Thanks everyone for the responses - I think I have a better understanding now. I can handle all the messy I/O in Python and use C for the number crunching. I especially like the idea of using python to output the results to excel.
OK time to learn Python i think - any tips on best place to start (tutorials/documentation etc). I have a pretty comprehensive background in C/C++/Java and a bit of experience some other scripting languages so its really a matter of syntax/libraries rather than programming theory/constructs >> see "fluid sim" and "games dev" in the same post, which kind of makes >>me scratch my head. What would you need fluid sim for in a game? sorry i was just listing places I had seem people waxing lyrical on the benefits of python. I am not doing games development - I have just heard lots of games developers saying they use python Thanks again for all the help! Holly -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
