Appendix A
Python
The examples in this book are all written in Python, and the various graphs and results were also created in that language, using the code available via the book website. The purpose of this chapter is to give a brief introduction to using Python, and particularly NumPy, the numerical library for Python.
A.1 Installing Python and Other Packages
The Python language is very compact, but there are huge numbers of extensions and libraries available to make it more suited to a wide variety of tasks. Almost all of the examples in the book use NumPy, a set of numerical libraries, and the figures are produced using Matplotlib. Both of these packages have syntax that is similar to MATLAB®. There are a few places where examples also use ...
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