Scientific Libraries in Python

[William Park]

On Mon, Nov 12, 2001 at 11:32:34AM +1000, Horatio Davis wrote:
> 
> G'day,
> 
> I've been looking at SciPy and ScientificPython, and a question occurs:
> 
> Would it be possible for one to absorb the other so we have a single
> standard scientific library for Python?
> 
> There's good stuff in both of them that would be nice to have in _one_
> place, and it just seems more Pythonic. Comments about redundant
> functionality, conflicting philosophies, license incompatibility, and
> other potential victims^H^H^H^H^H^H^H scientific libraries to be
> assimilated are welcome.
> 
> Cheers,
> 
> AHD

Simply including the Fortran/C libraries (and their wrappers) as part of
Python distribution wouldn't be a problem, other than licenses.  But, so
far, nobody made that decision or see the need for it.

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