Python tricks.md

Python tricks

Naming

programname.py (eventually program_name.py) tutto minuscolo.

variable, variablename, variable_name

function, functionname, function_name

Class, ClassName

CONSTANT, MAX_CONSTANT

Plotting

• A good way to insert figures in Latex with no white borders. Good both for pdf and png saving:

  .savefig(...,pad_inches=0)

• To reverse a logscale just use: ax1.set_xlim((max,min)) with max and min in the reverse order. This also flips the tickmarks!

• A very useful instruction

  plt.setup()

• fig.suptitle('Create figure title')

• array[::2] takes every other element in an array.

To Learn

• try statement
• Classes
• multiprocessing