A practical hands-on guide which focuses on interactive programming, numerical computing, and data analysis with IPython. This book is for Python developers who use Python as a scripting language or for software development, and are interested in learning IPython for increasing their productivity during interactive sessions in the console. Knowledge of Python is required, whereas no knowledge of IPython is necessary.
Cyrille Rossant
Cyrille Rossant is a French researcher in quantitative neuroscience. A graduate of the Ecole Normale Supérieure, Paris, he holds a Master's degree and a Ph.D. in Mathematics and Computer Science. He uses IPython every day to model and simulate the brain and to analyze experimental data. He is the creator of a few scientific Python packages, including Playdoh (parallel computing) and Galry (high-performance interactive visualization).