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Dear Scipy developpers, Thanks for the work on scipy and the related effort to bring scientific computing solutions to open-source. I'm in the effort to translate my MATLAB scripts into scipy and the learning curve is steep. I particularly appreciate iPython (so this is perhaps OT on the scipy ML) as a solution to have a researcher-friendly interface. A killer (and that will convince many people around me still sticking to MATLAB) would be to enable inline graphics, as was the case in mathematica. This would be : - a very good way to interact with your code (I love to use hist() to know wehere my variables live), - an easy way to create simple reports of results or to include in paper to allow replication of results (export session to pdf) - an excellent way to produce tutorials for schools (as standalone .py files) Unfortunately, may coding abilities don't even permit me to gauge if this feature is a snap to code or if it involves calling for mysterious extra-human forces... Also, I wish to stress that it's not a call for a "visual scipy" with a lot of avoidable features (no offense to Matlab :) ) but just a simple way to include in the same window a graphic ouput to a command-line request... Cheerts, Laurent exemple (inspired by travis' tutorial) :
from pylab import * plot([1,2,3,4])
plot([1,2,3,4], [1,4,9,16], 'ro') axis([0, 6, 0, 20])
savefig('secondfig.png')
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Salsifis wrote:
I particularly appreciate iPython (so this is perhaps OT on the scipy ML) as a solution to have a researcher-friendly interface. A killer (and that will convince many people around me still sticking to MATLAB) would be to enable inline graphics, as was the case in mathematica.
How far does TeXmacs go in fulfilling this need? I saw it used at SciPy '04, although admittedly mainly as a sort of automatic document update, where scipy code was embedded in a TeX document and its output automatically included therein. ps_out was used to embed a graphic in the document in real time as well. My notes say this stuff is on the LiveZope DVD.
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Salsifis
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Stephen Walton