which one to choose - NumPy or Scientific Python

[Fernando Pérez]

Rajarshi Guha wrote:

> Hi,
>   I've been doing most of my science related work using C - but for some
> new work I'm starting (neural nets, QSAR etc) I'm thinking of using python.
> I know there are 2 sets of libs - NumPy and Scientific Python.
> 
> Are there any suggestion as to which one is better or more suitable - I
> won't need heavy duty number crunching. I do need arrays, basic statistical
> functions (I could code these myself - but their presence would be nice)
> 
I use SciPy, which includes Numeric, and also Scientific. There's enough 
non-overlap between the two for both to be useful.

And yes, people are discussing some uniformization of this so that questions 
like yours don't have to be asked. It would be real nice to have *one* set of 
modules for scientific work. Join the party...

F.