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IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook

IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook

By : Cyrille Rossant
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IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook

IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook

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By: Cyrille Rossant

Overview of this book

Python is one of the leading open source platforms for data science and numerical computing. IPython and the associated Jupyter Notebook offer efficient interfaces to Python for data analysis and interactive visualization, and they constitute an ideal gateway to the platform. IPython Interactive Computing and Visualization Cookbook, Second Edition contains many ready-to-use, focused recipes for high-performance scientific computing and data analysis, from the latest IPython/Jupyter features to the most advanced tricks, to help you write better and faster code. You will apply these state-of-the-art methods to various real-world examples, illustrating topics in applied mathematics, scientific modeling, and machine learning. The first part of the book covers programming techniques: code quality and reproducibility, code optimization, high-performance computing through just-in-time compilation, parallel computing, and graphics card programming. The second part tackles data science, statistics, machine learning, signal and image processing, dynamical systems, and pure and applied mathematics.
Table of Contents (17 chapters)
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Wrapping a C library in Python with ctypes


Wrapping a C library in Python allows us to leverage existing C code or to implement a critical part of the code in a fast language such as C.

It is relatively easy to use externally-compiled libraries with Python. The first possibility is to call a command-line executable with the os.system() command, but this method does not extend to compiled libraries.

A more powerful method consists of using a native Python module called ctypes. This module allows us to call functions defined in a compiled library (written in C) from Python. The ctypes module takes care of data type conversions between C and Python. In addition, the numpy.ctypeslib module provides facilities to use NumPy arrays wherever data buffers are used in the external library.

In this example, we will rewrite the code of the Mandelbrot fractal in C, compile it in a shared library, and call it from Python.

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The code in this recipe is written for Unix systems and has been tested...

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