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Re: help: confused about python flavors....

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On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 20:06:37 -0800 (PST), amar Singh
<jagteraho2006@gmail.com> declaimed the following in
gmane.comp.python.general:

> Hi,
> 
> I am confused between plain python, numpy, scipy, pylab, matplotlib.
> 
> I have high familiarity with matlab, but the computer I use does not
> have it. So moving to python.
> What should I use? and the best way to use it. I will be running
> matlab-like scripts sometimes on the shell prompt and sometimes on the
> command line.
> 

	If Matlab compatibility is a high constraint, I'll speak heresy and
suggest you might look at Octave
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Octave

	Python is stand-alone programming/scripting language. Numpy is an
extension package adding array/matrix math operations but the syntax
won't be a direct match to Matlab; Scipy is an extension package that,
well, extends Numpy. Matplotlib is a separate package for graphical
plotting of array data. {simplistic explanation}

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	Wulfraed                 Dennis Lee Bieber         AF6VN
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help: confused about python flavors.... amar Singh <jagteraho2006@gmail.com> - 2012-03-06 20:06 -0800
  Re: help: confused about python flavors.... Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python@pearwood.info> - 2012-03-07 06:24 +0000
    Re: help: confused about python flavors.... Mark Lawrence <breamoreboy@yahoo.co.uk> - 2012-03-07 09:15 +0000
  Re: help: confused about python flavors.... Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfraed@ix.netcom.com> - 2012-03-07 09:41 -0500
    Re: help: confused about python flavors.... amar Singh <jagteraho2006@gmail.com> - 2012-03-07 09:16 -0800

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