Category Archives: python

Python Tips: How to Load Data Into Python

In this post we’ll look at three different ways of how to load data into python. Loading date is the crucial first step before carrying out any data analysis or processing. We’ll look at methods that use just the core python modules, and those that use ‘numpy’, a numerical computing module for python. The script and… Read More »

odtchomper

I’ve made a command line interface for the excellent odtchomp, part of OOMMFTools. OOMMFTools, written by Mark Mascaro, contains ‘odtchomp’ which converts OOMMF odt files into delimited text files. These modified files can be more easily loaded into data plotting/manipulation software. odtchomper is a command line interface to the odtchomp component of OOMMFTools. It was… Read More »

WinPython – a matlab alternative?

Winpython is a project which brings together a number of scientific python programs and modules. For me such programs are always going to struggling to become a complete alternative to Matlab (while I have access to a matlab license at least…). I’ve not used it in anger, but this project does look pretty good. It… Read More »

pylab on Ubuntu

This post explains how I recovered using the standard pylab install in ubuntu after I initially tried to use the Enthought Python Distribution, and broke some packages. I try to install EPD I tried to install the Enthought Python Distribution on Ubuntu (12.04), having had some success with it on windows (and not realising that… Read More »