David Abel

Python Tutorial

This tutorial is intended as an introduction to Python for folks with some prior programming experience.

First, you can download the zip file of all stencil code here.

Install python here (this tutorial assumes version 2.7.*).

For the duration of the tutorial, code blocks preceeded by three carrots indicate that we're working directly in the python interpreter, where lines without carrots indicate the output, e.g.:

Whereas a code block without these carrots indicate that we're working in a file, e.g.:

Which we can then run by telling the python interpreter to interpret the file from a *nix shell (or cygwin on windows):

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