Monday, July 14, 2014

Useful functions, tutorials, and other Python-related things



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A collection of useful scripts, tutorials, and other Python-related things


// Python tips and tutorials

  • A collection of not so obvious Python stuff you should know! [IPython nb]
  • Python's scope resolution for variable names and the LEGB rule [IPython nb]
  • Key differences between Python 2.x and Python 3.x [IPython nb]
  • A thorough guide to SQLite database operations in Python [Markdown]
  • Unit testing in Python - Why we want to make it a habit [Markdown]
  • Installing Scientific Packages for Python3 on MacOS 10.9 Mavericks [Markdown]
  • Sorting CSV files using the Python csv module [IPython nb]
  • Using Cython with and without IPython magic [IPython nb]
  • Parallel processing via the multiprocessing module [IPython nb]
  • Entry point: Data - using sci-packages to prepare data for Machine Learning tasks and other data analyses [IPython nb]
  • Awesome things that you can do in IPython Notebooks (in progress) [IPython nb]
  • A collection of useful regular expressions [IPython nb]

// Python and the web

  • Creating internal links in IPython Notebooks and Markdown docs [IPython nb]
  • Converting Markdown to HTML and adding Python syntax highlighting [Markdown]

// Algorithms

The algorithms category was moved to a separate GitHub repository rasbt/algorithms_in_ipython_notebooks
  • Sorting Algorithms [IPython nb]
  • Linear regression via the least squares fit method [IPython nb]
  • Dixon's Q test to identify outliers for small sample sizes [IPython nb]
  • Sequential Selection Algorithms [IPython nb]
  • Counting points inside a hypercube [IPython nb]

// Benchmarks

The benchmark category was moved to a separate GitHub repository One-Python-benchmark-per-day
  • 1 - Reversing strings [IPython nb]
  • 2 - Calculating sample means [IPython nb]
  • 3 - 6 different ways to count elements using a dict [IPython nb]
  • 4 - Python vs. Cython vs. Numba [IPython nb]
  • 4.2 - (C)Python compilers - Cython vs. Numba vs. Parakeet [IPython nb]
  • 5 - Comparing 9 ways for flattening lists of sublists [IPython nb]
  • 6 - Determining if a string is a number [IPython nb]
  • 7 - Speeding up NumPy array expressions with Numexpr [IPython nb]
  • 7.2 - Just-in-time compilers for NumPy array expressions [IPython nb]
  • 8 - Calculating square roots and exponents [IPython nb]
  • 9 - The most Pythonic way to check if a string ends with a particular substring [IPython nb]
  • 10 - Cython - Bridging the gap between Python and Fortran [IPython nb]
  • 11 - The deque container data type [IPython nb]
  • 12 - Lightning fast insertion into sorted lists via the bisect module [IPython nb]
  • 13 - Parallel processing via the multiprocessing module [IPython nb]
  • 14 - Python's and NumPy's in-place operator functions [IPython nb]
  • 15 - Array indexing in NumPy: Extracting rows and columns [IPython nb]
  • 16 - Vectorizing a classic for-loop in NumPy [IPython nb]
  • 17 - Stacking NumPy arrays [IPython nb]

// Other

  • Happy Mother's [IPython nb]
  • Numeric matrix manipulation - The cheat sheet for MATLAB, Python NumPy, R, and Julia [Markdown]
  • Python Book Reviews [Markdown]

// Useful scripts and snippets


// Links

// News
  • Python subreddit - my favorite resource to catch up with Python news and great Python-related articles
  • Python community on Google+ - a nice and friendly community to share and discuss everything about Python
  • Python Weekly - A free weekly newsletter featuring curated news, articles, new releases, jobs etc. related to Python
// Resources for learning Python
// My favorite Python projects and packages
  • The IPython Notebook - an interactive computational environment for combining code execution, documentation (with Markdown and LateX support), inline plots, and rich media all in one document.
  • SciPy Stack - Python packages (NumPy, pandas, SciPy, IPython, Matplotlib) for scientific computing
  • Cython - C-extensions for Python, an optimizing static compiler to combine Python and C code
  • Numba - an just-in-time specializing compiler which compiles annotated Python and NumPy code to LLVM (through decorators)
  • scikit-learn - a powerful machine learning library for Python and tools for efficient data mining and analysis

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