This chapter has introduced only the basics of the Python programming language. You are encouraged to look at the standard Python documentation on the official Python web site (www.python.org) for more information. In addition, you may find it beneficial to work through the online tutorial on the Python web site. A Python reference book will go into more details on object-oriented programming techniques; see “Python resources,” Section 4.2, for a list of Python books.

There are many resources available from the Python community. You should look at the official Python web site (www.python.org) to see the various Python packages that are available publicly. For example, the NumPy package provides array manipulation, FFT, and linear algebra methods.