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NumPy Cookbook - Second Edition

By : Ivan Idris
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NumPy Cookbook - Second Edition

By: Ivan Idris

Overview of this book

<p>NumPy has the ability to give you speed and high productivity. High performance calculations can be done easily with clean and efficient code, and it allows you to execute complex algebraic and mathematical computations in no time.</p> <p>This book will give you a solid foundation in NumPy arrays and universal functions. Starting with the installation and configuration of IPython, you'll learn about advanced indexing and array concepts along with commonly used yet effective functions. You will then cover practical concepts such as image processing, special arrays, and universal functions. You will also learn about plotting with Matplotlib and the related SciPy project with the help of examples. At the end of the book, you will study how to explore atmospheric pressure and its related techniques. By the time you finish this book, you'll be able to write clean and fast code with NumPy.</p>
Table of Contents (19 chapters)
NumPy Cookbook Second Edition
Credits
About the Author
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
Index

Installing SciPy


SciPy is the scientific Python library and is closely related to NumPy. In fact, SciPy and NumPy used to be the same project many years ago. SciPy, just like NumPy, is an open source project available under the BSD license. In this recipe, we will install SciPy. SciPy provides advanced functionality, including statistics, signal processing, linear algebra, optimization, FFT, ODE solvers, interpolation, special functions, and integration. There is some overlap with NumPy, but NumPy primarily provides array functionality.

Getting ready

In Chapter 1, Winding Along with IPython, we discussed how to install setuptools and pip. Reread the recipe if necessary.

How to do it...

In this recipe, we will go through the steps for installing SciPy:

  • Installing from source: If you have Git installed, you can clone the SciPy repository using the following command:

    $ git clone https://github.com/scipy/scipy.git
    
    $ python setup.py build
    $ python setup.py install --user   
    

    This installs SciPy to...