Computational science

Python is fast becoming the go-to language for computational science

Python has become one of the key languages used in science. There is a huge number of packages available to handle almost any task that you may have and, importantly, Python knows what it isn’t good at. To deal with this, Python has been designed to easily incorporate code from C or FORTRAN. This way, you can offl oad any heavy computations to more efficient code. The core package of most of the scientific code available is numpy. One of the problems in Python is that the object oriented nature of the language is the source of its inefficiencies. With no strict types, Python always needs to check parameters on every operation. Numpy provides a new datatype, the array, which helps solve some of these issues. Arrays can only hold…

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