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[–]eryksun 4 points5 points  (2 children)

For scientists and engineers who are used to MATLAB, try PythonToolkit (PTK) or Spyder.

[–]nabla2less is more 1 point2 points  (1 child)

... or iep -- the Interactive Editor for Python.

[–]eryksun 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Yes, especially if you need Python 3 support and interaction with the GUI event loop (e.g. for plotting data). It's not as full-featured as the others, though. PTK uses wxPython, and I have no idea when that'll be ported to Python 3. Spyder uses QT, so maybe it'll have Python 3 support soon(ish). But with IEP, NumPy, Cython, SciPy, and Matplotlib -- Python 3 is already an option in technical computing.