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Re: suitability of python

From Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid>
Newsgroups comp.lang.python
Subject Re: suitability of python
Date 2011-11-27 17:19 +0000
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On 2011-11-24, Rudra Banerjee <bnrj.rudra@gmail.com> wrote:

> I am a newbie in python and basically i use python for postprocessing
> like plotting, data manipulation etc.
> Based on ease of programming on python I am wondering if I can consider
> it for the main development as well. My jobs (written on fortran) runs
> for weeks and quite CPU intensive. How python works on these type of
> heavy computation?

You'll have to tell us what "these type of heavy computation" are
before we can answer.  There are a _lot_ of heavy-duty computational
libraries (many of them written in FORTAN) that have been interfaced
to Python (BLAS and so on).  If the heavy lifting can be done by those
libraries, Python might be very suitable.

You might want to check out scipy, Scientific Python, and the
Enthought python distro.

http://www.scipy.org/
http://dirac.cnrs-orleans.fr/plone/software/scientificpython/overview/
http://www.enthought.com/products/epd.php

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suitability of python Rudra Banerjee <bnrj.rudra@gmail.com> - 2011-11-24 18:01 +0530
  Re: suitability of python Laurent Claessens <moky.math@gmail.com> - 2011-11-24 13:46 +0100
  Re: suitability of python Dave Angel <d@davea.name> - 2011-11-24 08:08 -0500
  Re: suitability of python Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu> - 2011-11-24 19:51 -0500
    Re: suitability of python 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-11-24 19:27 -0800
    Re: suitability of python 88888 Dihedral <dihedral88888@googlemail.com> - 2011-11-24 19:27 -0800
    Re: suitability of python alex23 <wuwei23@gmail.com> - 2011-11-24 19:37 -0800
  Re: suitability of python Alan Meyer <ameyer2@yahoo.com> - 2011-11-24 23:06 -0500
  Re: suitability of python Grant Edwards <invalid@invalid.invalid> - 2011-11-27 17:19 +0000
  Re: suitability of python Stefan Behnel <stefan_ml@behnel.de> - 2011-11-27 17:54 +0000

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