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

// Python tips and tutorials

Python tips and tutorials [back to top]

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]

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]

Quick guide for dealing with missing numbers in NumPy [IPython nb]

A random collection of useful Python snippets [IPython nb]

Things in pandas I wish I'd had known earlier [IPython nb]

Python and the web [back to top]

Creating internal links in IPython Notebooks and Markdown docs [IPython nb]

Converting Markdown to HTML and adding Python syntax highlighting [Markdown]

Algorithms and Data Structures [back to top]

This category has been moved to a separate GitHub repository rasbt/algorithms_in_ipython_notebooks

Sorting Algorithms [Collection of IPython Notebooks

Linear regression via the least squares fit method [IPython nb]

Dixon's Q test to identify outliers for small sample sizes [IPython nb]

Counting points inside a hypercube [IPython nb]

Singly Linked List [ IPython nbviewer ]

Plotting and Visualization [back to top]

The matplotlib-gallery in IPython notebooks has been moved to a separate GitHub repository matplotlib-
gallery
Featured articles:

Preparing Plots for Publication [IPython nb]

Benchmarks [back to top]

Simple tricks to speed up the sum calculation in pandas [IPython nb]

More benchmarks can be found in the separate GitHub repository One-Python-benchmark-per-day

Featured articles:

(C)Python compilers - Cython vs. Numba vs. Parakeet [IPython nb]

Just-in-time compilers for NumPy array expressions [IPython nb]

Cython - Bridging the gap between Python and Fortran [IPython nb]

Parallel processing via the multiprocessing module [IPython nb]

Vectorizing a classic for-loop in NumPy [IPython nb]

Python and "Data Science" [back to top]

The "data science"-related posts have been moved to a separate GitHub repository pattern_classification

Featured articles:

Entry Point: Data - Using Python's sci-packages to prepare data for Machine Learning tasks and
other data analyses [IPython nb]

About Feature Scaling: Standardization and Min-Max-Scaling (Normalization) [IPython nb]

Principal Component Analysis (PCA) [IPython nb]

Linear Discriminant Analysis (LDA) [IPython nb]

Kernel density estimation via the Parzen-window technique [IPython nb]

Useful scripts and snippets [back to top]

Shell script For prepending Python-shebangs to .py files.

A random string generator function.

Converting large CSV files to SQLite databases using pandas.

Sparsifying a matrix by zeroing out all elements but the top k elements in a row using NumPy.

Other [back to top]

Python book reviews

Links [back to top]

PyPI - the Python Package Index - The official repository for all open source Python modules and
packages.

PEP 8 - The official style guide for Python code.

PEP 257 - Python's official docstring conventions; pep257 - Python style guide checker

// 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

Dive Into Python / Dive Into Python 3 - A free Python book for experienced programmers.
 The Hitchhiker’s Guide to Python - A free best-practice handbook for both novices and experts.

Think Python - How to Think Like a Computer Scientist - An introduction for beginners starting with
basic concepts of programming.

A Byte of Python - a free book on programming using the Python language.

Python Patterns - A directory of proven, reusable solutions to common programming problems.

Intro to Computer Science - Build a Search Engine & a Social Network - A great, free course for
learning Python if you haven't programmed before.

// 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.

matplotlib - Python's favorite plotting library.

NumPy - A library for multi-dimensional arrays and matrices, along with a large library of high-level
mathematical functions to operate on these arrays.

SciPy - A library that provides various useful functions for numerical computing, such as modules
for optimization, linear algebra, integration, interpolation, ...

pandas - High-performance, easy-to-use data structures and data analysis tools build on top of
NumPy.

Cython - C-extensions for Python, an optimizing static compiler to combine Python and C code.

Numba - A 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.