On 11/24/2011 7:31 AM, Rudra Banerjee wrote:
Dear friends, I am a newbie in python and basically i use python for postprocessing like plotting, data manipulation etc. Based on ease of programming on python I am wondering if I can consider it for the main development as well. My jobs (written on fortran) runs for weeks and quite CPU intensive. How python works on these type of heavy computation?
The first killer app for Python was running Fortran code from within Python. People use Python for both pre- and post-processing. For small jobs, this enabled running Fortran interactively.
This lead to Numerical Python, now Numpy, SciPy, and later Sage and other scientific and Python packages. I believe SciPy has an f2py (fortran to py) module to help with running Fortran under Python (but it has been years since I read the details).
Detailed questions might get better answers on, for instance, a scipy list. -- Terry Jan Reedy -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
