[SciPy-user] cephes -> scipy

[Travis E. Oliphant]

Arend SLUIS wrote:
> Hi,
> 
>    I am using some python software that relies on the cephes special
> function package.  Since I am unable to compile cephes on my machine, I
> have been thinking of hacking the code and switching to scipy's suite of
> special functions.  Does anyone have any experience with both cephes and
> scipy?  Any comments and suggestions are appreciated.

All of the cephes functions are in scipy.special.  Much more is there as 
well.

You should be able to do a search replace from cephes -> scipy.special 
to port your code.

There may be a couple of name changes but I don't think so.

If you already have ATLAS or *complete* LAPACK/BLAS then installing 
SciPy is not difficult.

Check the latest CVS out and run python setup.py install.

If you are on Windows, then download Enthought's edition to avoid 
compilation of the package.

-Travis O.