OVERVIEW OF PYTHON
Rebekah B. Esmaili · Special publications · 2021
Python is a free and open-source programming language. There are over 200,000 packages registered online that expand Python's capabilities. This chapter provides a description of some useful packages for the Earth sciences. Some of these useful packages include NumPy, Pandas, Matplotlib, netCDF4, h5py, Cartopy, and xarray. These packages have a strong development base and a large community of support, making them appropriate for scientific investigation.