Re: Looking for the Perfect Editor

2006-09-14 Thread David J. Braden
Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: >> Hi Stu und "Willie", >> <> > >> I don't yet know what jython is about, or for, but I'm up for trying > > jedit for python. > jython is an implementation of python in java (hence the name ;)). That > means it's a python interpreter inside a java virtual machine (gr

Re: Linear regression in 3 dimensions

2006-09-14 Thread David J. Braden
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi Dave! > >> <> >> >> Hi Bernhard, >> I am just starting to learn Python; could you plz tell me specifically >> the introduction(s) you have in mind? >> >> TIA, >> DaveB > > Take a look at the documenation section on www.scipy.org. > > Especially the old NumPy documen

Re: Newbie - ? get IDLE going on cygwin

2006-09-14 Thread David J. Braden
Fredrik Lundh wrote: <> .. > > or get a more convenient distribution. > > > Suggestion(s) for Windows os and cygwin? TIA DaveB -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Newbie - ? get IDLE going on cygwin

2006-09-14 Thread David J. Braden
Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * David J. Braden (2006-09-14 04:58 +0100) >> Jason Tishler wrote: >>> Dave, >>> >>> On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 03:33:01PM +, David J. Braden wrote: >>>> I can now confirm that, yes, IDLE pops up w/o menus under cygwin. >

Re: Newbie - ? get IDLE going on cygwin

2006-09-13 Thread David J. Braden
Jason Tishler wrote: > Dave, > > On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 03:33:01PM +0000, David J. Braden wrote: >> I can now confirm that, yes, IDLE pops up w/o menus under cygwin. > > You should be able to workaround this problem by executing idle with the > "-n" opt

Re: Looking for the Perfect Editor

2006-09-13 Thread David J. Braden
stu wrote: > Wildemar Wildenburger wrote: >> Finally! I usually try to stay out of these discussions; yet I'm always >> disappointed at how few people seem to be using jEdit and how long it >> takes them to come out of their holes. > > well when people start reccomending things like textpad which

Re: Linear regression in 3 dimensions

2006-09-13 Thread David J. Braden
Andrew McLean wrote: > Bernhard, > > Levenberg-Marquardt is a good solution when you want to solve a general > non-linear least-squares problem. As Robert said, the OPs problem is > linear and Robert's solution exploits that. Using LM here is unnecessary > and I suspect a fair bit less efficien

Re: Scientific computing and data visualization.

2006-09-13 Thread David J. Braden
Fie Pye wrote: > Hallo > > I would like to have a high class open source tools for scientific > computing and powerful 2D and 3D data visualisation. Therefore I chose > python, numpy and scipy as a base. Now I am in search for a visualisation > tool. I tried matplotlib and p

Re: Random Drawing Simulation -- performance issue

2006-09-13 Thread David J. Braden
David J. Braden wrote: > Travis E. Oliphant wrote: >> Brendon Towle wrote: >>> I need to simulate scenarios like the following: "You have a deck of >>> 3 orange cards, 5 yellow cards, and 2 blue cards. You draw a card, >>> replace it, and repeat N tim

Re: Random Drawing Simulation -- performance issue

2006-09-13 Thread David J. Braden
Travis E. Oliphant wrote: > Brendon Towle wrote: >> I need to simulate scenarios like the following: "You have a deck of >> 3 orange cards, 5 yellow cards, and 2 blue cards. You draw a card, >> replace it, and repeat N times." >> > > Thinking about the problem as drawing sample froms a discret

Re: Newbie - ? get IDLE going on cygwin

2006-09-13 Thread David J. Braden
Jason Tishler wrote: > Dave, > > On Wed, Sep 13, 2006 at 09:42:48AM +0000, David J. Braden wrote: >> Thorsten Kampe wrote: >>> * David J. Braden (2006-09-12 18:35 +0100) >>>> I can run Python in command-line mode fine from the cygwin shell; >>>> t

Re: Newbie - ? get IDLE going on cygwin

2006-09-13 Thread David J. Braden
Thorsten Kampe wrote: > * David J. Braden (2006-09-12 18:35 +0100) >> I can run Python in command-line mode fine from the cygwin shell; the >> cygwin distribution also includes IDLE, which is apparently completely >> installed, yet I am unable to get IDLE running

Re: Random Drawing Simulation -- performance issue

2006-09-12 Thread David J. Braden
Brendon Towle wrote: > I need to simulate scenarios like the following: "You have a deck of 3 > orange cards, 5 yellow cards, and 2 blue cards. You draw a card, replace > it, and repeat N times." > > So, I wrote the following code, which works, but it seems quite slow to > me. Can anyone point

Newbie - ? get IDLE going on cygwin

2006-09-12 Thread David J. Braden
Hi, (from a total newbie w/ Python. Oh well.) I can run Python in command-line mode fine from the cygwin shell; the cygwin distribution also includes IDLE, which is apparently completely installed, yet I am unable to get IDLE running. When I double-click idle.bat (or idle.pyw) I am prompted to