Difference between revisions of "Python"

Revision as of 16:55, 15 January 2013

documentation

• Official website
• Dive into Python
• euroscipy (scientific python community)
• Getting started with scipy
• Python comme langage scientifique
• Python et le C

Libraries and softwares

• iPython
• the iPython notebook (interface similar to Mathematica) use HTML to handle worksheets.
• Standard Library
• SciPy - NumPy
• Matplotlib
• SymPy
• Cython
• PyTables
• Modular toolkit for Data Processing

Miscellaneous

• Fernando Perez page on Python
• Interfacing C++ and Python
• Fitting data with python
• 3D Scientific Data Visualization and Plotting
• Quick integration of a known function

Tips

• equivalent of the C ternary operator ?: (bool ? restrue : 'resfalse), use a tuple

(resfalse,restrue)[bool]

• adding a path to a directory containing your module files

import sys
sys.path += [ "/home/username/bin/Python" ]

• test whether a string has only digits or letters

str = '1321'
str.isdigit() # returns True/False
str.isalpha() # returns True/False

• Nested for loops in a single line:

for n,m in [ (n,m) for n in range(10) for m in range(2) ]:
    print n,m