Skip to Content
Python Tools for Scientists
book

Python Tools for Scientists

by Lee Vaughan
January 2023
Intermediate to advanced
472 pages
17h 59m
English
No Starch Press
Content preview from Python Tools for Scientists

PART III THE ANACONDA ECOSYSTEM

The Python scientific ecosystem is robust, which means it attempts to satisfy the same needs in multiple ways. As discussed in this book’s introduction, this can lead to a bewildering maze of packages and tools for users to negotiate. It’s easy to become overwhelmed by the literally thousands of Python packages available to you through conda and conda-forge.

Fortunately, only a few packages are considered essential to scientific work. These libraries form the basic Python ecosystem for scientific research and are shown, with a few overlapping, ancillary, and competing libraries, in Figure III-1 (PyCharm and Spyder, for example, are similar programming tools available through Anaconda).

At the core of this ecosystem ...

Become an O’Reilly member and get unlimited access to this title plus top books and audiobooks from O’Reilly and nearly 200 top publishers, thousands of courses curated by job role, 150+ live events each month,
and much more.

Read now

Unlock full access

More than 5,000 organizations count on O’Reilly

AirBnbBlueOriginElectronic ArtsHomeDepotNasdaqRakutenTata Consultancy Services

QuotationMarkO’Reilly covers everything we've got, with content to help us build a world-class technology community, upgrade the capabilities and competencies of our teams, and improve overall team performance as well as their engagement.
Julian F.
Head of Cybersecurity
QuotationMarkI wanted to learn C and C++, but it didn't click for me until I picked up an O'Reilly book. When I went on the O’Reilly platform, I was astonished to find all the books there, plus live events and sandboxes so you could play around with the technology.
Addison B.
Field Engineer
QuotationMarkI’ve been on the O’Reilly platform for more than eight years. I use a couple of learning platforms, but I'm on O'Reilly more than anybody else. When you're there, you start learning. I'm never disappointed.
Amir M.
Data Platform Tech Lead
QuotationMarkI'm always learning. So when I got on to O'Reilly, I was like a kid in a candy store. There are playlists. There are answers. There's on-demand training. It's worth its weight in gold, in terms of what it allows me to do.
Mark W.
Embedded Software Engineer

You might also like

Practical Data Science with Python

Practical Data Science with Python

Nathan George
Python One-Liners

Python One-Liners

Christian Mayer
Python for Geeks

Python for Geeks

Muhammad Asif

Publisher Resources

ISBN: 9781098156688