1. Title Center for Coastal and Ocean Mapping NOAA/UNH Joint Hydrographic Center 31-Oct-2006 A Python Tutorial Kurt Schwehr 31 Oct 2006

2. http://docs.python.org/tut/

3. Where is python on my machine?

4. Fink for unix software

5. Fink Commander

6. Emacs Cheat Sheet

7. Setting up ~/.emacs

9. Getting started

10. Strings

11. Getting help with the ‘tab’ key

12. More string operations

13. Lists are created with [ ]

14. The math module

15. Getting help on functions

16. More help

17. from math import *

18. The Decimal module

19. Converting between strings and numbers

20. If tests and indentation matters

21. for loops

22. Reading a file Adding a comma prevents the extra new line

23. Reading numbers from a file