On Fri, Dec 2, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Wolfgang Mader <Wolfgang.Mader@fdm.uni-freiburg.de> wrote:

Hello list,

what is the best way to use ipython, numpy, matplotlib, and scipy together?

I start ipython using

ipython --pylab

in order to get an interactive matplotlib and pull numpy and matplotlib functions to the workspace. But some functions like fft, ifft, ... are reimplemented in scipy. I have read, that it is proposed to use

from scipy import *

for interactive shells. How does this interefere with --pylab?

Sorry, I don't know the answer, but even in interactive work I would recommend using namespaces or explicit imports. I find this "matlabism" of using no namespaces very confusing. (And it makes it harder converting interactive code to clean scripts.) (And I'm not a representative scipy user, and it's only the last of the Zen.) Josef "Where did the behavior of this function come from, I thought this was something else."

Thank you for you advice. Wolfgang _______________________________________________ SciPy-User mailing list SciPy-User@scipy.org http://mail.scipy.org/mailman/listinfo/scipy-user