A Whirlwind Tour of Python
Jake VanderPlas
This website contains the full text of my free O'Reilly report, A Whirlwind Tour of Python.
A Whirlwind Tour of Python is a fast-paced introduction to essential features of the Python language, aimed at researchers and developers who are already familiar with programming in another language. The material is particularly designed for those who wish to use Python for data science and/or scientific programming, and in this capacity serves as an introduction to my longer book, The Python Data Science Handbook.
The content is also available on Github in the form of Jupyter Notebooks, or from O'Reilly site as a free e-book or free pdf.
This material is released under the "No Rights Reserved" CC0 license, and thus you are free to re-use, modify, build-on, and enhance this material for any purpose.
Index¶
- Introduction
- How to Run Python Code
- Basic Python Syntax
- Python Semantics: Variables
- Python Semantics: Operators
- Built-In Scalar Types
- Built-In Data Structures
- Control Flow Statements
- Defining Functions
- Errors and Exceptions
- Iterators
- List Comprehensions
- Generators and Generator Expressions
- Modules and Packages
- Strings and Regular Expressions
- Preview of Data Science Tools
- Resources for Further Learning
- Appendix: Code To Reproduce Figures
License¶
This material is released under the "No Rights Reserved" CC0 license, and thus you are free to re-use, modify, build-on, and enhance this material for any purpose.
That said, I request (but do not require) that if you use or adapt this material, you include a proper attribution and/or citation; for example
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