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On 18/05/2014 14:25, Roy Smith wrote:
> In article <53783c5f$0$29977$c3e8da3$5496439d@news.astraweb.com>,
>   Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> wrote:
>
>> You may find that the IPython interactive interface to Python is useful.
>> It presents an interface which should be familiar to anyone with
>> experience with Mathematica.
>
> I second the IPython suggestion.  I don't use it that often, but when
> I'm doing interactive number crunching, it's my tool of choice.  The
> ability to interactively go back and edit some block of code, then
> re-execute it, is really handy when exploring a dataset.  And the tight
> integration of graphing/plotting libraries is awesome.
>

Big +1 from me.

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My fellow Pythonistas, ask not what our language can do for you, ask 
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Mark Lawrence

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