[python-advocacy] Python Libraries for Engineers

[Cameron Laird]

On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 08:47:02AM -0500, Carl Karsten wrote:
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> Jan Ulrich Hasecke wrote:
> >Hi,
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> >coming from the web development department of the Python Community I 
> >would like to know which are the most important libraries or Python 
> >projects for engineers.
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> >Background of my questrion: One of my clients wants to support Open 
> >Source Software if it is suitable for engineers.
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> I passed this on to a friend - here is his response:
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> This is an interesting question, i use numpy/scipy a lot now, there are
> other stuff which is important, the viz stuff (vtk) the hdf5 stuff
> (pytables) and so on.  There is a huge problem with using these libraries
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<URL: http://www.sagemath.org/ > might be crucial for
your client--or utterly irrelevant; 'depends on the
kind of engineering he does.