[Tutor] New to python: some advises for image processing tool

[Eike Welk]

Hello Nicola!

For scientific computing there are the Numpy and Scipy libraries:
http://www.scipy.org/
For making graphs there is Matplotlib:
http://matplotlib.sourceforge.net/

You should join the mailing lists of these projects. 


For the GUI I would use QT4:
http://doc.trolltech.com/4.5/index.html
The Python bindings are called PyQt4:
http://www.riverbankcomputing.co.uk/news

You should also look at Enthought's Traits UI, which is specially 
dedicated to scientist, but I don't know if it can be installed on 
Linux. 
http://code.enthought.com/projects/traits/
Maybe Python's built in GUI might be good enough for you. 
http://wiki.python.org/moin/TkInter

However you should definitely write a command line program first, and 
start with the GUI when the program more or less works. GUI 
programming is a lot of work for a relatively small gain in 
usability. 


Good luck with your project,
Eike.