On Mar 7, 9:41 am, Dennis Lee Bieber <wlfr...@ix.netcom.com> wrote: > On Tue, 6 Mar 2012 20:06:37 -0800 (PST), amar Singh > <jagteraho2...@gmail.com> declaimed the following in > gmane.comp.python.general: > > > Hi, > > > I am confused between plain python, numpy, scipy, pylab, matplotlib. > > > I have high familiarity with matlab, but the computer I use does not > > have it. So moving to python. > > What should I use? and the best way to use it. I will be running > > matlab-like scripts sometimes on the shell prompt and sometimes on the > > command line. > > If Matlab compatibility is a high constraint, I'll speak heresy and > suggest you might look at Octavehttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GNU_Octave > > Python is stand-alone programming/scripting language. Numpy is an > extension package adding array/matrix math operations but the syntax > won't be a direct match to Matlab; Scipy is an extension package that, > well, extends Numpy. Matplotlib is a separate package for graphical > plotting of array data. {simplistic explanation} > > -- > Wulfraed Dennis Lee Bieber AF6VN > wlfr...@ix.netcom.com HTTP://wlfraed.home.netcom.com/
Thanks everyone for helping me on this. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
