A series of Python basics, written based on "Learning Python" by Mark Lutz 5ed "Dive into Python 3" by Mark Pilgrim python.org tutorial database ...

You're taking a new programming class this fall, and you don't know anything about code. Python is taught widely in schools, and it's one of the most loved programming languages because it's simple.

It is possible to use generic Python objects as the dtype for a NumPy array, but if you do this, you’ll get no better performance with NumPy than you would with Python generally.