On 10/05/2017 12:00 AM, Thomas Jollans wrote:
On 04/10/17 22:47, Fabien wrote:
On 10/04/2017 10:11 PM, Thomas Jollans wrote:
Be warned, pandas is part of the scientific python stack, which is
immensely powerful and popular, but it does have a distinctive style
that may appear cryptic if you're used to the way the rest of the world
writes Python.
Can you elaborate on this one? As a scientist, I am curious;-)
Sure.
Python is GREAT at iterating. Generators are everywhere. Everyone loves
for loops. List comprehensions and generator expressions are star
features. filter and map are builtins. reduce used be a builtin, even
though almost nobody really understood what it did.
In [1]: import numpy as np
In the world of numpy (and the greater scientific stack), you don't
iterate. You don't write for loops.
Right, now I see what you meant. The first thing I teach to my students
is that loops are evil, and that they should always avoid them when
possible ;-)
Cheers,
Fabien
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