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9. 

Click Finish.

You’re ready to begin using Anaconda.

FIGURE 3-3: 

Specify an 

installation 

location.

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FIGURE 3-4: 

Configure the 

advanced 

installation 

options.

A WORD ABOUT THE SCREENSHOTS

As you work your way through the book, you use an IDE of your choice to open the 

Python and Jupyter Notebook files containing the book’s source code. Every screenshot 

that contains IDE-specific information relies on Anaconda because Anaconda runs on all 

three platforms supported by the book. The use of Anaconda doesn’t imply that it’s the 

best IDE or that the authors are making any sort of recommendation for it; Anaconda 

simply works well as a demonstration product.

When you work with Anaconda, the name of the graphical (GUI) environment, Jupyter 

Notebook, is precisely the same across all three platforms, and you won’t even see any 

significant difference in the presentation. (Jupyter Notebook is an evolution of IPython, 

so you may see online resources refer to IPython Notebook.) The differences that you 

do see are minor, and you should ignore them as you work through the book. With this 

in mind, the book does rely heavily on Windows 7 screenshots. When working on a 

Linux, Mac OS X, or other Windows version platform, you should expect to see some 

 differences in presentation, but these differences shouldn’t reduce your ability to work 

with the examples.

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