I'm a student who's considering doing a project for a Machine Learning class on pathing (bots learning to run through a maze). The language primarily used by the class has been Matlab. I would prefer to do the bulk of the project in python because I'm familiar with pygame (for the visuals) but I already have a lot of AI code written in Matlab.
I'd like to be able to call Matlab code from within python. I'm not sure this is possible. My code runs in Octave just fine.
There have been some bridges between Matlab and Python, but most of them are old, I believe.
http://claymore.engineer.gvsu.edu/~steriana/Python/pymat.html
If you're on Windows, this may help:
http://www.geocities.com/ptmcg/python/using_matlab_from_python.html
I've heard about numerical python and scipy, but I'm not sure what tool is going to mean the least amount of recoding for me. At the very least I need to find a really fast package for matrix operations.
That would be Numeric and scipy. You'll probably need Numeric anyways for pygame. scipy has a set of functions that try to mimic Matlab functionality with the same names, so that may help in translating the code.
Anyone have any input on what the best tool for the job would be? I've googled, but I figure it's best to ask experience ;)
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