Introduction to Python part I

This chapter serves getting us all on the same page regarding Python basics, Jupyter notebooks and basic data structures including images.

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Contents

In order to focus on what’s important here, we will work on these five topics:

• Basic types

• Indexing

• Images as numpy arrays

• Masking and logical indexing

See also

If you want to take a deeper dive into Python, we recommend the following resources:

• Basic math in Python

• Pitfalls in Jupyter

• Lists vs Tuples

• Sorting lists

• Dictionaries and tables