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Mastering Python Scientific Computing

You're reading from   Mastering Python Scientific Computing A complete guide for Python programmers to master scientific computing using Python APIs and tools

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Product type Paperback
Published in Sep 2015
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ISBN-13 9781783288823
Length 300 pages
Edition 1st Edition
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Hemant Kumar Mehta Hemant Kumar Mehta
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Preface 1. The Landscape of Scientific Computing – and Why Python? FREE CHAPTER 2. A Deeper Dive into Scientific Workflows and the Ingredients of Scientific Computing Recipes 3. Efficiently Fabricating and Managing Scientific Data 4. Scientific Computing APIs for Python 5. Performing Numerical Computing 6. Applying Python for Symbolic Computing 7. Data Analysis and Visualization 8. Parallel and Large-scale Scientific Computing 9. Revisiting Real-life Case Studies 10. Best Practices for Scientific Computing Index

The NumPy fundamental objects


The entire scientific computing functionality of NumPy and SciPy is built around two basic types of objects in NumPy. The first object is an n-dimensional array object known as ndarray, and the second object is a universal function object called ufunc. Besides these two objects, there are a number of other objects built on top of them.

The ndarray object

The ndarray object is a homogenous collection of elements that are indexed using N integers, where N is the dimension of the array. There are two important attributes of ndarray. The first is the data type of the elements of the array, called dtype, and the second is the shape of the array. The data type here can be any data type supported by Python. The shape of the arrays is an N-tuple, that is, a collection of N elements for the N-dimensional array, where each element of the tuple defines the number of elements in that dimension of the array.

The attributes of an array

Besides the shape and dtype, the other...

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