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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

Building a Hello World program


As is the tradition with programming languages, we will start with a Hello World example. Unlike with Python, we need to compile Cython code. We start with a .pyx file, from which we will generate C code. This .c file can be compiled and then imported into a Python program.

How to do it...

This section describes how to build a Cython Hello World program.

  1. Write the hello.pyx code.

    First, we will write some pretty trivial code that prints "Hello World". This is just normal Python code, but the file has the pyx extension.

    def say_hello():
    print "Hello World!"
  2. Write a distutils setup.py script.

    We need to create a file named setup.py to help us build the Cython code.

    from distutils.core import setup
    from distutils.extension import Extension
    from Cython.Distutils import build_ext
    
    ext_modules = [Extension("hello", ["hello.pyx"])]
    
    setup(
            name = 'Hello world app',
            cmdclass = {'build_ext': build_ext},
            ext_modules = ext_modules
         )

    As you can...