Python advocacy in scientific computation

[bearophileHUGS at lycos.com]

Michael Tobis:
> Python plays so well with others. For many applications, NumPy is fine.
> Otherwise write your own C or C++ or F77; building the Python bindings
> is trivial.

On Windows I have found that creating such bindings is very very
difficult... I have succed only partially, with C++, and I've had to
compile Python with MinGW (a compilation succed at about 95%). It's not
easy and surely not trivial (for me).

Bye,
bearophile