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Re: suitability of python

From Terry Reedy <tjreedy@udel.edu>
Subject Re: suitability of python
Date 2011-11-24 19:51 -0500
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On 11/24/2011 7:31 AM, Rudra Banerjee wrote:
> Dear friends,
> 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?

The first killer app for Python was running Fortran code from within 
Python. People use Python for both pre- and post-processing. For small 
jobs, this enabled running Fortran interactively.

This lead to Numerical Python, now Numpy, SciPy, and later Sage and 
other scientific and Python packages. I believe SciPy has an f2py 
(fortran to py) module to help with running Fortran under Python (but it 
has been years since I read the details).

Detailed questions might get better answers on, for instance, a scipy list.

-- 
Terry Jan Reedy

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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
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  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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