Python and Math

[Roy Smith]

In article <53783c5f$0$29977$c3e8da3$5496439d at news.astraweb.com>,
 Steven D'Aprano <steve+comp.lang.python at pearwood.info> wrote:

> You may find that the IPython interactive interface to Python is useful. 
> It presents an interface which should be familiar to anyone with 
> experience with Mathematica. 

I second the IPython suggestion.  I don't use it that often, but when 
I'm doing interactive number crunching, it's my tool of choice.  The 
ability to interactively go back and edit some block of code, then 
re-execute it, is really handy when exploring a dataset.  And the tight 
integration of graphing/plotting libraries is awesome.

I tend to use it in the mode where I'm running the compute kernel on a 
remote machine (typically a big machine in a data center somewhere) and 
the display portion in a browser on my desktop.