[Tutor] Python tutorials

[Moshe Zadka]

On Mon, 31 Jan 2000, Oscar Chavez wrote:

> Most tutorials' examples are based in operations with strings and 
> text in general. Are there any Python tutorials that stress its math 
> capabilities? In particular, I have noticed that there is a limit on 
> the integers that Python can handle, but I don't know exactly to what 
> extent this can be modified. 

To any extent, by using long integers.

Try the following function:

def fact(n):
	ret = 1L # a Python long integer is a bignum
	for i in range(1, n+1):
		ret = ret * i
	return ret

> I would like to do operations with 
> matrices, factoring integers and floating point operations. Where 
> should I look for help on these matters?

The Numeric module, which is available now somewhere on sourceforge.net. 
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