Python_resources.md

Useful Python Links

Core Python

• Main Python Docs

  • http://docs.python.org/

• Global Module Index

  • Built in modules like os, sys, datetime, math, random...
  • http://docs.python.org/modindex.html

• Built-in Functions

  • Built-in, always available functions like open, range, enumerate,

zip...

• http://docs.python.org/library/functions.html

• String Formatting

  • http://docs.python.org/library/string.html#formatstrings

Python in Science

• NumPy

  • Fast arrays, used by almost every scientific Python package

• SciPy

  • Minimization, fitting, solvers, statistics, and more

• matplotlib

  • 2D and 3D plotting, maps

• AstroPy for astronomy

• Biopython for bioinformatics

• Sage for mathematic analysis

• SymPy for symbolic mathematics

• pandas data analysis and stats for categorical and time series data