Transcript 2007Jan-pythonwin

Windows
Python Tutorial
Title
Center for Coastal and
Ocean Mapping
NOAA/UNH Joint
Hydrographic Center
Kurt Schwehr
Jan 2007
Day 1
Introduction and Basic Mechanics
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Installing python and a source code editor
Editing and running script files
Using the IPython shell
Basic python concepts
Class website:
http://vislab-ccom.unh.edu/~schwehr/Classes
Python Homepage
http://python.org
Online documentation
http://docs.python.org/tut/
Books
http://diveintopython.org
Videos
Installing python
Download and install the big
package
What you get
You can use dos
Exit with Ctrl-D or Ctrl-Z
Cygwin is also good
Challenge is getting all the packages installed
Start ipython!
What is ipython?
IPython: an Enhanced Python Shell
Get started with IPython
We need to be able to save & run scripts
Start SciTE
Initial ScitTE view
Ex01 - hellow world
Saving a file in SciTE
Running ex01.py
Basic string operations
Getting help with the ‘tab’ key
More string operations
Lists are created with [ ]
The math module
Getting help on functions
More help
from math import *
If tests and indentation matters
for loops
Matplot lib
1st plot
2nd plot