Python training

Author

Nicolas Barrier, IRD, UMR Marbec (www.nicolasbarrier.fr/)

How to use class materials

Download and install Anaconda for Python 3.

Create a Conda environment as follows:

conda create --name python-training
conda activate python-training

When done, open a Terminal and install the libraries:

conda install -c conda-forge -y netCDF4
conda install -c conda-forge -y xarray
conda install -c conda-forge -y dask
conda install -c conda-forge -y pandas
conda install -c conda-forge -y jupytext
conda install -c conda-forge -y jupyter
conda install -c conda-forge -y cartopy
conda install -c conda-forge -y shapefile
conda install -c conda-forge -y eofs
conda install -c conda-forge -y nc-time-axis
conda install -c conda-forge -y python-graphviz

Now, navigate to the folder containing the training sessions and type:

jupyter notebook &

Then open/run/annotate the file at will.

Program

Introduction

• Introduction (introduction/intro.py) (description, applications)
• Getting started (introduction/start.py) (install, running)
• Installing libraries (introduction/libinstall.py)

Data types

• Variable definition (data_types/vars.py)
• Numerical variables (data_types/numerics.py)
• List (data_types/list.py)
• Dictionaries (data_types/dict.py)
• String (data_types/string.py)
• Numpy arrays (data_types/nmp.py) (Scipy, Numpy libraries)

Conditional statements, loops, functions (blocks)

• Conditional statements (blocks/ifsta.py)
• Loops (blocks/loops.py)
• Functions (blocks/functions.py)

Graphics (Matplotlib(https://matplotlib.org/))

• XY (plots/xy.py)
• Contours (plots/contours.py)
• Geometrical shapes (plots/geometrical_shapes.py)
• Panels (plots/panels.py)
• Quivers (plots/quivers.py)
• Scatter plots (plots/scatters.py)
• Text and maths (plots/text.py)
• Axes management (plots/axes.py)
• Configutation (plots/pyplot_settings.py)

Object oriented programming

• Class definition (oop/oop.py)

IO

• Text (io/text.py)
• CSV (io/pand.py) (pandas)
• NetCDF (io/xar.py) (xarray)

Maps

• Cartopy (maps/carto.py)