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. Unstable packages are generally pretty stable

7. Emacs Cheat Sheet

8. Setting up ~/.emacs

10. Getting started

11. Strings

12. Getting help with the ‘tab’ key

13. More string operations

14. Lists are created with [ ]

15. The math module

16. Getting help on functions

17. More help

18. from math import *

19. The Decimal module

20. Converting between strings and numbers

21. If tests and indentation matters

22. for loops

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

24. Reading numbers from a file

25. A quick intro to time

26. Getting to the web documentation

28. Writing data to a file

29. Old school - gnuplot

30. Gnuplot in 3D

31. Saving gnuplot to gif or pdf

32. Writing a python file (aka module) env finds python in your path chmod +x dump.py./dump.py

33. Handling programs in a better way __name__ is set to main if the file is being executed

34. Making our code a proper function

35. Function parameters can be specified by name

36. Use this function from outside the file Whoops - no documentation!

37. Often it is good to give a parameter a default

38. Add some ‘doc strings’

39. Documentation as seen from ipython

40. Epydoc is Kurt’s favorite way to document python code Epydoc imports your file and creates html documentation

41. Here is the initial edydoc page Nice, but could be better Use markups in the doc string to tell epydoc more

42. Adding more to the file

43. Document the function

44. Add command line options

45. Plotting data with Gnuplot-py