thanks for feedback. i agree with you. i haven't really worked with python. for me scilab feels more coherent, at least psychologically. maybe because it is developed by one entity whereas python for scientific computation is a collection of separate projects.<br>
<br>i want to mention that there is the python(x,y) project which tries to provide an all-in-one solution for scientific development. this project includes the spyder IDE which is similar to matlab and scilab GUI (i.e. display variables, code completion, history, etc.) the spyder IDE can be installed alone. however, the pythonxy (about 400MB) installs scientific libraries and other dependencies.<br>
<br><br><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Mon, Nov 8, 2010 at 5:59 AM, Mathieu Dubois <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mathieu.dubois@limsi.fr">mathieu.dubois@limsi.fr</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
Hello,<br>
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I have used Numpy and been very seduced by it:<br>
- first, Python is a general, object-oriented language with many libraries and so one can do more than just data processing scripts; a growing number of scientific projects provide C/C++ library with a python binding (see <a href="http://neuralensemble.org/trac/PyNN/" target="_blank">http://neuralensemble.org/trac/PyNN/</a> for instance)<br>
- second, the default data-type in Numpy is a multi-dimensional array and most algorithms can be used on it<br>
- third, the API is coherent and well-documented<br>
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Nevertheless Scilab has it's own strength. I have projects in scilab and I never felt that switching to python was necessary.<br>
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I was wondering if one could use scilab (especially the upcoming 6 family) as a core python interpreter (this would be nice to have a grid enabled python).<br>
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My 2 cents.<div><div></div><div class="h5"><br>
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On 11/08/2010 11:41 AM, Process Control wrote:<br>
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hello everyone,<br>
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not exactly a python vs scilab question. i just wanted to know if anyone can share their thoughts about python(scipy/numpy/etc.) from a scilab user's point of view<br>
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regards<br>
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