In article <mailman.5967.1229898197.3487.python-l...@python.org>, "James Mills" <prolo...@shortcircuit.net.au> wrote:
> In case anyone is not aware, Python is > also used for heavy scientific computational > problems, games such as Civilisation and > others, and I believe (correct me if I"m wrong) > it's also used by NASA. > > --JamesMills Python has become very popular in scientific computation. You'll find it in use lots of places (universities, national labs, defense labs). I use it for solving partial differential equations for quantum chaos calculations and went to C for speed up where needed using ctypes which is very straightforward and plays nice with numpy array/matrix libraries. I've been doing scientific programming for 30 years. Python with C extensions and libraries is the best approach I've ever used. Calculation speed is not a problem and the code can be "tweaked" to increase it easily. Programming speed is incredible. I can get substantial object oriented code up and running much faster than anything I've ever used. -- -- Lou Pecora -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
