<html><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div>On Dec 26, 2008, at 19:05 , <a href="mailto:Robert.T.Lynch@seagate.com">Robert.T.Lynch@seagate.com</a> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><blockquote type="cite"><font size="2" face="sans-serif">but this seems overkill to me. Can you tell I am coming to Python from Matlab?</font> </blockquote><div><br></div><div><br></div>if you're coming from matlab, then you should think of python lists more like cell arrays than matrices: you can have lists of arbitrary data types, so multiply is not going to work in the matrix way.</div><div><br></div><div>check out <a href="http://web.bryant.edu/~bblais/bryant/numerical_computing/python_matlab.pdf">http://web.bryant.edu/~bblais/bryant/numerical_computing/python_matlab.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>but more importantly, you need to install numpy (which has the matrix stuff) and scipy (which has the scientific packages). What I do is go to <a href="http://www.enthought.com">www.enthought.com</a> and they have a single-download package geared specifically for scientists. </div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space:pre"> </span>bb<br></div><div><br></div><div> <span class="Apple-style-span" style="border-collapse: separate; border-spacing: 0px 0px; color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Monaco; font-size: 13px; font-style: normal; font-variant: normal; font-weight: normal; letter-spacing: normal; line-height: normal; text-align: auto; -khtml-text-decorations-in-effect: none; text-indent: 0px; -apple-text-size-adjust: auto; text-transform: none; orphans: 2; white-space: normal; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; "><div>-- </div><div>Brian Blais</div><div><a href="mailto:bblais@bryant.edu">bblais@bryant.edu</a></div><div><a href="http://web.bryant.edu/~bblais">http://web.bryant.edu/~bblais</a></div><div><br class="khtml-block-placeholder"></div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></span> </div><br></body></html>