newbie : econometrics in python

2006-02-27 Thread MARK LEEDS
i've used python in the past but only for data processing, writing to files, midifying files, reading from files. now, my boss wants me to do some econometrics using python.   would anyone who has done this ( var, vecm, cointegration, ols, kalman filter whatever ) mind sending me some sample c

newbie trying understand sys.path

2006-02-26 Thread MARK LEEDS
I  was trying to understand the concept of python looking for modules in sys.path.   So, as it said in "Beginning Python", I went into my .bashrc file and did   export PYTHONPATH=$PYTHONPATH:~/mytemp   then, i typed pprint.pprint(sys.path) and it worked. it was in there !

looking for a simpe plotting module

2006-02-25 Thread MARK LEEDS
i'm pretty much a python beginner so can anyone recommend a plooting package in python ( simple foating  numbers that makes lines or dots with a yaxis and an an xaxis. i don't need fancy drawings ) that is a built in module in python ?  i am using python 2.4 in linux if that matters. thanks

Re: mimicing pg 398 of practical python

2006-02-24 Thread MARK LEEDS
i should have mentioned that i am on linux and using python 2.4. my apologies.   - Original Message - From: MARK LEEDS To: python-list@python.org Sent: Friday, February 24, 2006 10:00 PM Subject: mimicing pg 398 of practical python I am trying to

mimicing pg 398 of practical python

2006-02-24 Thread MARK LEEDS
I am trying to duplicate the sunspots graph on page 398 of Practical Python. I don''t have those reportlab modules so i downloaded them from their website  and tried to put them somewhere ( not clear where i should  put them ) and then i added that place to my sys.path by doig sys.path.append