Using Python for programming algorithms

Vicent Giner vginer at gmail.com
Sat May 17 20:53:50 EDT 2008


>
> The usual answer is that development
> time is more important than running time.

OK, thank you for your answer.

I just wanted to check if it was a naive idea trying to use Python
instead of C in order to implement my own algorithms, and other
research-related code.


>
> Since you are likely to be using arrays,
> you might look at numpy, where the
> number crunching is using compiled C code.

NumPy seeems to be a very interesting and powerful package. Thank you
again.


>
> Try Google with Python and your area of
> interest.  You could well find
> Python-based packages which meet your needs.
>

Yes, I've been giving a try, and I've found some interesting links.

Thank you!

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Vicent



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