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Chapter 4 lists automate the boring stuff with python. I am a 18 year old it student studying at university in. You have probably come across some of those large text books and noticed the index at the end. Notice that the first value in the result is x0, 2, the second is x1, 1, and the. It does what it says on the tin, and it does it really well.
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Scratch programming playground invent with scratch. This document is for an old version of python that is no longer supported. You should upgrade and read the python documentation for the current stable release. On windows, download the python installer the filename will end with. In chapter 2, we looked in detail at methods and tools to access, set, and modify values in numpy arrays.