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Python for EconomistsAlex version: October you have not already done so, download the files for the exercises Introduction to Set-Up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . and Basic Data Structures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . : What Stata Calls Macros.

1.2 Syntax and Basic Data Structures Pythonese is surprisingly similar to English. In some ways, it’s even simpler than Stata { it may feel good to ditch Stata’s \&" and \j" for \and" and \or." You still need to use \==" to test for equality, so that Python knows you’re not trying to make an assignment to a variable.

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