On Mar 26, 9:20 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > OK... > I've been told that Both Fortran and Python are easy to read, and are > quite useful in creating scientific apps for the number crunching, but > then Python is a tad slower than Fortran because of its a high level > language nature, so what are the advantages of using Python for > creating number crunching apps over Fortran?? > Thanks > Chris
The standard way is to perform the number crunching in Fortran and to use Python as glue. See for instance the scipy project, which includes the f2py bridge. Michele Simionato -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
