Python training

Training for beginners in Python.

Content

0. Python: the programming language

This part is a general introduction to the Python 3 programming language.

It covers:

• Available primitives, basic operations and containers (list, tuple, dictionary, iterator)
• Control structures: if/then/else, for and while loops
• Defining functions and modules

1. Array manipulation using NumPy

This part is an introduction to the numpy library.

It covers:

• the creation of numpy arrays,
• access and manipulation of such arrays, and
• an overview of the different features available in numpy.

2. Accessing ESRF data files: HDF5, specfile, EDF

This part provides:

• an introduction to HDF5, EDF and spec file formats, and
• a presentation of the h5py, silx and fabio libraries to read and write such files.

Dependencies

The content of the training depends on:

• Python 3.x
• numpy
• h5py
• fabio
• silx
• matplotlib

To run the notebooks and display the slides, you need:

• jupyter
• rise

How-to install rise:

pip install rise
jupyter-nbextension install rise --py --sys-prefix
jupyter-nbextension enable rise --py --sys-prefix