--- a/day1/Session-2.tex Sat Oct 03 21:20:59 2009 +0530
+++ b/day1/Session-2.tex Sat Oct 03 21:33:55 2009 +0530
@@ -2,7 +2,7 @@
% Tutorial slides on Python.
%
% Author: Prabhu Ramachandran <prabhu at aero.iitb.ac.in>
-% Copyright (c) 2005-2008, Prabhu Ramachandran
+% Copyright (c) 2005-2009, Prabhu Ramachandran
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\documentclass[14pt,compress]{beamer}
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@
\usepackage{listings}
\lstset{language=Python,
- basicstyle=\ttfamily,
+ basicstyle=\ttfamily\bfseries,
commentstyle=\color{red}\itshape,
stringstyle=\color{darkgreen},
showstringspaces=false,
@@ -78,7 +78,7 @@
\author[Asokan \& Prabhu] {Asokan Pichai\\Prabhu Ramachandran}
\institute[IIT Bombay] {Department of Aerospace Engineering\\IIT Bombay}
-\date[] {25, July 2009}
+\date[] {10, October 2009}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
%\pgfdeclareimage[height=0.75cm]{iitmlogo}{iitmlogo}
@@ -109,511 +109,10 @@
\begin{frame}
\titlepage
\end{frame}
-\begin{frame}
- {Acknowledgements}
- \begin{center}
- This program is conducted by\\
- IIT, Bombay\\
- through CDEEP\\as part of the open source initiatives\\
- under the aegis of\\
- \alert{National Mission on Education through ICT,} \\
- Ministry of HRD.
- \end{center}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}
- \frametitle{Outline}
- \tableofcontents
- % You might wish to add the option [pausesections]
-\end{frame}
-
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-% TODO
-%
-% * Add slide on Python packages (modules)
-% * Add slides on reference counting.
-
-\section{Agenda}
-\begin{frame}{About the Workshop}
- \begin{description}
- \item[Session 1] Sat 14:00--15:55
- \item[Session 2] Sat 16:05--18:00
- \item[Session 3] Sun 14:00--15:55
- \item[Session 4] Sun 16:05--18:00
- \end{description}
-
- \begin{block}{Goal of the workshop}
- At the end of this program, successful participants will be able to use python as their scripting and problem solving language. Aimed at Engg. students--focus on basic numerics and plotting-- but should serve a similar purpose for others.
- \end{block}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}{Checklist}
- Let us verify that all of us are having the same (similar) tools and environment
- \begin{description}
- \item[python] Type python at the command line. Do you see version 2.5 or later?
- \item[IPython] Is IPython available?
- \item[Editor] Which editor? scite, vim, emacs, \ldots
- \end{description}
-\end{frame}
-
-\section{Overview}
-\begin{frame}{Session 1}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Introduction and motivation
- \item Using the interpreter(s)
- \item Basic data types: int, float, string
- \item Basic data structures: list
- \item Basic console IO: \texttt{raw\_input(), print}
- \item Basic control flow: \texttt{if, while}
- \item Problem set 1
- \item Functions $\rightarrow$ Problem set 2
- \item lists, \texttt{for} $\rightarrow$ Problem set 3
- \item IO, Modules $\rightarrow$ Problem sets 4,5, \ldots
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}
- \frametitle{Introduction}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Creator and BDFL: Guido van Rossum
- \item Conceived in December 1989
- \item ``Python'' as in Monty Python's Flying Circus
- \item Current stable version of Python is 2.6.x
- \item PSF license (like BSD: no strings attached)
- \item Highly cross platform
- \item Runs on the Nokia series 60!
- \item \alert{Philosophy:} Simple and complete by design
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}
- \frametitle{Resources}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Part of many GNU/Linux distributions
- \item Web: \url{http://www.python.org}
- \item Doc: \url{http://www.python.org/doc}
- \item Free Tutorials:
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Official Python tutorial: \url{http://docs.python.org/tut/tut.html}
- \item Byte of Python: \url{http://www.byteofpython.info/}
- \item Dive into Python: \url{http://diveintopython.org/}
- \end{itemize}
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}
- \frametitle{Why Python?}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Designed to be readable and easy to use
- \item High level, interpreted, modular, OO
- \item Much faster development cycle
- \item Powerful interactive environment
- \item Rapid application development
- \item Rich standard library and modules
- \item Interfaces well with C++, C and FORTRAN
- \item \alert{More than a math package $\Rightarrow$ some extra work compared to math packages}
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}
- \frametitle{Use cases}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item NASA: Space Shuttle Mission Design
- \item AstraZeneca: Collaborative Drug Discovery
- \item ForecastWatch.com: Helps Meteorologists
- \item Industrial Light \& Magic: Runs on Python
- \item Zope: Commercial grade Toolkit
- \item Plone: Professional high feature CMS
- \item RedHat: install scripts, sys-admin tools
- \item Django: A great web application framework
- \item Google: A strong python shop
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}
- \frametitle{To sum up, python is\ldots}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item dynamically typed, interpreted $\rightarrow$ rapid testing/prototyping
- \item powerful, very high level
- \item has full introspection
- \item Did we mention powerful?
- \end{itemize}
- \begin{block}{But \ldots}
- may be wanting in performance. specialised resources such as SWIG, \alert{Cython} are available
- \end{block}
- \inctime{15}
-\end{frame}
-
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-% TIME: 15 m, running 15m
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\section{Python}
-\subsection{Getting Started}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]{At the prompt, type the following}
- \begin{lstlisting}
->>> print 'Hello Python'
->>> print 3124 * 126789
->>> 1786 % 12
->>> 3124 * 126789
->>> a = 3124 * 126789
->>> big = 12345678901234567890 ** 3
->>> verybig = big * big * big * big
->>> 12345**6, 12345**67, 12345**678
- \end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]{At the prompt, type the following}
- \begin{lstlisting}
->>> s = 'Hello '
->>> p = 'World'
->>> s + p
->>> s * 12
->>> s * s
->>> s + p * 12, (s + p)* 12
->>> s * 12 + p * 12
->>> 12 * s
- \end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]{At the prompt, type the following}
- \begin{lstlisting}
->>> 17/2
->>> 17/2.0
->>> 17.0/2
->>> 17.0/8.5
->>> int(17/2.0)
->>> float(17/2)
->>> str(17/2.0)
->>> round( 7.5 )
- \end{lstlisting}
- \begin{block}{Mini exercise}
- Round a float to the nearest integer, using \texttt{int()}?
- \end{block}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}{Midi exercises}
- \begin{center}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item What does this do?
- \item \texttt{round(amount * 10) /10.0 }
- \end{itemize}
- \end{center}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}{More exercises?}
- \begin{center}
- \begin{block}{Round sums}
- How to round a number to the nearest 5 paise?\\
- \begin{description}
- \item[Remember] 17.23 $\rightarrow$ 17.25,\\ while 17.22 $\rightarrow$ 17.20\\
- \end{description}
- How to round a number to the nearest 20 paise?
- \end{block}
- \end{center}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile] {A question of good style}
- \begin{lstlisting}
- amount = 12.68
- denom = 0.05
- nCoins = round(amount/denom)
- rAmount = nCoins * denom
- \end{lstlisting}
- \pause
- \begin{block}{Style Rule \#1}
- Naming is 80\% of programming
- \end{block}
-\end{frame}
-
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Odds and ends}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Case sensitive
- \item Dynamically typed $\Rightarrow$ need not specify a type
- \begin{lstlisting}
-a = 1
-a = 1.1
-a = "Now I am a string!"
- \end{lstlisting}
- \item Comments:
- \begin{lstlisting}
-a = 1 # In-line comments
-# Comment in a line to itself.
-a = "# This is not a comment!"
- \end{lstlisting}
- \end{itemize}
- \inctime{15}
-\end{frame}
-
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-% TIME: 15 m, running 30m
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-
-\subsection{Data types}
-\begin{frame}
- \frametitle{Basic types}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item numbers: float, int, long, complex
- \item strings
- \item boolean
- \end{itemize}
- \begin{block}{Also to be discussed later}
- tuples, lists, dictionaries, functions, objects\ldots
- \end{block}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Numbers}
- \vspace*{-0.25in}
- \begin{lstlisting}
->>> a = 1 # Int.
->>> l = 1000000L # Long
->>> e = 1.01325e5 # float
->>> f = 3.14159 # float
->>> c = 1+1j # Complex!
->>> print f*c/a
-(3.14159+3.14159j)
->>> print c.real, c.imag
-1.0 1.0
->>> abs(c)
-1.4142135623730951
->>> abs( 8 - 9.5 )
-1.5
- \end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Boolean}
- \begin{lstlisting}
->>> t = True
->>> f = not t
-False
->>> f or t
-True
->>> f and t
-False
- \end{lstlisting}
- \begin{block}{Try:}
- NOT True\\
- not TRUE
- \end{block}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Relational and logical operators}
- \begin{lstlisting}
->>> a, b, c = -1, 0, 1
->>> a == b
-False
->>> a <= b
-True
->>> a + b != c
-True
->>> a < b < c
-True
->>> c >= a + b
-True
- \end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Strings}
- \begin{lstlisting}
-s = 'this is a string'
-s = 'This one has "quotes" inside!'
-s = "I have 'single-quotes' inside!"
-l = "A string spanning many lines\
-one more line\
-yet another"
-t = """A triple quoted string does
-not need to be escaped at the end and
-"can have nested quotes" etc."""
- \end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{More Strings}
- \vspace*{-0.2in}
- \begin{lstlisting}
->>> w = "hello"
->>> print w[0] + w[2] + w[-1]
-hlo
->>> len(w) # guess what
-5
->>> s = u'Unicode strings!'
->>> # Raw strings (note the leading 'r')
-... r_s = r'A string $\alpha \nu$'
- \end{lstlisting}
-\pause
- \begin{lstlisting}
->>> w[0] = 'H' # Can't do that!
-Traceback (most recent call last):
- File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
-TypeError: object does not support item assignment
- \end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}
- \frametitle{Let us switch to IPython}
- Why?
- \begin{block}
- {Better help (and a lot more)}
- Tab completion\\
- ?\\
- .?\\
- object.function?
- \end{block}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{More on strings}
- \begin{lstlisting}
-In [1]: a = 'hello world'
-In [2]: a.startswith('hell')
-Out[2]: True
-In [3]: a.endswith('ld')
-Out[3]: True
-In [4]: a.upper()
-Out[4]: 'HELLO WORLD'
-In [5]: a.upper().lower()
-Out[5]: 'hello world'
- \end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]{Still with strings}
- \begin{lstlisting}
-In [6]: a.split()
-Out[6]: ['hello', 'world']
-In [7]: ''.join(['a', 'b', 'c'])
-Out[7]: 'abc'
-In [8] 'd' in ''.join( 'a', 'b', 'c')
-Out[8]: False
- \end{lstlisting}
- \begin{block}{Try:}
- \texttt{a.split( 'o' )}\\
- \texttt{'x'.join( a.split( 'o' ) )}
- \end{block}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]{Surprise! strings!!}
- \begin{lstlisting}
-In [11]: x, y = 1, 1.2
-In [12]: 'x is %s, y is %s' %(x, y)
-Out[12]: 'x is 1, y is 1.234'
- \end{lstlisting}
- \begin{block}{Try:}
- \texttt{'x is \%d, y is \%f' \%(x, y) }\\
- \texttt{'x is \%3d, y is \%4.2f' \%(x, y) }
- \end{block}
- \small
-\url{docs.python.org/lib/typesseq-strings.html}\\
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}
- {Interlude}
- \begin{block}
- {A classic problem}
- How to interchange values of two variables? Please note that the type of either variable is unknown and it is not necessary that both be of the same type even!
- \end{block}
- \inctime{30}
-\end{frame}
-
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-% TIME: 25 m+ Interlude break 5 mins, running 60m
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-
-\subsection{Control flow}
-\begin{frame}
- \frametitle{Control flow constructs}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item \kwrd{if/elif/else}: branching
- \item \kwrd{while}: looping
- \item \kwrd{for}: iterating
- \item \kwrd{break, continue}: modify loop
- \item \kwrd{pass}: syntactic filler
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Basic conditional flow}
- \begin{lstlisting}
-In [21]: a = 7
-In [22]: b = 8
-In [23]: if a > b:
- ....: print 'Hello'
- ....: else:
- ....: print 'World'
- ....:
- ....:
-World
- \end{lstlisting}
- Let us switch to creating a file
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}
- {Creating python files}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item aka scripts
- \item use your editor
- \item Note that white space is the way to specify blocks!
- \item extension \typ{.py}
- \item run with \texttt{python hello.py} at the command line
- \item in IPython\ldots
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{\typ{If...elif...else} example}
-\begin{lstlisting}
-x = int(raw_input("Enter an integer:"))
-if x < 0:
- print 'Be positive!'
-elif x == 0:
- print 'Zero'
-elif x == 1:
- print 'Single'
-else:
- print 'More'
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}{Simple IO}
- \begin{block}
- {Console Input}
- \texttt{raw\_input(}) waits for user input.\\Prompt string is optional.\\
- All keystrokes are Strings!\\\texttt{int()} converts string to int.
- \end{block}
- \begin{block}
- {Console output}
- \texttt{print} is straight forward. Major point to remember is the distinction between \texttt{print x} and \texttt{print x,}
- \end{block}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Basic looping}
- \begin{lstlisting}
-# Fibonacci series:
-# the sum of two elements
-# defines the next
-a, b = 0, 1
-while b < 10:
- print b,
- a, b = b, a + b
-
-\end{lstlisting}
-\typ{1 1 2 3 5 8}\\
-\alert{Recall it is easy to write infinite loops with \kwrd{while}}
- \inctime{20}
-\end{frame}
-
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-% TIME: 20 m, running 80m
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-
+\subsection{Exercises on Control flow}
\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Problem set 1}
\begin{itemize}
@@ -630,7 +129,7 @@
\begin{frame}{Problem 1.2 - Collatz sequence}
\begin{enumerate}
\item Start with an arbitrary (positive) integer.
- \item If the number is even, divide by 2; if the number is odd multiply by 3 and add 1.
+ \item If the number is even, divide by 2; if the number is odd, multiply by 3 and add 1.
\item Repeat the procedure with the new number.
\item It appears that for all starting values there is a cycle of 4, 2, 1 at which the procedure loops.
\end{enumerate}
@@ -660,11 +159,11 @@
The number of lines must be obtained from the user as input.\\
\pause
When can your code fail?
-\only<2->{\inctime{25}}
+\only<2->{\inctime{20}}
\end{frame}
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-% TIME: 25 m, running 105m
+% TIME: 20 m, running 20m
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\subsection{Functions}
@@ -818,7 +317,7 @@
>>> a[1:3] # A slice.
[2, 3]
>>> a[1:-1]
-[2, 3, 4]
+[2, 3]
>>> a[1:] == a[1:-1]
False
\end{lstlisting}
@@ -843,7 +342,7 @@
\begin{lstlisting}
>>> a = [1, 2, 3, 4]
>>> a[:2]
-[1, 3]
+[1, 2]
>>> a[0:-1:2]
[1, 3]
\end{lstlisting}
@@ -880,7 +379,7 @@
>>> a.reverse() # in situ
>>> a
[12, 1, 'eggs', 'spam']
->>> a.append(['x', 1])
+>>> a.append(['x', 1])
>>> a
[12, 1, 'eggs', 'spam', ['x', 1]]
>>> a.extend([1,2]) # Extend the list.
@@ -914,8 +413,7 @@
>>> t[0] = 1
Traceback (most recent call last):
File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
-TypeError: object does not support item
- assignment
+TypeError: object does not support item assignment
\end{lstlisting}
\begin{itemize}
\item Multiple return values are actually a tuple.
@@ -991,1755 +489,9 @@
%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
\begin{frame}
- {Problem set 3}
- As you can guess, idea is to use \kwrd{for}!
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}{Problem 3.1}
- Which of the earlier problems is simpler when we use \kwrd{for} instead of \kwrd{while}?
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}{Problem 3.2}
- Given an empty chessboard and one Bishop placed in any square, say (r, c), generate the list of all squares the Bishop could move to.
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Problem 3.3}
-
- Given two real numbers \typ{a, b}, and an integer \typ{N}, write a
- function named \typ{linspace( a, b, N)} that returns an ordered list
- of \typ{N} points starting with \typ{a} and ending in \typ{b} and
- equally spaced.\\
-
- For example, \typ{linspace(0, 5, 11)}, should return, \\
-\begin{lstlisting}
-[ 0.0 , 0.5, 1.0 , 1.5, 2.0 , 2.5,
- 3.0 , 3.5, 4.0 , 4.5, 5.0 ]
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Problem 3.4a (optional)}
-
-Use the \typ{linspace} function and generate a list of N tuples of the form\\
-\typ{[($x_1$,f($x_1$)),($x_2$,f($x_2$)),\ldots,($x_N$,f($x_N$))]}\\for the following functions,\begin{itemize}
- \item \typ{f(x) = sin(x)}
- \item \typ{f(x) = sin(x) + sin(10*x)}.
-\end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Problem 3.4b (optional)}
-
- Using the tuples generated earlier, determine the intervals where the roots of the functions lie.
-
- \inctime{15}
-\end{frame}
-
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-% TIME: 15 m, running 185m
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-
-\subsection{IO}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Simple tokenizing and parsing}
- \begin{lstlisting}
-s = """The quick brown fox jumped
- over the lazy dog"""
-for word in s.split():
- print word.capitalize()
- \end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Problem 4.1}
- Given a string like, ``1, 3-7, 12, 15, 18-21'', produce the list \\
- \begin{lstlisting}
- [1,3,4,5,6,7,12,15,18,19,20,21]
- \end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{File handling}
-\begin{lstlisting}
->>> f = open('/path/to/file_name')
->>> data = f.read() # Read entire file.
->>> line = f.readline() # Read one line.
->>> f.close() # close the file.
-\end{lstlisting}
-Writing files
-\begin{lstlisting}
->>> f = open('/path/to/file_name', 'w')
->>> f.write('hello world\n')
->>> f.close()
-\end{lstlisting}
-\begin{itemize}
- \item Everything read or written is a string
-\end{itemize}
-\emphbar{Try \typ{file?} for more help}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{File and \kwrd{for}}
-\begin{lstlisting}
->>> f = open('/path/to/file_name')
->>> for line in f:
-... print line
-...
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}{Problem 4.2}
- The given file has lakhs of records in the form:\\
- \typ{RGN;ID;NAME;MARK1;\ldots;MARK5;TOTAL;PFW}\\
- Some entries may be empty. Read the data from this file and print the
- name of the student with the maximum total marks.
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}{Problem 4.3}
- For the same data file compute the average marks in different
- subjects, the student with the maximum mark in each subject and also
- the standard deviation of the marks. Do this efficiently.
-
- \inctime{20}
-\end{frame}
-
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-% TIME: 20 m, running 205m
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-
-\subsection{Modules}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- {Modules}
-\begin{lstlisting}
->>> sqrt(2)
-Traceback (most recent call last):
- File "<stdin>", line 1, in <module>
-NameError: name 'sqrt' is not defined
->>> import math
->>> math.sqrt(2)
-1.4142135623730951
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- {Modules}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item The \kwrd{import} keyword ``loads'' a module
- \item One can also use:
- \begin{lstlisting}
->>> from math import sqrt
->>> from math import *
- \end{lstlisting}
- \item What is the difference?
- \item \alert{Use the later only in interactive mode}
- \end{itemize}
- \emphbar{Package hierarchies}
- \begin{lstlisting}
->>> from os.path import exists
- \end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}
- \frametitle{Modules: Standard library}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Very powerful, ``Batteries included''
- \item Some standard modules:
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Math: \typ{math}, \typ{random}
- \item Internet access: \typ{urllib2}, \typ{smtplib}
- \item System, Command line arguments: \typ{sys}
- \item Operating system interface: \typ{os}
- \item Regular expressions: \typ{re}
- \item Compression: \typ{gzip}, \typ{zipfile}, and \typ{tarfile}
- \item And a whole lot more!
- \end{itemize}
- \item Check out the Python Library reference:
- \url{http://docs.python.org/library/}
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- {Modules of special interest}
- \begin{description}[matplotlibfor2d]
-
- \item[\typ{numpy}] Efficient, powerful numeric arrays
-
- \item[\typ{matplotlib}] Easy, interactive, 2D plotting
-
- \item[\typ{scipy}] statistics, optimization, integration, linear
- algebra, Fourier transforms, signal and image processing,
- genetic algorithms, ODE solvers, special functions, and more
-
- \item[Mayavi] Easy, interactive, 3D plotting
-
- \end{description}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- {Creating your own modules}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Define variables, functions and classes in a file with a
- \typ{.py} extension
- \item This file becomes a module!
- \item Accessible when in the current directory
- \item Use \typ{cd} in IPython to change directory
-
- \item Naming your module
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Modules: example}
- \begin{lstlisting}
-# --- arith.py ---
-def gcd(a, b):
- if a%b == 0: return b
- return gcd(b, a%b)
-def lcm(a, b):
- return a*b/gcd(a, b)
-# ------------------
->>> import arith
->>> arith.gcd(26, 65)
-13
->>> arith.lcm(26, 65)
-130
- \end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Problem 5.1}
-
- Put all the functions you have written so far as part of the problems
- into one module called \typ{iitb.py} and use this module from IPython.
-
-\inctime{20}
-\end{frame}
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-% TIME: 20 m, running 225m
-%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%%
-
-\begin{frame}
\frametitle{Did we meet the goal?}
\tableofcontents
% You might wish to add the option [pausesections]
- \end{frame}
-
- \begin{frame}
- {Tomorrow}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Plotting: 2D, 3D
- \item NumPy, SciPy
- \item Dictionary, Set
- \item Debugging
- \item Testing
- \item \ldots
- \end{itemize}
- 11:30--13:00 Discussion of answers to problems OPTIONAL
- \end{frame}
-\end{document}
-
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{More on functions}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Support default and keyword arguments
- \item Scope of variables in the function is local
- \item Mutable items are \alert{passed by reference}
- \item First line after definition may be a documentation string
- (\alert{recommended!})
- \item Function definition and execution defines a name bound to the
- function
- \item You \emph{can} assign a variable to a function!
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Functions: default arguments}
- \begin{lstlisting}
-def ask_ok(prompt, retries=4, complaint='Yes or no!'):
- while True:
- ok = raw_input(prompt)
- if ok in ('y', 'ye', 'yes'):
- return True
- if ok in ('n', 'no', 'nop', 'nope'):
- return False
- retries = retries - 1
- if retries < 0:
- raise IOError, 'bad user'
- print complaint
- \end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Functions: keyword arguments}
- \begin{lstlisting}
-def parrot(voltage, state='a stiff',
- action='voom', type='Norwegian Blue'):
- print "-- This parrot wouldn't", action,
- print "if you put", voltage, "Volts through it."
- print "-- Lovely plumage, the", type
- print "-- It's", state, "!"
-
-parrot(1000)
-parrot(action = 'VOOOOOM', voltage = 1000000)
-parrot('a thousand', state = 'pushing up the daisies')
-parrot('a million', 'bereft of life', 'jump')
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Functions: arbitrary argument lists}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Arbitrary number of arguments using \verb+*args+ or
- \verb+*whatever+
- \item Keyword arguments using \verb+**kw+
- \item Given a tuple/dict how do you call a function?
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Using argument unpacking
- \item For positional arguments: \verb+foo(*[5, 10])+
- \item For keyword args: \verb+foo(**{'a':5, 'b':10})+
- \end{itemize}
- \end{itemize}
-\begin{lstlisting}
-def foo(a=10, b=100):
- print a, b
-def func(*args, **keyword):
- print args, keyword
-# Unpacking:
-args = [5, 10]
-foo(*args)
-kw = {'a':5, 'b':10}
-foo(**kw)
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\subsection{Modules, exceptions, classes}
-
-\begin{frame}
- \frametitle{Modules}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Define variables, functions and classes in a file with a
- \typ{.py} extension
- \item This file becomes a module!
- \item Modules are searched in the following:
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Current directory
- \item Standard: \typ{/usr/lib/python2.3/site-packages/} etc.
- \item Directories specified in PYTHONPATH
- \item \typ{sys.path}: current path settings (from the \typ{sys}
- module)
- \end{itemize}
- \item The \typ{import} keyword ``loads'' a module
- \item One can also use:
- \mbox{\typ{from module import name1, name2, name2}}\\
- where \typ{name1} etc. are names in the module, ``module''
- \item \typ{from module import *} \ --- imports everything from module,
- \alert{use only in interactive mode}
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Modules: example}
- \begin{lstlisting}
-# --- foo.py ---
-some_var = 1
-def fib(n): # write Fibonacci series up to n
- """Print a Fibonacci series up to n."""
- a, b = 0, 1
- while b < n:
- print b,
- a, b = b, a+b
-# EOF
-
->>> import foo
->>> foo.fib(10)
-1 1 2 3 5 8
->>> foo.some_var
-1
- \end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Namespaces}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item A mapping from names to objects
- \item Modules introduce a namespace
- \item So do classes
- \item The running script's namespace is \verb+__main__+
- \item A modules namespace is identified by its name
- \item The standard functions (like \typ{len}) are in the
- \verb+__builtin__+ namespace
- \item Namespaces help organize different names and their bindings to
- different objects
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}
- \frametitle{Exceptions}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Python's way of notifying you of errors
- \item Several standard exceptions: \typ{SyntaxError}, \typ{IOError}
- etc.
- \item Users can also \typ{raise} errors
- \item Users can create their own exceptions
- \item Exceptions can be ``caught'' via \typ{try/except} blocks
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Exception: examples}
-\begin{lstlisting}
->>> 10 * (1/0)
-Traceback (most recent call last):
- File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
-ZeroDivisionError: integer division or modulo by zero
->>> 4 + spam*3
-Traceback (most recent call last):
- File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
-NameError: name 'spam' is not defined
->>> '2' + 2
-Traceback (most recent call last):
- File "<stdin>", line 1, in ?
-TypeError: cannot concatenate 'str' and 'int' objects
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Exception: examples}
-\begin{lstlisting}
->>> while True:
-... try:
-... x = int(raw_input("Enter a number: "))
-... break
-... except ValueError:
-... print "Invalid number, try again..."
-...
->>> # To raise exceptions
-... raise ValueError, "your error message"
-Traceback (most recent call last):
- File "<stdin>", line 2, in ?
-ValueError: your error message
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Classes: the big picture}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Lets you create new data types
- \item Class is a template for an object belonging to that class
- \item Note: in Python a class is also an object
- \item Instantiating a class creates an instance (an object)
- \item An instance encapsulates the state (data) and behavior
- (methods)
- \item Allows you to define an inheritance hierarchy
- \begin{itemize}
- \item ``A Honda car \alert{is a} car.''
- \item ``A car \alert{is an} automobile.''
- \item ``A Python \alert{is a} reptile.''
- \end{itemize}
- \item Programmers need to think OO
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Classes: what's the big deal?}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Lets you create objects that mimic a real problem being
- simulated
- \item Makes problem solving more natural and elegant
- \item Easier to create code
- \item Allows for code-reuse
- \item Polymorphism
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Class definition and instantiation}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Class definitions when executed create class objects
- \item Instantiating the class object creates an instance of the
- class
- \end{itemize}
-\footnotesize
-\begin{lstlisting}
-class Foo(object):
- pass
-# class object created.
-# Create an instance of Foo.
-f = Foo()
-# Can assign an attribute to the instance
-f.a = 100
-print f.a
-100
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Classes \ldots}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item All attributes are accessed via the \typ{object.attribute}
- syntax
- \item Both class and instance attributes are supported
- \item \emph{Methods} represent the behavior of an object: crudely
- think of them as functions ``belonging'' to the object
- \item All methods in Python are ``virtual''
- \item Inheritance through subclassing
- \item Multiple inheritance is supported
- \item No special public and private attributes: only good
- conventions
- \begin{itemize}
- \item \verb+object.public()+: public
- \item \verb+object._private()+ \& \verb+object.__priv()+:
- non-public
- \end{itemize}
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Classes: examples}
-\begin{lstlisting}
-class MyClass(object):
- """Example class (this is the class docstring)."""
- i = 12345 # A class attribute
- def f(self):
- """This is the method docstring"""
- return 'hello world'
-
->>> a = MyClass() # creates an instance
->>> a.f()
-'hello world'
->>> # a.f() is equivalent to MyClass.f(a)
-... # This also explains why f has a 'self' argument.
-... MyClass.f(a)
-'hello world'
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Classes (continued)}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item \typ{self} is \alert{conventionally} the first argument for a
- method
- \item In previous example, \typ{a.f} is a method object
- \item When \typ{a.f} is called, it is passed the instance \typ{a} as
- the first argument
- \item If a method called \verb+__init__+ exists, it is called when
- the object is created
- \item If a method called \verb+__del__+ exists, it is called before
- the object is garbage collected
- \item Instance attributes are set by simply ``setting'' them in
- \typ{self}
- \item Other special methods (by convention) like \verb+__add__+ let
- you define numeric types:
- {\footnotesize \url{http://docs.python.org/ref/specialnames.html}
- \\ \url{http://docs.python.org/ref/numeric-types.html}
- }
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Classes: examples}
-\begin{lstlisting}
-class Bag(MyClass): # Shows how to derive classes
- def __init__(self): # called on object creation.
- self.data = [] # an instance attribute
- def add(self, x):
- self.data.append(x)
- def addtwice(self, x):
- self.add(x)
- self.add(x)
->>> a = Bag()
->>> a.f() # Inherited method
-'hello world'
->>> a.add(1); a.addtwice(2)
->>> a.data
-[1, 2, 2]
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Derived classes}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Call the parent's \verb+__init__+ if needed
- \item If you don't need a new constructor, no need to define it in subclass
- \item Can also use the \verb+super+ built-in function
- \end{itemize}
-\begin{lstlisting}
-class AnotherBag(Bag):
- def __init__(self):
- # Must call parent's __init__ explicitly
- Bag.__init__(self)
- # Alternatively use this:
- super(AnotherBag, self).__init__()
- # Now setup any more data.
- self.more_data = []
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Classes: polymorphism}
-\begin{lstlisting}
-class Drawable(object):
- def draw(self):
- # Just a specification.
- pass
-\end{lstlisting}
-\mode<presentation>{\pause}
-\begin{lstlisting}
-class Square(Drawable):
- def draw(self):
- # draw a square.
-class Circle(Drawable):
- def draw(self):
- # draw a circle.
-\end{lstlisting}
-\mode<presentation>{\pause}
-\begin{lstlisting}
-class Artist(Drawable):
- def draw(self):
- for obj in self.drawables:
- obj.draw()
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\subsection{Miscellaneous}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Stand-alone scripts}
-Consider a file \typ{f.py}:
-\begin{lstlisting}
-#!/usr/bin/env python
-"""Module level documentation."""
-# First line tells the shell that it should use Python
-# to interpret the code in the file.
-def f():
- print "f"
-
-# Check if we are running standalone or as module.
-# When imported, __name__ will not be '__main__'
-if __name__ == '__main__':
- # This is not executed when f.py is imported.
- f()
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{List comprehensions}
-\begin{lstlisting}
->>> veg = ['tomato', 'cabbage', 'carrot', 'potato']
->>> [x.upper() for x in veg]
-['TOMATO', 'CABBAGE', 'CARROT', 'POTATO']
->>> vec = range(0, 8)
->>> even = [x for x in vec if x%2 == 0]
->>> even
-[0, 2, 4, 6]
->>> [x*x for x in even]
-[0, 4, 16, 36]
->>> odd = [x for x in vec if x%2 == 1]
->>> odd
-[1, 3, 5, 7]
->>> [x*y for x in even for y in odd]
-[0, 0, 0, 0, 2, 6, 10, 14, 4, 12, 20, 28, 6, 18,30,42]
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{More IPython features}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Input and output caching:
- \begin{itemize}
- \item \verb+In+: a list of all entered input
- \item \verb+Out+: a dict of all output
- \item \verb+_+, \verb+__+, \verb+__+ are the last three results as
- is \verb+_N+
- \item \verb+%hist [-n]+ macro shows previous history, \verb+-n+
- suppresses line number information
- \end{itemize}
- \item Log the session using \verb+%logstart+, \verb+%logon+ and
- \verb+%logoff+
- \item \verb+%run [options] file[.py]+ -- running Python code
- \begin{itemize}
- \item \verb+%run -d [-b<N>]+: debug script with pdb
- \verb+N+ is the line number to break at (defaults to 1)
- \item \verb+%run -t+: time the script
- \item \verb+%run -p+: Profile the script
- \end{itemize}
- \item \verb+%prun+ runs a statement/expression under the profiler
- \item \verb+%macro [options] macro_name n1-n2 n3-n4 n6+ save specified
- lines to a macro with name \verb+macro_name+
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{More IPython features \ldots}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item \verb+%edit [options] [args]+: edit lines of code or file
- specified in editor (configure editor via \verb+$EDITOR+)
- \item \verb+%cd+ changes directory, see also \verb+%pushd, %popd, %dhist+
- \item Shell access
- \begin{itemize}
- \item \verb+!command+ runs a shell command and returns its output
- \item \verb+files = %sx ls+ or \verb+files = !ls+ sets
- \verb+files+ to all result of the \verb+ls+ command
- \item \verb+%sx+ is quiet
- \item \verb+!ls $files+ passes the \verb+files+ variable to the
- shell command
- \item \verb+%alias alias_name cmd+ creates an alias for a system
- command
- \end{itemize}
- \item \verb+%colors+ lets you change the color scheme to
- \verb+NoColor, Linux, LightBG+
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{More IPython features \ldots}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Use \verb+;+ at the end of a statement to suppress printing
- output
- \item \verb+%bookmark+: store a bookmarked location, for use with \verb+%cd+
- \item \verb+%who, %whos+: print information on variables
- \item \verb+%save [options] filename n1-n2 n3-n4+: save lines to a
- file
- \item \verb+%time statement+: Time execution of a Python statement or
- expression
- \item \verb+%timeit [-n<N> -r<R> [-t|-c]] statement+: time execution
- using Python's timeit module
- \item Can define and use profiles to setup IPython differently:
- \verb+math, scipy, numeric, pysh+ etc.
- \item \verb+%magic+: \alert{Show help on all magics}
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{File handling}
-\begin{lstlisting}
->>> # Reading files:
-... f = open('/path/to/file_name')
->>> data = f.read() # Read entire file.
->>> line = f.readline() # Read one line.
->>> # Read entire file appending each line into a list
-... lines = f.readlines()
->>> f.close() # close the file.
->>> # Writing files:
-... f = open('/path/to/file_name', 'w')
->>> f.write('hello world\n')
-\end{lstlisting}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item \typ{tell()}: returns int of current position
- \item \typ{seek(pos)}: moves current position to specified byte
- \item Call \typ{close()} when done using a file
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Math}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item \typ{math} module provides basic math routines for
- floats
- \item \typ{cmath} module provides math routies for complex
- numbers
- \item \typ{random}: provides pseudo-random number generators
- for various distributions
- \item These are always available and part of the standard library
- \item More serious math is provided by the NumPy/SciPy modules --
- these are not standard and need to be installed separately
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Timing and profiling}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Timing code: use the \typ{time} module
- \item Read up on \typ{time.time()} and \typ{time.clock()}
- \item \typ{timeit}: is a better way of doing timing
- \item IPython has handy \typ{time} and \typ{timeit} macros (type
- \typ{timeit?} for help)
- \item IPython lets you debug and profile code via the \typ{run}
- macro (type \typ{run?} on the prompt to learn more)
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Odds and ends}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item \typ{dir([object])} function: attributes of given object
- \item \typ{type(object)}: returns type information
- \item \typ{str(), repr()}: convert object to string representation
- \item \typ{isinstance, issubclass}
- \item \typ{assert} statements let you do debugging assertions in
- code
- \item \typ{csv} module: reading and writing CSV files
- \item \typ{pickle}: lets you save and load Python objects
- (\alert{serialization})
- \item \typ{sys.argv}: command line arguments
- \item \typ{os.path}: common path manipulations
- \item Check out the Python Library reference:
- \url{http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html}
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Test driven development (TDD)}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Why?
- \begin{itemize}
-
- \item Forces you to write reusable code!
-
- \item Think about the API
-
- \item More robust
-
- \item Makes refactoring very easy
-
- \end{itemize}
- \item How? Python offers three major ways of doing this
- \begin{itemize}
- \item doctest
- \item unittest
- \item nosetest (and similar like py.test)
- \end{itemize}
-
- \item Test every piece of functionality you offer
-
- \item This isn't a formal introduction but more a practical one
-
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Unit test}
-\begin{lstlisting}
-import unittest
-
-class MyTestCase(unittest.TestCase):
- def setUp(self):
- # Called *before* each test_*
- def tearDown(self):
- # Called *after* each test_*
- def test_something(self):
- "docstring"
- # Test code.
- self.assertEqual(x, y)
- self.assertRaises(ValueError, func, arg1, arg2 ...)
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
- unittest.main()
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Nosetest}
-\begin{lstlisting}
-import particle
-def test_particle():
- # Use asserts here.
- p = particle.Particle(1.0)
- assert p.property[0] == 1.0
- assert p.property[2] == 0.0
-
-if __name__ == '__main__':
- import nose
- nose.main()
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Testing}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item More details: see library reference and search for nosetest
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\section{Numerics \& Plotting}
-
-\subsection{NumPy Arrays}
-
-\newcommand{\num}{\texttt{numpy}}
-
-\begin{frame}
- \frametitle{The \num\ module}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Manipulating large Python lists for scientific computing is
- \alert{slow}
- \item Most complex computations can be reduced to a few standard
- operations
- \item The \num\ module provides:
- \begin{itemize}
- \item An efficient and powerful array type for various common data
- types
- \item Abstracts out the most commonly used standard operations on
- arrays
- \end{itemize}
- \item Numeric was the first, then came \texttt{numarray}.
- \texttt{numpy} is the latest and is the future
- \item This course uses \num\ and only covers the absolute basics
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}
- \frametitle{Basic concepts}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item \num\ arrays are of a fixed size (\typ{arr.size}) and have the
- same type (\typ{arr.dtype})
- \item \num\ arrays may have arbitrary dimensionality
- \item The \typ{shape} of an array is the extent (length) of the
- array along each dimension
- \item The \typ{rank(arr)} of an array is the ``dimensionality'' of the
- array
- \item The \typ{arr.itemsize} is the number of bytes (8-bits) used for
- each element of the array
- \item \alert{Note:} The \typ{shape} and \typ{rank} may change as
- long as the \typ{size} of the array is fixed
- \item \alert{Note:} \typ{len(arr) != arr.size} in general
- \item \alert{Note:} By default array operations are performed
- \alert{elementwise}
- \item Indices start from 0
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Examples of \num}
-\begin{lstlisting}
-# Simple array math example
->>> from numpy import *
->>> a = array([1,2,3,4])
->>> b = array([2,3,4,5])
->>> a + b # Element wise addition!
-array([3, 5, 7, 9])
-
->>> print pi, e # Pi and e are defined.
-3.14159265359 2.71828182846
-# Create array from 0 to 10
->>> x = arange(0.0, 10.0, 0.05)
->>> x *= 2*pi/10 # multiply array by scalar value
-array([ 0.,0.0314,...,6.252])
-# apply functions to array.
->>> y = sin(x)
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{More examples of \num}
-\vspace*{-8pt}
-\begin{lstlisting}
-# Size, shape, rank, type etc.
->>> x = array([1., 2, 3, 4])
->>> size(x)
-4
->>> x.dtype # or x.dtype.char
-'d'
->>> x.shape
-(4,)
->>> print rank(x), x.itemsize
-1 8
->>> x.tolist()
-[1.0, 2.0, 3.0, 4.0]
-# Array indexing
->>> x[0] = 10
->>> print x[0], x[-1]
-10.0 4.0
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Multi-dimensional arrays}
-\begin{lstlisting}
->>> a = array([[ 0, 1, 2, 3],
-... [10,11,12,13]])
->>> a.shape # (rows, columns)
-(2, 4)
-# Accessing and setting values
->>> a[1,3]
-13
->>> a[1,3] = -1
->>> a[1] # The second row
-array([10,11,12,-1])
-
-# Flatten/ravel arrays to 1D arrays
->>> a.flat # or ravel(a)
-array([0,1,2,3,10,11,12,-1])
-# Note: flat references original memory
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Slicing arrays}
-\begin{lstlisting}
->>> a = array([[1,2,3], [4,5,6], [7,8,9]])
->>> a[0,1:3]
-array([2, 3])
->>> a[1:,1:]
-array([[5, 6],
- [8, 9]])
->>> a[:,2]
-array([3, 6, 9])
-# Striding...
->>> a[0::2,0::2]
-array([[1, 3],
- [7, 9]])
-# All these slices are references to the same memory!
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-% \begin{frame}[fragile]
-% \frametitle{Array types and typecodes}
-% \begin{tabular}[c]{|c|c|p{2.75in}|}
-% \hline
-% Character & Bits (bytes) & Type name \\
-% \hline
-% D & 128 (16) & \typ{Complex, Complex64}\\
-% F & 64 (8) & \typ{Complex0, Complex8, Complex16} \\
-% d & 64 (8) & \typ{Float, Float64} \\
-% f & 32 (4) & \typ{Float0, Float8, Float16} \\
-% i & 32 (4) & \typ{Int32} \\
-% l & 32 (4) & \typ{Int} \\
-% O & 4 (1) & \typ{PyObject} \\
-% %b 8 (1) UnsignedInt8
-% %1 (one) 8 (1) Int8
-% %s 16 (2) Int16
-% \hline
-% \end{tabular}
-% \begin{lstlisting}
-% # Examples
-% >>> f = array([1,2,3], Float32)
-% >>> c = array([1,2,3], Complex32)
-% >>> print f, c
-% [ 1. 2. 3.] [ 1.+0.j 2.+0.j 3.+0.j]
-% \end{lstlisting}
-% \end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Array creation functions}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item \typ{array(object, dtype=None, copy=1,order=None, subok=0,ndmin=0)}
- \item \typ{arange(start, stop=None, step=1, dtype=None)}
- \item \typ{linspace(start, stop, num=50, endpoint=True, retstep=False)}
- \item \typ{ones(shape, dtype=None, order='C')}
- \item \typ{zeros((d1,...,dn),dtype=float,order='C')}
- \item \typ{identity(n)}
- \item \typ{empty((d1,...,dn),dtype=float,order='C')}
- \item \typ{ones\_like(x)}, \typ{zeros\_like(x)}, \typ{empty\_like(x)}
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Array math}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Basic \alert{elementwise} math (given two arrays \typ{a, b}):
- \begin{itemize}
- \item \typ{a + b $\rightarrow$ add(a, b)}
- \item \typ{a - b, $\rightarrow$ subtract(a, b)}
- \item \typ{a * b, $\rightarrow$ multiply(a, b)}
- \item \typ{a / b, $\rightarrow$ divide(a, b)}
- \item \typ{a \% b, $\rightarrow$ remainder(a, b)}
- \item \typ{a ** b, $\rightarrow$ power(a, b)}
- \end{itemize}
- \item Inplace operators: \typ{a += b}, or \typ{add(a, b,
- a)} etc.
- \item Logical operations: \typ{equal (==)}, \typ{not\_equal (!=)},
- \typ{less (<)}, \typ{greater (>)} etc.
- \item Trig and other functions: \typ{sin(x), arcsin(x), sinh(x),
- exp(x), sqrt(x)} etc.
- \item \typ{sum(x, axis=0), product(x, axis=0)}: sum and product of array elements
- \item \typ{dot(a, b)}
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Advanced}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Only scratched the surface of \num
- \item Ufunc methods: \typ{reduce, accumulate, outer, reduceat}
- \item Typecasting
- \item More functions: \typ{take, choose, where, compress,
- concatenate}
- \item Array broadcasting and \typ{None}
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\subsection{Plotting: Matplotlib}
-
-\begin{frame}
- \frametitle{About \texttt{matplotlib}}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Easy to use, scriptable, ``Matlab-like'' 2D plotting
- \item Publication quality figures and interactive capabilities
- \item Plots, histograms, power spectra, bar charts, errorcharts,
- scatterplots, etc.
- \item Also does polar plots, maps, contours
- \item Support for simple \TeX\ markup
- \item Multiple output backends (images, EPS, SVG, wx, Agg, Tk, GTK)
- \item Cross-platform: Linux, Win32, Mac OS X
- \item Good idea to use via IPython: \typ{ipython -pylab}
- \item From scripts use: \typ{import pylab}
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}
- \frametitle{More information}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item More information here: \url{http://matplotlib.sf.net}
- \item \url{http://matplotlib.sf.net/tutorial.html}
- \item \url{http://matplotlib.sf.net/screenshots.html}
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Basic plotting with \texttt{matplotlib}}
-\begin{lstlisting}
->>> x = arange(0, 2*pi, 0.05)
->>> plot(x, sin(x)) # Same as plot(x, sin(x), 'b-')
->>> plot(x, sin(x), 'ro')
->>> axis([0,2*pi, -1,1])
->>> xlabel(r'$\chi$', color='g')
->>> ylabel(r'sin($\chi$)', color='r')
->>> title('A simple figure', fontsize=20)
->>> savefig('/tmp/test.eps')
-# Multiple plots in one figure
->>> t = arange(0.0, 5.2, 0.2)
-# red dashes, blue squares and green triangles
->>> plot(t, t, 'r--', t, t**2, 'bs', t, t**3, 'g^')
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Basic plotting \ldots}
-\begin{lstlisting}
-# Set properties of objects:
->>> plot(x, sin(x), linewidth=2.0, color='r')
->>> l, = plot(x, sin(x))
->>> setp(l, linewidth=2.0, color='r')
->>> l.set_linewidth(2.0); l.set_color('r')
->>> draw() # Redraws current figure.
->>> setp(l) # Prints available properties
->>> close() # Closes the figure.
-# Multiple figures:
->>> figure(1); plot(x, sin(x))
->>> figure(2); plot(x, tanh(x))
->>> figure(1); title('Easy as 1,2,3')
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Basic plotting \ldots}
-\begin{lstlisting}
->>> figure(1)
->>> subplot(211) # Same as subplot(2, 1, 1)
->>> plot(x, cos(5*x)*exp(-x))
->>> subplot(2, 1, 2)
->>> plot(x, cos(5*x), 'r--', label='cosine')
->>> plot(x, sin(5*x), 'g--', label='sine')
->>> legend() # Or legend(['cosine', 'sine'])
->>> text(1,0, '(1,0)')
->>> axes = gca() # Current axis
->>> fig = gcf() # Current figure
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{X-Y plot}
- \begin{columns}
- \column{0.5\textwidth}
- \hspace*{-0.5in}
- \includegraphics[height=2in, interpolate=true]{data/xyplot}
- \column{0.45\textwidth}
- \begin{block}{Example code}
- \tiny
-\begin{lstlisting}
-t1 = arange(0.0, 5.0, 0.1)
-t2 = arange(0.0, 5.0, 0.02)
-t3 = arange(0.0, 2.0, 0.01)
-subplot(211)
-plot(t1, cos(2*pi*t1)*exp(-t1), 'bo',
- t2, cos(2*pi*t2)*exp(-t2), 'k')
-grid(True)
-title('A tale of 2 subplots')
-ylabel('Damped')
-subplot(212)
-plot(t3, cos(2*pi*t3), 'r--')
-grid(True)
-xlabel('time (s)')
-ylabel('Undamped')
-\end{lstlisting}
- \end{block}
- \end{columns}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Errorbar}
- \begin{columns}
- \column{0.5\textwidth}
- \hspace*{-0.5in}
- \includegraphics[height=2in, interpolate=true]{data/errorbar}
- \column{0.45\textwidth}
- \begin{block}{Example code}
- \tiny
-\begin{lstlisting}
-t = arange(0.1, 4, 0.1)
-s = exp(-t)
-e = 0.1*abs(randn(len(s)))
-f = 0.1*abs(randn(len(s)))
-g = 2*e
-h = 2*f
-errorbar(t, s, [e,g], f, fmt='o')
-xlabel('Distance (m)')
-ylabel('Height (m)')
-title('Mean and standard error '\
- 'as a function of distance')
-\end{lstlisting}
- \end{block}
-\end{columns}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Semi-log and log-log plots}
- \begin{columns}
- \column{0.5\textwidth}
- \hspace*{-0.5in}
- \includegraphics[height=2in, interpolate=true]{data/log}
- \column{0.45\textwidth}
- \begin{block}{Example code}
- \tiny
-\begin{lstlisting}
-dt = 0.01
-t = arange(dt, 20.0, dt)
-subplot(311)
-semilogy(t, exp(-t/5.0))
-ylabel('semilogy')
-grid(True)
-subplot(312)
-semilogx(t, sin(2*pi*t))
-ylabel('semilogx')
-grid(True)
-# minor grid on too
-gca().xaxis.grid(True, which='minor')
-subplot(313)
-loglog(t, 20*exp(-t/10.0), basex=4)
-grid(True)
-ylabel('loglog base 4 on x')
-\end{lstlisting}
- \end{block}
-\end{columns}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Histogram}
- \begin{columns}
- \column{0.5\textwidth}
- \hspace*{-0.5in}
- \includegraphics[height=2in, interpolate=true]{data/histogram}
- \column{0.45\textwidth}
- \begin{block}{Example code}
- \tiny
-\begin{lstlisting}
-mu, sigma = 100, 15
-x = mu + sigma*randn(10000)
-# the histogram of the data
-n, bins, patches = hist(x, 100, normed=1)
-# add a 'best fit' line
-y = normpdf( bins, mu, sigma)
-l = plot(bins, y, 'r--', linewidth=2)
-xlim(40, 160)
-xlabel('Smarts')
-ylabel('P')
-title(r'$\rm{IQ:}\/ \mu=100,\/ \sigma=15$')
-\end{lstlisting}
- \end{block}
-\end{columns}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Bar charts}
- \begin{columns}
- \column{0.5\textwidth}
- \hspace*{-0.5in}
- \includegraphics[height=2in, interpolate=true]{data/barchart}
- \column{0.45\textwidth}
- \begin{block}{Example code}
- \tiny
-\begin{lstlisting}
-N = 5
-menMeans = (20, 35, 30, 35, 27)
-menStd = ( 2, 3, 4, 1, 2)
-# the x locations for the groups
-ind = arange(N)
-# the width of the bars
-width = 0.35
-p1 = bar(ind, menMeans, width,
- color='r', yerr=menStd)
-womenMeans = (25, 32, 34, 20, 25)
-womenStd = ( 3, 5, 2, 3, 3)
-p2 = bar(ind+width, womenMeans, width,
- color='y', yerr=womenStd)
-ylabel('Scores')
-title('Scores by group and gender')
-xticks(ind+width,
- ('G1', 'G2', 'G3', 'G4', 'G5'))
-xlim(-width,len(ind))
-yticks(arange(0,41,10))
-legend((p1[0], p2[0]),
- ('Men', 'Women'), shadow=True)
-\end{lstlisting}
- \end{block}
-\end{columns}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Pie charts}
- \begin{columns}
- \column{0.5\textwidth}
- \hspace*{-0.4in}
- \includegraphics[height=2.0in, interpolate=true]{data/piechart}
- \column{0.45\textwidth}
- \begin{block}{Example code}
- \tiny
-\begin{lstlisting}
-# make a square figure and axes
-figure(1, figsize=(8,8))
-ax = axes([0.1, 0.1, 0.8, 0.8])
-labels = 'Frogs', 'Hogs', 'Dogs', 'Logs'
-fracs = [15,30,45, 10]
-explode=(0, 0.05, 0, 0)
-pie(fracs, explode=explode, labels=labels,
- autopct='%1.1f%%', shadow=True)
-title('Raining Hogs and Dogs',
- bbox={'facecolor':'0.8', 'pad':5})
-\end{lstlisting}
- \end{block}
-\end{columns}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Scatter plots}
- \begin{columns}
- \column{0.5\textwidth}
- \hspace*{-0.4in}
- \includegraphics[height=2in, interpolate=true]{data/scatter}
- \column{0.45\textwidth}
- \begin{block}{Example code}
- \tiny
-\begin{lstlisting}
-N = 30
-x = 0.9*rand(N)
-y = 0.9*rand(N)
-# 0 to 10 point radiuses
-area = pi*(10 * rand(N))**2
-volume = 400 + rand(N)*450
-scatter(x,y,s=area, marker='o', c=volume,
- alpha=0.75)
-xlabel(r'$\Delta_i$', size='x-large')
-ylabel(r'$\Delta_{i+1}$', size='x-large')
-title(r'Volume and percent change')
-grid(True)
-colorbar()
-savefig('scatter')
-\end{lstlisting}
- \end{block}
-\end{columns}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Polar}
- \begin{columns}
- \column{0.5\textwidth}
- \hspace*{-0.5in}
- \includegraphics[height=2in, interpolate=true]{data/polar}
- \column{0.45\textwidth}
- \begin{block}{Example code}
- \tiny
-\begin{lstlisting}
-figure(figsize=(8,8))
-ax = axes([0.1, 0.1, 0.8, 0.8], polar=True,
- axisbg='#d5de9c')
-r = arange(0,1,0.001)
-theta = 2*2*pi*r
-polar(theta, r, color='#ee8d18', lw=3)
-# the radius of the grid labels
-setp(ax.thetagridlabels, y=1.075)
-title(r"$\theta=4\pi r", fontsize=20)
-\end{lstlisting}
- \end{block}
-\end{columns}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Contours}
- \begin{columns}
- \column{0.45\textwidth}
- \hspace*{-0.5in}
- \includegraphics[height=2in, interpolate=true]{data/contour}
- \column{0.525\textwidth}
- \begin{block}{Example code}
- \tiny
-\begin{lstlisting}
-x = arange(-3.0, 3.0, 0.025)
-y = arange(-2.0, 2.0, 0.025)
-X, Y = meshgrid(x, y)
-Z1 = bivariate_normal(X, Y, 1.0, 1.0, 0.0, 0.0)
-Z2 = bivariate_normal(X, Y, 1.5, 0.5, 1, 1)
-# difference of Gaussians
-Z = 10.0 * (Z2 - Z1)
-im = imshow(Z, interpolation='bilinear',
- origin='lower',
- cmap=cm.gray, extent=(-3,3,-2,2))
-levels = arange(-1.2, 1.6, 0.2)
-# label every second level
-clabel(CS, levels[1::2], inline=1,
- fmt='%1.1f', fontsize=14)
-CS = contour(Z, levels,
- origin='lower',
- linewidths=2,
- extent=(-3,3,-2,2))
-# make a colorbar for the contour lines
-CB = colorbar(CS, shrink=0.8, extend='both')
-title('Lines with colorbar')
-hot(); flag()
-\end{lstlisting}
- \end{block}
-\end{columns}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Velocity vectors}
- \begin{columns}
- \column{0.5\textwidth}
- \hspace*{-0.5in}
- \includegraphics[height=2in, interpolate=true]{data/quiver}
- \column{0.45\textwidth}
- \begin{block}{Example code}
- \tiny
-\begin{lstlisting}
-X,Y = meshgrid(arange(0,2*pi,.2),
- arange(0,2*pi,.2) )
-U = cos(X)
-V = sin(Y)
-Q = quiver(X[::3, ::3], Y[::3, ::3],
- U[::3, ::3], V[::3, ::3],
- color='r', units='x',
- linewidths=(2,),
- edgecolors=('k'),
- headaxislength=5 )
-qk = quiverkey(Q, 0.5, 0.03, 1, '1 m/s',
- fontproperties=
- {'weight': 'bold'})
-axis([-1, 7, -1, 7])
-title('triangular head; scale '\
- 'with x view; black edges')
-\end{lstlisting}
- \end{block}
-\end{columns}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile] \frametitle{Maps}
- \includegraphics[height=2.5in, interpolate=true]{data/plotmap}
- \begin{center}
- \tiny
- For details see \url{http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/screenshots/plotmap.py}
- \end{center}
-\end{frame}
-
-
-\subsection{SciPy}
-
-\begin{frame}
- \frametitle{Using \texttt{SciPy}}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item SciPy is Open Source software for mathematics, science, and
- engineering
- \item \typ{import scipy}
- \item Built on NumPy
- \item Provides modules for statistics, optimization, integration,
- linear algebra, Fourier transforms, signal and image processing,
- genetic algorithms, ODE solvers, special functions, and more
- \item Used widely by scientists world over
- \item Details are beyond the scope of this tutorial
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\section{Standard library}
-
-\subsection{Quick Tour}
-
-\begin{frame}
- \frametitle{Standard library}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Very powerful
- \item ``Batteries included''
- \item Example standard modules taken from the tutorial
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Operating system interface: \typ{os}
- \item System, Command line arguments: \typ{sys}
- \item Regular expressions: \typ{re}
- \item Math: \typ{math}, \typ{random}
- \item Internet access: \typ{urllib2}, \typ{smtplib}
- \item Data compression: \typ{zlib}, \typ{gzip}, \typ{bz2},
- \typ{zipfile}, and \typ{tarfile}
- \item Unit testing: \typ{doctest} and \typ{unittest}
- \item And a whole lot more!
- \end{itemize}
- \item Check out the Python Library reference:
- \url{http://docs.python.org/lib/lib.html}
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Stdlib: examples}
-\begin{lstlisting}
->>> import os
->>> os.system('date')
-Fri Jun 10 22:13:09 IST 2005
-0
->>> os.getcwd()
-'/home/prabhu'
->>> os.chdir('/tmp')
->>> import os
->>> dir(os)
-<returns a list of all module functions>
->>> help(os)
-<extensive manual page from module's docstrings>
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Stdlib: examples}
-\begin{lstlisting}
->>> import sys
->>> # Print the list of command line args to Python
-... print sys.argv
-['']
->>> import re # Regular expressions
->>> re.findall(r'\bf[a-z]*',
-... 'which foot or hand fell fastest')
-['foot', 'fell', 'fastest']
->>> re.sub(r'(\b[a-z]+) \1', r'\1',
-... 'cat in the the hat')
-'cat in the hat'
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Stdlib: examples}
-\begin{lstlisting}
->>> import math
->>> math.cos(math.pi / 4.0)
-0.70710678118654757
->>> math.log(1024, 2)
-10.0
->>> import random
->>> random.choice(['apple', 'pear', 'banana'])
-'pear'
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Stdlib: examples}
-\begin{lstlisting}
->>> import urllib2
->>> f = urllib2.urlopen('http://www.python.org/')
->>> print f.read(100)
-<!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.01 Transitional//EN">
-<?xml-stylesheet href="./css/ht2html
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Stdlib: examples}
-\begin{lstlisting}
->>> import zlib
->>> s = 'witch which has which witches wrist watch'
->>> len(s)
-41
->>> t = zlib.compress(s)
->>> len(t)
-37
->>> zlib.decompress(t)
-'witch which has which witches wrist watch'
->>> zlib.crc32(t)
--1438085031
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}
- \frametitle{Summary}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Introduced Python
- \item Basic syntax
- \item Basic types and data structures
- \item Control flow
- \item Functions
- \item Modules
- \item Exceptions
- \item Classes
- \item Standard library
- \end{itemize}
\end{frame}
\end{document}
-
-\subsection{Basic data structures}
-\begin{frame}{Lists}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item \texttt{species = [ 'humans', 'orcs', 'elves', 'dwarves' ]}
- \item \texttt{ ids = [ 107, 109, 124, 141, 142, 144 ]}
- \item \texttt{ oneliners = [ 'I will be back', 'Do or do not! No try!!', 42 ] }
- \end{itemize}
-
- \begin{block}{List operations}
- ids + [ 100, 102 ]\\
- species.append( 'unicorns')\\
- print oneliners[ 1 ]\\
- look up \alert{docs.python.org/tutorial/datastructures.html}
- \end{block}
-\end{frame}
-\end{document}
-\section{Python Tutorial}
-\subsection{Preliminaries}
-\begin{frame}
- \frametitle{Using the interpreter}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Starting up: \typ{python} or \typ{ipython}
- \item Quitting: \typ{Control-D} or \typ{Control-Z} (on Win32)
- \item Can use it like a calculator
- \item Can execute one-liners via the \typ{-c} option:
- \typ{python -c "print 'hello world'"}
- \item Other options via \typ{python -h}
- \end{itemize}
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-\begin{frame}
- \frametitle{IPython}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Recommended interpreter, IPython:
- \url{http://ipython.scipy.org}
- \item Better than the default Python shell
- \item Supports tab completion by default
- \item Easier object introspection
- \item Shell access!
- \item Command system to allow extending its own behavior
- \item Supports history (across sessions) and logging
- \item Can be embedded in your own Python code
- \item Support for macros
- \item A flexible framework for your own custom interpreter
- \item Other miscellaneous conveniences
- \item We'll get back to this later
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Basic IPython features}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Startup: \verb+ipython [options] files+
- \begin{itemize}
- \item \verb+ipython [-wthread|-gthread|-qthread]+:
- Threading modes to support wxPython, pyGTK and Qt
- \item \verb+ipython -pylab+: Support for matplotlib
- \end{itemize}
- \item TAB completion:
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Type \verb+object_name.<TAB>+ to see list of options
- \item Also completes on file and directory names
- \end{itemize}
- \item \verb+object?+ shows docstring/help for any Python object
- \item \verb+object??+ presents more docs (and source if possible)
- \item Debugging with \verb+%pdb+ magic: pops up pdb on errors
- \item Access history (saved over earlier sessions also)
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Use \texttt{<UpArrow>}: move up history
- \item Use \texttt{<Ctrl-r> string}: search history backwards
- \item Use \texttt{Esc >}: get back to end of history
- \end{itemize}
- \item \verb+%run [options] file[.py]+ lets you run Python code
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
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- \item Types are of two kinds: \alert{mutable} and \alert{immutable}
- \item Immutable types: numbers, strings, \typ{None} and tuples
- \item Immutables cannot be changed ``in-place''
- \item Mutable types: lists, dictionaries, instances, etc.
- \item Mutable objects can be ``changed''
- \end{itemize}
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-\begin{frame}
- \frametitle{Important!}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Assignment to an object is by reference
- \item Essentially, \alert{names are bound to objects}
- \end{itemize}
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-\end{document}
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Dictionaries}
- \begin{itemize}
- \item Associative arrays/mappings
- \item Indexed by ``keys'' (keys must be immutable)
- \item \typ{dict[key] = value}
- \item \typ{keys()} returns all keys of the dict
- \item \typ{values()} returns the values of the dict
- \item \verb+has_key(key)+ returns if \typ{key} is in the dict
- \end{itemize}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{Dictionaries: example}
- \begin{lstlisting}
->>> tel = {'jack': 4098, 'sape': 4139}
->>> tel['guido'] = 4127
->>> tel
-{'sape': 4139, 'guido': 4127, 'jack': 4098}
->>> tel['jack']
-4098
->>> del tel['sape']
->>> tel['irv'] = 4127
->>> tel
-{'guido': 4127, 'irv': 4127, 'jack': 4098}
->>> tel.keys()
-['guido', 'irv', 'jack']
->>> tel.has_key('guido')
-True
- \end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\subsection{Control flow, functions}
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-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{\typ{If} example}
- \begin{lstlisting}
->>> a = ['cat', 'window', 'defenestrate']
->>> if 'cat' in a:
-... print "meaw"
-...
-meaw
->>> pets = {'cat': 1, 'dog':2, 'croc': 10}
->>> if 'croc' in pets:
-... print pets['croc']
-...
-10
- \end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}
-
-\begin{frame}[fragile]
- \frametitle{\typ{for} example}
- \begin{lstlisting}
->>> a = ['cat', 'window', 'defenestrate']
->>> for x in a:
-... print x, len(x)
-...
-cat 3
-window 6
-defenestrate 12
->>> knights = {'gallahad': 'the pure',
-... 'robin': 'the brave'}
->>> for k, v in knights.iteritems():
-... print k, v
-...
-gallahad the pure
-robin the brave
-\end{lstlisting}
-\end{frame}