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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

Running the NumPy code in a PythonAnywhere web console


In Chapter 1, Winding Along with IPython, we already saw a PythonAnywhere console in action, without having an account. This recipe will require you to have an account, but don't worry—it's free, at least if you don't need too many resources.

Signing up is a pretty straightforward process and will not be covered here. NumPy has already been installed along with a long list of other Python software. For a complete list, see https://www.pythonanywhere.com/batteries_included/.

We will set up a simple script that gets price data from Google Finance every minute, and performs simple statistics with the prices using NumPy.

How to do it...

Once we have signed up, we can log in and take a look at the PythonAnywhere dashboard.

  1. Write the code. The complete code for this example is as follows:

    from __future__ import print_function
    import urllib2
    import re
    import time
    import numpy as np
    
    prices = np.array([])
    
    for i in xrange(3):
       req = urllib2.Request...