storing data. Parquet file is currently the best format for storing table-like data. If you do want to interact and manipulate your data using Excel (or other spreadsheet tools), dump your data into CSV files and …
Xoshiro is a family of fast, space-efficient and high quality PRNGs. It is considered the state-of-the-art (SOTA) family of non-cryptographic pseudo random number generators (PRNGs). The Rust crate rand_xoshiro (which is part of the popular Rust crate rand) has implementations of Xoshiro256Plus and Xoshiro256PlusPlus . Xoshiro256PlusPlus is a very good …
Use IPython as much as possible.
If you do want to use a Unix/Linux shell, I'd suggest you stick to Bash unless Linux distributions start …