Scientific Computing with Python 3

Conventions

In this book, you will find a number of text styles that distinguish between different kinds of information. Here are some examples of these styles and an explanation of their meaning.

Code words in text, database table names, folder names, filenames, file extensions, pathnames, and user input are shown as follows: "install additional packages with conda install within your virtual environment"

A block of code is set as follows:

from scipy import *
from matplotlib.pyplot import *

Any command-line input or output is written as follows:

jupyter notebook

New terms and important words are shown in bold. Words that you see on the screen, for example, in menus or dialog boxes, appear in the text like this: "The Jupyter notebook is a fantastic ...