## Prerequisites (what you have to know)

If you wonder how to compile Gildas with the Python binding activated, please refer to section .

Subsections

- Python basics
  - Identifiers
  - Multidimensional-array arrangement in memory
  - The vars() built-in function
  - The dir() built-in function
  - The __doc__ attribute
  - Global/local variables and module name spaces
- NumPy basics
  - Attributes
  - Methods
  - Functions
  - Subarrays and derivates