Table of Contents

1 Introduction.- 2 Installation.- 3 Language Basics.- 4 Data Containers.- 5 Dates and Times.- 6 Call Python Functions from MATLAB.- 7 Input and Output.- 8 Interacting with the File System.- 9 Interacting with the Operating System and External Executables.- 10 Object Oriented Programming.- 11 NumPy and SciPy.- 12 Plotting.- 13 Tables and Dataframes.- 14 High Performance Computing.- 15 Language Pitfalls.- Appendix A MATLAB/Python Recipe Index.- Appendix B Generating Sample Data with Faker.- Appendix C Finite Element Source Listing.- Appendix D Python-to-MATLAB and MATLAB-to-Python Variable Converters.- Appendix E A Utility to Patch Cartopy to Use Requests.

About the Author

Albert Danial is an aerospace engineer with 30 years of experience, currently working for Northrop Grumman near Los Angeles. Before Northrop Grumman, he was a member of the NASTRAN Numerical Methods team at MSC Software and a systems analyst at SPARTA. He has a Bachelor of Aerospace Engineering degree from the Georgia Institute of Technology, and Masters and Ph.D. degrees in Aeronautics and Astronautics from Purdue University. He is the author of cloc, the open source code counter.
Al has used MATLAB since 1990 and Python since 2006 for algorithm prototyping, earth science data processing, spacecraft mission planning, optimization, visualization, and countless utilities that simplify daily engineering work.