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NumPy Basics from Purdue Lecture 2012

This document discusses NumPy arrays and lists in Python. NumPy arrays store numerical data of the same type and allow for more efficient operations than regular Python lists since elements are stored contiguously in memory. Python offers many functions to modify lists, such as append to add elements, pop to remove elements, extend to add multiple elements, and slicing to extract sublists. Methods like sort can also modify lists in-place. The notation object.method() represents object-oriented programming in Python, where lists own methods like sort that are called on the list object.

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NumPy Basics from Purdue Lecture 2012

This document discusses NumPy arrays and lists in Python. NumPy arrays store numerical data of the same type and allow for more efficient operations than regular Python lists since elements are stored contiguously in memory. Python offers many functions to modify lists, such as append to add elements, pop to remove elements, extend to add multiple elements, and slicing to extract sublists. Methods like sort can also modify lists in-place. The notation object.method() represents object-oriented programming in Python, where lists own methods like sort that are called on the list object.

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Python Scientific lecture notes, Release 2012.

3 (EuroScipy 2012)

For collections of numerical data that all have the same type, it is often more efficient to use the array type
provided by the numpy module. A NumPy array is a chunk of memory containing fixed-sized items. With
NumPy arrays, operations on elements can be faster because elements are regularly spaced in memory and more
operations are perfomed through specialized C functions instead of Python loops.

Python offers a large panel of functions to modify lists, or query them. Here are a few examples; for more details,
see [Link]
Add and remove elements:
>>> l = [1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> [Link](6)
>>> l
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6]
>>> [Link]()
6
>>> l
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> [Link]([6, 7]) # extend l, in-place
>>> l
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7]
>>> l = l[:-2]
>>> l
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Reverse l:
>>> r = l[::-1]
>>> r
[5, 4, 3, 2, 1]

Concatenate and repeat lists:


>>> r + l
[5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5]
>>> 2 * r
[5, 4, 3, 2, 1, 5, 4, 3, 2, 1]

Sort r (in-place):
>>> [Link]()
>>> r
[1, 2, 3, 4, 5]

Note: Methods and Object-Oriented Programming


The notation [Link]() ([Link](), [Link](3), [Link]()) is our first example of object-oriented
programming (OOP). Being a list, the object r owns the method function that is called using the notation ..
No further knowledge of OOP than understanding the notation . is necessary for going through this tutorial.

Note: Discovering methods:


In IPython: tab-completion (press tab)
In [28]: r.
r.__add__ r.__iadd__ r.__setattr__
r.__class__ r.__imul__ r.__setitem__
r.__contains__ r.__init__ r.__setslice__
r.__delattr__ r.__iter__ r.__sizeof__
r.__delitem__ r.__le__ r.__str__
r.__delslice__ r.__len__ r.__subclasshook__
r.__doc__ r.__lt__ [Link]

2.2. Basic types 12

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