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On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 12:47 AM, Algis Kabaila <akabaila@pcug.org.au> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Are there any modules for vector algebra (three dimensional
> vectors, vector addition, subtraction, multiplication [scalar
> and vector]. Could you give me a reference to such module?

Dunno if it has 3D-specific features, but NumPy is the gold standard
for matrix-y stuff in Python:
http://numpy.scipy.org/

And apparently it's even Python 3.1-compatible now; that's quite a feat.

Cheers,
Chris