SciPy Cookbook
This is the “SciPy Cookbook” — a collection of various user-contributed recipes, which once lived under wiki.scipy.org. Note that some are fairly old (2005–2009), and may not be as relevant today. If you want to contribute additions/corrections, see the the SciPy-CookBook repository.
Compiling Extensions
Compiling Extension Modules on Windows using mingw
Graphics
Line Integral Convolution Mayavi Vtk volume rendering
Input Output
Data Acquisition with NIDAQmx Data acquisition with PyUL Fortran I/O Formats Input and output LAS reader Reading SPE file from CCD camera Reading mat files hdf5 in Matlab
Matplotlib / 3D Plotting
Matplotlib VTK integration Matplotlib: mplot3d
Matplotlib / Embedding Plots in Apps
Embedding In Wx Matplotlib: pyside Matplotlib: scrolling plot
Matplotlib / Misc
Load image Matplotlib: adjusting image size Matplotlib: compiling matplotlib on solaris10 Matplotlib: deleting an existing data series Matplotlib: django Matplotlib: interactive plotting Matplotlib: matplotlib and zope Matplotlib: multiple subplots with one axis label Matplotlib: qt with ipython and designer Matplotlib: using matplotlib in a CGI script
Matplotlib / Pseudo Color Plots
Matplotlib: colormap transformations Matplotlib: converting a matrix to a raster image Matplotlib: gridding irregularly spaced data Matplotlib: loading a colormap dynamically Matplotlib: plotting images with special values Matplotlib: show colormaps
Matplotlib / Simple Plotting
Matplotlib: animations Matplotlib: arrows Matplotlib: bar charts Matplotlib: custom log labels Matplotlib: hint on diagrams Matplotlib: legend Matplotlib: maps Matplotlib: multicolored line Matplotlib: multiline plots Matplotlib: plotting values with masked arrays Matplotlib: shaded regions Matplotlib: sigmoidal functions Matplotlib: thick axes Matplotlib: transformations Matplotlib: unfilled histograms
Matplotlib / Typesetting
Matplotlib: latex examples Matplotlib: using tex
Mayavi
Mayavi surf Mayavi tips Mayavi: running mayavi 2 Scripting Mayavi 2
Mayavi / TVTK
Numpy & Scipy / Advanced topics
Numpy & Scipy / Interpolation
Interpolation Using radial basis functions for smoothing/interpolation
Numpy & Scipy / Linear Algebra
Rank and nullspace of a matrix
Numpy & Scipy / Matplotlib
Numpy & Scipy / Optimization and fitting techniques
Fitting data Large-scale bundle adjustment in scipy Least squares circle Linear regression OLS Optimization and fit demo Optimization demo RANSAC Robust nonlinear regression in scipy Solving a discrete boundary-value problem in scipy
Numpy & Scipy / Ordinary differential equations
Coupled spring-mass system Korteweg de Vries equation Matplotlib: lotka volterra tutorial Modeling a Zombie Apocalypse Theoretical ecology: Hastings and Powell
Numpy & Scipy / Other examples
Applying a FIR filter Brownian Motion Butterworth Bandpass Communication theory Correlated Random Samples Easy multithreading Eye Diagram FIR filter Filtfilt Finding the Convex Hull of a 2-D Dataset Finding the minimum point in the convex hull of a finite set of points Frequency swept signals KDTree example Kalman filtering Linear classification Particle filter Rebinning Savitzky Golay Filtering Smoothing of a 1D signal Solving large Markov Chains Watershed
Numpy & Scipy / Root finding
Function intersections Spherical Bessel Zeros
Numpy & Scipy / Tips and tricks
Addressing Array Columns by Name Building arrays Convolution-like operations Indexing numpy arrays MetaArray Multidot Object arrays using record arrays Stride tricks for the Game of Life accumarray like function
Other examples
C Extensions for Using NumPy Arrays Embedding in Traits GUI Matplotlib: drag’n’drop text example Matplotlib: treemap Mayavi: Install python stuff from source Mayavi: examples Reading custom text files with Pyparsing Scripting Mayavi 2: basic modules Scripting Mayavi 2: filters Scripting Mayavi 2: main modules
Performance
A beginners guide to using Python for performance computing Parallel Programming with numpy and scipy
Scientific GUIs
Scientific Scripts
FDTD Algorithm Applied to the Schrödinger Equation
Using NumPy With Other Languages (Advanced)
C extensions Ctypes F2py Inline Weave With Basic Array Conversion (no Blitz) Pyrex And NumPy SWIG Numpy examples SWIG and Numpy SWIG memory deallocation f2py and numpy
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A numerical agnostic pyrex class Array, struct, and Pyrex Data Frames Python Imaging Library Recipes for timeseries The FortranFile class dbase xplt