Scientific Python: A Mature Computational Ecosystem for Microscopy

Over the past decade, the Scientific Python ecosystem has matured into a fully fledged data analysis environment. Python, as a language for science, draws strength from being a general purpose programming language: its ecosystem extends far beyond that of a scientific-only language. For example, Python has high-quality tools that can be used to ingest data from the internet or to control acquisition hardware, process the resulting data, store it in a database, and present it to collaborators via a web application or through interactive notebooks.