Initially, we'll be using Python interactively. This means to just run <code>python</code> at the command prompt, and enter commands into the window. Later we'll move onto writing a simple script which executes these commands.
Note if you want to use matplotlib, and are running a native Python installation, you may need to install that package. If the <code>import matplotlib</code> command listed in the next section fails, you'll need to install these, which again for Windows you can get from the [http://www.lfd.uci.edu/~gohlke/pythonlibs/#pyparsing Pre-Built Windows Binaries].
<blockquote>matplotlib python-dateutil pyparsing six
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== Exploring the Trace Data ==