Python & C and Numerical Analyzes

John Hunter jdhunter at ace.bsd.uchicago.edu
Wed May 7 12:27:49 EDT 2003


>>>>> "erhan" == erhan  <erhan at uzem.itu.edu.tr> writes:

    erhan> Hello, My Problem is simple and short.  I wanna use Python
    erhan> Language for a project that contains very compclex
    erhan> numerical analyzes and computations.In another project
    erhan> written in C language, this numerical analyzes and
    erhan> computations take a long time as 45 min- 1 hour.I plan that
    erhan> use LAPACK(Linear Algebra Package) for Python and PySC and
    erhan> BLAS and QuadraPACK. But I am not sure that it is good
    erhan> choice.

    erhan> In your opinion, is Python Language good and fast for this
    erhan> project.

Absolutely.  See the Numerical Python project
http://www.pfdubois.com/numpy and scipy http://www.scipy.org.

scypi.linalg provides the LAPACK and BLAS functions, scipy.integrate
the QUADPACK functions

There is a scipy tutorial at
http://www.scipy.org/site_content/tutorials/show_doc?input_file=index.html

JDH





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