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NumPy Cookbook

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NumPy Cookbook

Overview of this book

Today's world of science and technology is all about speed and flexibility. When it comes to scientific computing, NumPy is on the top of the list. NumPy will give you both speed and high productivity. "NumPy Cookbook" will teach you all about NumPy, a leading scientific computing library. NumPy replaces a lot of the functionality of Matlab and Mathematica, but in contrast to those products, it is free and open source. "Numpy Cookbook" will teach you to write readable, efficient, and fast code that is as close to the language of Mathematics as much as possible with the cutting edge open source NumPy software library. You will learn about installing and using NumPy and related concepts. At the end of the book, we will explore related scientific computing projects. This book will give you a solid foundation in NumPy arrays and universal functions. You will also learn about plotting with Matplotlib and the related SciPy project through examples. "NumPy Cookbook" will help you to be productive with NumPy and write clean and fast code.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
NumPy Cookbook
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 in the Google cloud. Since 2012, there is official support for NumPy; you need to have a Google account to use GAE.

How to do it...

The first step is to download GAE.

  1. Download GAE.

    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, which simulates the production cloud. GAE, at the time of writing, only supported officially 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: Development server...