update packages.ipynb

Author: William Glass

content/good_practice/packages.ipynb

@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@
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     "Installing Python packages is very simple and one of the most popular package managers to achieve this is `pip`. Here, `pip` accesses the [Python Package Index](https://pypi.org/) (`PyPI`) that contains a large number of Python packages.\n",
     "\n",
-    "For our example we need the `NumPy` package and this can be installed via the following command in our terminal:\n",
+    "For our example we need the `NumPy` package and this can be installed via the following command at the terminal/anaconda prompt (see [here](https://pythoninchemistry.org/import-anything) for more information about different operating systems):\n",
     "\n",
     "```bash\n",
     "pip install numpy\n",
@@ -99,7 +99,7 @@
     "cosine_angle = cos(angle)\n",
     "```\n",
     "\n",
-    "However, this can sometimes have unintended consequences if these functions share the same name with variables in a longer script. This problem can also arise using `from numpy import *`, which imports all functions without the need to use the `numpy.` syntax. To get around this it is common (and recommended) to `import` packages and rename them:\n",
+    "However, this can sometimes have unintended consequences if these functions share the same name with variables in a longer script. This problem can also arise using `from numpy import *`, which imports all functions without the need to use the `numpy.` syntax. To get around this it is common to `import` packages and rename them:\n",
     "\n",
     "```python\n",
     "##  Import the specific functions from numpy\n",
@@ -110,23 +110,15 @@
     "cosine_angle = np.cos(angle)\n",
     "```\n",
     "\n",
-    "Although our example has used the `numpy` package, there are a large number of packages to choose from and each have a customary name that is often used. These include `matplotlib`, `pandas`, and `scipy`:\n",
+    "Although our example has used the `numpy` package, there are a large number of packages to choose from and each have a customary name that is often used. For example:\n",
     "\n",
     "```python\n",
     "import matplotlib as mpl \n",
     "import matplotlib.pyplot as plt \n",
     "import numpy as np\n",
     "import pandas as pd\n",
-    "import scipy as sp\n",
     "``` "
    ]
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