Python Scripting for Computational Science

By: Hans Petter Langtangen

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Hardcover | 9 January 2009 | Edition Number 3

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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.

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"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 fuer Mathematik, Vol. 151 (4), 2007)

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Introduction	p. 1
Getting Started with Python Scripting	p. 27
Basic Python	p. 73
Numerical Computing in Python	p. 131
Combining Python with Fortran, C, and C++	p. 189
Introduction to GUI Programming	p. 227
Web Interfaces and CGI Programming	p. 295
Advanced Python	p. 319
Fortran Programming with NumPy Arrays	p. 451
C and C++ Programming with NumPy Arrays	p. 483
More Advanced GUI Programming	p. 529
Tools and Examples	p. 605
Setting up the Required Software Environment	p. 677
Elements of Software Engineering	p. 689
Bibliography	p. 739
Index	p. 741
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