python newbie

Newsgroups	comp.lang.python
Date	2014-06-18 05:10 -0700
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Subject	python newbie
From	Maura E Monville <maura.monville@gmail.com>

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My supervisor has palmed me off with a python code, written by a collaborator, which implements an algorithm aimed at denoising the dose distribution (energy per unit mass) output from a radiation transport Monte Carlo code.
My task is to translate the python code into a MatLab code.
A colleague of mine and I stared at the python code for a while without understanding the logic. 
To me that code looks like Chinese or Arabian.
I don't have clear ideas about the syntax and python variables. For instance, in MatLab there is the cell array storage type to host data of different type. I have no idea how a 3D matrix can be loaded through python.
Does a debugger exist for python code ?
Is there an easy concise user's manual ?

Thank you in advance for any help.
Regards,
maura

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python newbie Maura E Monville <maura.monville@gmail.com> - 2014-06-18 05:10 -0700
  Re: python newbie Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2014-06-18 12:50 +0000
    Re: python newbie Maura E Monville <maura.monville@gmail.com> - 2014-06-18 05:57 -0700
  Re: python newbie Jim Gibson <jimsgibson@gmail.com> - 2014-06-18 12:11 -0700

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