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Python Tools for Scientists
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Python Tools for Scientists

by Lee Vaughan
January 2023
Intermediate to advanced
472 pages
17h 59m
English
No Starch Press
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INDEX

Symbols

= (assignment) operator, 177

\ (backslash escape character), 190–191

() (call operator), 284

** (combining dictionaries) operator, 252

/ (division) operator, 176

// (floor division) operator, 176

# (hash) symbol, 378

\ (line continuation character), 189

% (modulo) operator, 176

+ (plus sign)

addition operator, 176

string concatenation operator, 192

** (power) operator, 177

* (splat) operator, 226, 228

* (string replication) operator, 192

- (subtraction) operator, 176

@ (syntactic sugar) symbol, 363–364

A

absolute paths, 319–320

abstraction, 283

accessing

array attributes, 504–506

data types, 185

access modes, 325–326

for binary files, 335

for shelves, 337

accuracy of prediction in k-NN, 615–616

accuracy_score() method, 615

add_axes() ...

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ISBN: 9781098156688