TY - BOOK ID - 5343490 TI - Python scripting for computational science PY - 2004 VL - 3 SN - 3540435085 3662054523 3662054507 PB - Berlin ; London : Springer, DB - UniCat KW - Python (Computer program language) KW - Python (Langage de programmation) KW - Science KW - 681.3*D3 KW - 681.3*G4 KW - Electronic data processing KW - Scripting languages (Computer science) KW - Data processing. KW - Programming languages KW - Mathematical software: algorithm analysis; certification and testing; efficiency; portability; reliability and robustness; verification KW - 681.3*G4 Mathematical software: algorithm analysis; certification and testing; efficiency; portability; reliability and robustness; verification KW - 681.3*D3 Programming languages KW - Data processing KW - Computer mathematics. KW - Physics. KW - Software engineering. KW - Computational intelligence. KW - Computational Science and Engineering. KW - Numerical and Computational Physics, Simulation. KW - Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems. KW - Computational Intelligence. KW - Intelligence, Computational KW - Artificial intelligence KW - Soft computing KW - Computer software engineering KW - Engineering KW - Natural philosophy KW - Philosophy, Natural KW - Physical sciences KW - Dynamics KW - Computer mathematics KW - Mathematics KW - Langages de programmation KW - Programming languages (Electronic computers) KW - Ordinateurs KW - Python (langage de programmation) KW - Programmation. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:5343490 AB - The primary purpose of this book is to help scientists and engineers work­ ing intensively with computers to become more productive, have more fun, and increase the reliability of their investigations. Scripting in the Python programming language can be a key tool for reaching these goals [27,29]. The term scripting means different things to different people. By scripting I mean developing programs of an administering nature, mostly to organize your work, using languages where the abstraction level is higher and program­ ming is more convenient than in Fortran, C, C++, or Java. Perl, Python, Ruby, Scheme, and Tel are examples of languages supporting such high-level programming or scripting. To some extent Matlab and similar scientific com­ puting environments also fall into this category, but these environments are mainly used for computing and visualization with built-in tools, while script­ ing aims at gluing a range of different tools for computing, visualization, data analysis, file/directory management, user interfaces, and Internet communi­ cation. So, although Matlab is perhaps the scripting language of choiee in computational science today, my use of the term scripting goes beyond typi­ cal Matlab scripts. Python stands out as the language of choice for scripting in computational science because of its very elean syntax, rieh modulariza­ tion features, good support for numerical computing, and rapidly growing popularity. What Scripting is About. ER -