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Python Scripting for Computational Science

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  • © 2008

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Editors:
  1. Hans Petter Langtangen

    1. Simula Research Laboratory, Lysaker, Norway

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  • Shows how to develop tailored, flexible, and human-efficient working environments using the easy-to-learn, high-level Python language
  • Focuses on examples and applications of practical use to computational scientists
  • Compatible with the new NumPy implementation and features updated information, correction of errors, and improved associated software tools
  • All the tools and examples in the book are open source codes
  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

Part of the book series: Texts in Computational Science and Engineering (TCSE, volume 3)

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages I-XXVI
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  2. Introduction

    Pages 1-25

  3. Getting Started with Python Scripting

    Pages 27-72

  4. Basic Python

    Pages 73-130

  5. Numerical Computing in Python

    Pages 131-188

  6. Combining Python with Fortran, C, and C++

    Pages 189-226

  7. Introduction to GUI Programming

    Pages 227-294

  8. Web Interfaces and CGI Programming

    Pages 295-318

  9. Advanced Python

    Pages 319-449

  10. Fortran Programming with NumPy Arrays

    Pages 451-482

  11. C and C++ Programming with NumPy Arrays

    Pages 483-528

  12. More Advanced GUI Programming

    Pages 529-603

  13. Tools and Examples

    Pages 605-676

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 677-756
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About this book

Numerous readers of the second edition have noti?ed me about misprints and possible improvements of the text and the associated computer codes. The resulting modi?cations have been incorporated in this new edition and its accompanying software. The major change between the second and third editions, however, is caused by the new implementation of Numerical Python, now called numpy. The new numpy package encourages a slightly di?erent syntax compared to the old Numeric implementation, which was used in the previous editions. Since Numerical Python functionality appears in a lot of places in the book, there are hence a huge number of updates to the new suggested numpy syntax, especially in Chapters 4, 9, and 10. The second edition was based on Python version 2.3, while the third edition contains updates for version 2.5. Recent Python features, such as generator expressions (Chapter 8.9.4), Ctypes for interfacing shared libraries in C (Chapter 5.2.2), the with statement (Chapter 3.1.4), and the subprocess module for running external processes (Chapter 3.1.3) have been exempli?ed to make the reader aware of new tools. Chapter 4.4.4 is new and gives a taste of symbolic mathematics in Python.

Reviews

From the reviews of the second edition:

"This book addresses primarily a CSE (computational science and engineering) audience. … gives a clear and detailed account on the ways in which the surprisingly powerful Python language may aid the CSE community." (H. Muthsam, Monatshefte für Mathematik, Vol. 151 (4), 2007)

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  • Simula Research Laboratory, Lysaker, Norway

    Hans Petter Langtangen

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