Filling in Degrees in a Circle (Astronomy)

[Ken Starks]

tom wrote:

> 
> Both scipy and matplotlib are not part of the standard Python 
> distribution so they would need to be installed separately.  Scipy is 
> useful for scientific data analysis, and matplotlib is useful for making 
> plots.
> 

For a review of a really nice looking wrapper around lots of open-source
mathematical tools, look here:

http://vnoel.wordpress.com/2008/05/03/bye-matlab-hello-python-thanks-sage/

it is called SAGE and includes both of the above and lots more goodies.

for sage itself:

http://www.sagemath.org/