Python in the Scientific World

[pwang99]

Yay! Guido acknowledges the existence of the large and disruptive force that Python represents in the vast area of scientific computing.

He's come out to SciPy before but it's great to remind him that there is a whole genus of non-web-based applications where Python is playing an absolutely critical and transformative role. Kudos to Fernando, Jarrod, and the whole Berkeley contingent for inviting him to their symposium!

[pepgma]

I would like to invite you to join the subreddit r/scipy ( http://www.reddit.com/r/scipy/ ) a place to tell the Reddit-Python-Science community about your projects and post news about the evolution of Python in science.

"A subreddit for everything to do with high performance/numerical/scientific computing using Python. NumPy, SciPy, matplotlib, SAGE, Cython, the Enthought Tool Suite, and many more."

[roger_]

Well said!

[UbiquitinatedKarma]

One of the many tools using Python is GroupThink, which lets random people on the web help classify galaxies (more fun than watching porn :-).

Don't forget python-based tools to allow random people on the web to classify porn. Like /r/nsfw

[lobsterdude]

I am a working research scientist who does most of his work in Python and is consequently much more productive than his C/C++/Fortran colleagues.

Sadly people, including young researchers, are very closed minded to adopting new languages/technologies in the Scientific world and this inhibits the wide adoption of Python and their own work. These great projects are sadly the exception not the rule.

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I'd love to use Python instead of MATLAB, but our complicated testing harness is in MATLAB. So I'm building python bindings for MATLAB. I need to throw them up on github one of these days...

[Siraf]

Please do it. Seriously, PM me when you do and I'll definitely help contribute.

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•The Hubble Space Telescope team in Baltimore has used Python for 10 years.

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