[SciPy-user] Pros and Cons of Python verses other array environments

[Gael Varoquaux]

On Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 04:06:23PM -0400, A. M. Archibald wrote:
> As for missing features, I'd like to see even very basic symbolic
> calculation tools, so that (for example) I could just call a symbolic
> derivative function to supply a Jacobian to the minimizers. From a bit
> of web research, swiginac seems like the most promising alternative.

You can have a look at sympy too. It is very young, though.

Gaël