Pipes

[Laura Creighton]

The O'Reilly book Effective Computation in Physics that Larry Hudson
recommended looks really good.  It also occurs to me that another way
to get familiar with the scientific python world is to attend a
Scientific Python conference.  EuroSciPy is the end of this month in
Cambridge. https://www.euroscipy.org/2015/

The US conference for 2015 was in July, so you missed it, but there
will be one next year.  I just don't know when.
There is one in India in December. http://scipy.in/2015
The next Latin America conference is in Brazil in May 2016.

I may have missed some conferences.

Good luck,
Laura