title: Getting started with numpy or scipy?
body: <p>I went through the descriptions of <code>numpy</code> and <code>scipy</code> as recommended by helpful contributors in the earlier posts. </p>
  
  <p>Since I am a beginner in Python, would you please assist me on this: for example, I have a file (<code>stats1.txt</code>) in a folder <code>c:\\programming</code>; this .txt file has one column with 1000 values; now I would like to get descriptive statistics of these values (mean, median, max, min, std). </p>
  
  <p>How do I begin writing a code using <code>numpy</code> or <code>scipy</code> to execute the result in either the same file or a new text file? </p>