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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 Google App Engine


Google App Engine (GAE) enables you to build web applications on the Google Cloud. Since 2012, there is official support for NumPy; you need a Google account to use GAE.

How to do it...

The first step is to download GAE:

  1. Download GAE for your operating system from https://developers.google.com/appengine/downloads.

    From this page, you can download documentation and the GAE Eclipse plugin as well. If you are developing with Eclipse, you should definitely install it.

  2. The development environment.

    GAE comes with a development environment that simulates the production cloud. At the time of writing this book, GAE officially supported only Python 2.5 and 2.7. GAE will try to find Python on your system; however, it may be necessary to set that yourself, for instance, if you have multiple Python versions. You can set this setting in the Preferences dialog of the launcher application.

    There are two important scripts in the SDK:

    • dev_appserver.py: The development server

    • appcfg...