Python

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Operators esp. exponent and remainder

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+ Addition 4+5
- Subtraction 8-5
* Multiplication 4*5
/ Division 19/3
% Remainder 19%3
** Exponent 2**4 16

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Comments

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Lists

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Modifiable

cats = ['Tom', 'Snappy', 'Kitty', 'Jessie', 'Chester']

cats.append('Catherine')
del cats[1]

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Dictionaries

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Keys, and values

phonebook = {'Andrew Parson':8806336, \
'Emily Everett':6784346, 'Peter Power':7658344}

phonebook['Gingerbread Man'] = 123456

del phonebook['Andrew Parson']

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Tuples

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Python organises those values in a handy, numbered index - starting from zero

months = ('January','February','March','April')

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'while' loop

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a = 0
while a < 10:
a = a + 1
print a

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make/run a program

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open IDLE, click File > New Window, type your program in the new window, then press F5 to run

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Conditionals

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MUST have a colon :

if {conditions}:
{run this code}
elif {conditions}:
{run this code}
elif {conditions}:
{run this code}
else:
{run this code}

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IDLE

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stands for Integrated DeveLopment Environment for Python, which provides both an interpreter shell and a file editor (all platforms)

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Mayavi

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an application for 3-D data visualization based on the VTK engine, with an embedded Python shell

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PyLab

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a mode of the IPython enhanced interactive interpreter shell, which adds support for plotting.

IPython has two main components:

* An enhanced interactive Python shell.
* An architecture for interactive parallel computing.