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LES python seminar series (Thursday, 10:30 - 12:00, Geomatikum, 1729)

contact: Alex Loew, Julia Pongratz

Contents

What you should be able to do in advance

python programming structures
if clauses
function calling
print statements
well, running python scripts (in python shell and interactive shell like ipython)
edit python scripts in the editor of your choice
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* subplots, figure, axis objects; easy and more sophisticated appraoches

always use figure/ax
a brief tour through matplotlib gallery
- lineplots
- fill_between
- contour plots
nice colorbars, colormaps handling etc.
working with different axes in a single plot; twinx()
saving figures
- fitting to actual content
tight_layout

PyNio - handling netCDF
- read netCDF
- write netCDF
  - data type conversion
    - how to write a numpy array (double) in a float netcdf variable?
    - how to store data as scaled integers?
GDAL: the door to a huge number of different file formats. GDAL (Python) API tutorial
Basemap
PyNGL Tutorial

general structure of python scripts
writing python functions, what are the keyworded and the non-keyworded arguments
writing modules and classes, why and how to create custom objects
naming convention
how to parse command line input for options and arguments

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