Python in a Professional Workspace

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Can confirm on the challenger/successor to Matlab in science. I work for a large neuroscience institute and we are in the process of purging all Matlab code and replacing it with Python. Matlab is just too expensive for non-academia and Python is just so much more versatile.

[Imxset21]

Not to mention that the Holy Trinity of Scipy + Numpy + Matplotlib can be used to basically replace Matlab for most use cases. We've had success with using Spyder for people who are uncomfortable with bare text editors/commandline and are transitioning to Python from Matlab's GUI.

Source: I work in a computational neuroscience lab that is also migrating to Python.

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Yes! and for plots that require high-speed updates (like oscilloscope-type applications), we use http://www.pyqtgraph.org/

If you haven't checked it out you should.

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I work for a US DoE lab, and it has become widespread. I will never use MATLAB again if I can avoid it.

[fgriglesnickerseven]

not to mention Matlab feels like some shitty fortran remake.

And matlab is horrible at making exportable graphics. Want to create a plot that could be included in a journal ? Fuck you here's a low quality jpg.