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#List unique values in a DataFrame column
pd.unique(df.column_name.ravel())

#Convert Series datatype to numeric, getting rid of any non-numeric values
df['col'] = df['col'].astype(str).convert_objects(convert_numeric=True)

#Grab DataFrame rows where column has certain values
valuelist = ['value1', 'value2', 'value3']
df = df[df.column.isin(value_list)]

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if you are using linux, unix, os x:

pip install -U setuptools
pip install -U pip

pip install numpy
pip install scipy
pip install matplotlib
#pip install PySide