====== Cookbooks ======
  * [[Python Cookbook]]
  * [[PylabRecipes]]
  * [[Pandas]]

====== IDEs ======



[[https://orf.at/stories/2450240/2450242/|PyCharm]] is our current favourite.  

[[http://code.google.com/p/spyderlib/|Spyder]] is a nice platform-agnostic editor.


====== Shells ======

===== IPython =====

Nice interactive python shell.

Benchmarking runtime can be done just like in bash, by prefixing a command with%time
<code python>
%time (numpy.array(b)==8).sum()
</code>

====== Profiling ======

A very simple and fast way to profile a single-threaded execution is:

<code bash>
# sort profiling result by time
python -m cProfile -s time  my_script.py > profiling
</code>


For further info see e.g. [[http://stackoverflow.com/questions/582336/how-can-you-profile-a-python-script|this Stackoverflow thread]]