lists <-> tuple

[Peter Notebaert]

"Robert Kern" <robert.kern at gmail.com> wrote in message 
news:mailman.47.1130974709.18701.python-list at python.org...
> Peter Notebaert wrote:
>> I am new to Python and have to create an import library in C that uses
>> matrices.
>>
>> These matrices can be one-dimensional (vectors) or two-dimensional. If I
>> look in the ActivePython 2.4 documentation at data structures, then I see 
>> at
>> least 2 posibilities to represent them: Lists and Tuples.
>>
>> The documention doesn't give me much information on what the best choice 
>> is
>> for the data type to provide/return these matrices.
>>
>> So my question is, should I use lists or tuples to represent my matrices 
>> in
>> and why?
>
> You'll probably want to use scipy_core. It's a package designed
> specifically to deal with multidimensional arrays of homogeneous,
> (usually) numeric data.
>
>  http://numeric.scipy.org
>
> -- 
> Robert Kern
> rkern at ucsd.edu
>
> "In the fields of hell where the grass grows high
> Are the graves of dreams allowed to die."
>  -- Richard Harter
>

Thanks!