Python

Python is a powerful and flexible programming language. It is increasingly used in scientific software packages, because it has a large number of libraries that are extremely useful in numerical and scientific computing. For instance:

• numpy: Also known as numerical python, this package allows for efficient handling of vectors, arrays, matrices, and associated computations.
• matplotlib: Plotting library that can generate graphs of datasets, including area images. Publication-quality images are possible with some effort.
• scipy: A large collection of computational tools relevant to scientific data.
• [http://www.pythonware.com/products/pil/ Python Image Library (PIL): A library that allows opening, converting, and editing image files including the TIFF files frequently output by x-ray area detectors in scattering instruments.

=Hints about Python usage

• Python:Various
• Python:Super
• Python:Indexing
• Python:FFT

Official Site

• www.python.org
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