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Code words in text are shown as follows: "And already installed packages can be updated via the --upgrade flag."

A block of code is set as follows:

>>> import matplotlib.pyplot as plt
>>> import numpy as np
>>> y = df.iloc[0:100, 4].values
>>> y = np.where(y == 'Iris-setosa', -1, 1)
>>> X = df.iloc[0:100, [0, 2]].values
>>> plt.scatter(X[:50, 0], X[:50, 1],
...             color='red', marker='x', label='setosa')
>>> plt.scatter(X[50:100, 0], X[50:100, 1],
...             color='blue', marker='o', label='versicolor')
>>> plt.xlabel('sepal length')
>>> plt.ylabel('petal length')
>>> plt.legend(loc='upper left')
>>> plt.show()

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

> dot -Tpng tree.dot -o tree.png

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