Fortran vs Python - Newbie Question

[Mark Morss]

On Mar 27, 12:55 pm, Jaap Spies <j.sp... at hccnet.nl> wrote:
> Mark Morss wrote:
>
> > Maybe somebody reading this will be able to convince me to look again
> > at Numpy/Scipy, but for the time being I will continue to do my
> > serious numerical computation in Fortran.
>
> What I am missing in this discussion is a link to Pyrex to speed up
> Python: Pyrex is almost Python with the speed of compiled C.http://www.cosc.canterbury.ac.nz/greg.ewing/python/Pyrex/
>
> Pyrex is adapted in SAGE (Software for Algebra and Geometry
> Experimentation) as Sagex:http://modular.math.washington.edu/sage/
>
> Jaap

Well, the discussion was about Python vs. Fortran, and Pyrex, as I
understand it, is a tool for linking C to Python.  So I am not sure of
the relevance of Pyrex to this particular discussion.  F2PY is the
leading tool for linking Fortran to Python, and I did mention that.