Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] Good-bye, sort of (John Hunter)

2010-08-18 Thread Robin
On Wed, Aug 18, 2010 at 8:20 AM, Sturla Molden wrote: > Den 18. aug. 2010 kl. 08.19 skrev Martin Raspaud > : > >> Once upon a time, when my boss wanted me to use matlab, I found myself >> implementing a python interpreter in matlab... >> > > There are just two sane solutions for Matlab: Either emb

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] Good-bye, sort of (John Hunter)

2010-08-18 Thread Sturla Molden
Den 18. aug. 2010 kl. 08.19 skrev Martin Raspaud : > Once upon a time, when my boss wanted me to use matlab, I found myself > implementing a python interpreter in matlab... > There are just two sane solutions for Matlab: Either embed CPyton in a MEX file, or use Matlab's JVM to run Jython ;)

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] Good-bye, sort of (John Hunter)

2010-08-17 Thread Martin Raspaud
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 David Goldsmith skrev: > > > Ahh, cell arrays, they bring back memories. Makes you pine for a > dictionary, no? > > JDH > > > Not to mention writeline, readline, string concatenation using +, > English wording of loops, list comprehen

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] Good-bye, sort of (John Hunter)

2010-08-15 Thread josef . pktd
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Sturla Molden wrote: > >> Could those contributing here put up a Cookbook page of "reasons why >> we've moved on from MATLAB", to be used as a resource by people trying >> to convince supervisors/professors/sponsors/clients that they should >> be allowed to use Pyt

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] Good-bye, sort of (John Hunter)

2010-08-15 Thread Stephen Waterbury
[scipy/python vs. matlab discussion elided] To all potential future contributors to this thread: At the risk of adding noise, I'd like to suggest that if you're going to create an extended discussion thread (even if it is a worthwhile hijack, as this one is, I think), at least change its name to

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] Good-bye, sort of (John Hunter)

2010-08-15 Thread Skipper Seabold
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Sturla Molden wrote: > >> Could those contributing here put up a Cookbook page of "reasons why >> we've moved on from MATLAB", to be used as a resource by people trying >> to convince supervisors/professors/sponsors/clients that they should >> be allowed to use Pyt

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] Good-bye, sort of (John Hunter)

2010-08-15 Thread Sturla Molden
> Could those contributing here put up a Cookbook page of "reasons why > we've moved on from MATLAB", to be used as a resource by people trying > to convince supervisors/professors/sponsors/clients that they should > be allowed to use Python? There are many reasons, to name a few: 1. Ease of pro

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] Good-bye, sort of (John Hunter)

2010-08-15 Thread Joe Harrington
While this thread is super off-topic (and long enough that I'm not going to quote it), I'm actually finding it very interesting, as a non-MATLAB person, to find out what I need to say to the MATLAB mafia here to demonstrate that MATLAB has sufficient flaws and non-followers "out in the real world"

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] Good-bye, sort of (John Hunter)

2010-08-15 Thread Sturla Molden
Den 15. aug. 2010 kl. 04.34 skrev Gary Pajer : Similar situation here. Been Matlab-free for about ten years, but my new employer ... Embed Python in a MEX an tell your employer you do MEX development. Works like a charm ;-) Or use Matlab's COM integration to run pywin32 as an ActiveX

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] Good-bye, sort of (John Hunter)

2010-08-14 Thread Gary Pajer
Similar situation here. Been Matlab-free for about ten years, but my new employer ... I started looking at the code, and my stomach sank when I first read if (nargin = 1) Oh, it hurts!! On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 4:41 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > @Josh: Awesome name. Very fitting... > > Another

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] Good-bye, sort of (John Hunter)

2010-08-14 Thread josef . pktd
On Sat, Aug 14, 2010 at 4:02 PM, Joshua Holbrook wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:48 PM,   wrote: >> On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Joshua Holbrook >> wrote: Cause honestly, If I could dump everything in one file and be able to use it everywhere. >>> >>> ...I could. >>> >>> Sorry. >

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] Good-bye, sort of (John Hunter)

2010-08-14 Thread Joshua Holbrook
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:48 PM, wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Joshua Holbrook > wrote: >>> Cause honestly, If I could dump everything in one file and be able to >>> use it everywhere. >> >> ...I could. >> >> Sorry. > > The main thing I was missing in matlab are namespaces, everythin

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] Good-bye, sort of (John Hunter)

2010-08-13 Thread josef . pktd
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Joshua Holbrook wrote: >> Cause honestly, If I could dump everything in one file and be able to >> use it everywhere. > > ...I could. > > Sorry. The main thing I was missing in matlab are namespaces, everything the equivalent of form numpy import * form pylab impo

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] Good-bye, sort of (John Hunter)

2010-08-13 Thread Joshua Holbrook
> Cause honestly, If I could dump everything in one file and be able to > use it everywhere. ...I could. Sorry. --Josh On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 1:09 PM, Joshua Holbrook wrote: > Yeah, I don't really like it either. Is there a good way to put > multiple global functions in a file without matlab

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] Good-bye, sort of (John Hunter)

2010-08-13 Thread Joshua Holbrook
Yeah, I don't really like it either. Is there a good way to put multiple global functions in a file without matlab getting upset? Cause honestly, If I could dump everything in one file and be able to use it everywhere. --Josh On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:59 PM, John Hunter wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13,

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] Good-bye, sort of (John Hunter)

2010-08-13 Thread John Hunter
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:41 PM, Benjamin Root wrote: > @Josh: Awesome name.  Very fitting... > > Another thing that I really love about matplotlib that drove me nuts in > Matlab was being unable to use multiple colormaps in the same figure. Funny -- this was one of the *first* things I thought a

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] Good-bye, sort of (John Hunter)

2010-08-13 Thread Benjamin Root
@Josh: Awesome name. Very fitting... Another thing that I really love about matplotlib that drove me nuts in Matlab was being unable to use multiple colormaps in the same figure. And don't get me started with the map plotting tools and pcolor! Ben Root On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:27 PM, Joshua H

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] Good-bye, sort of (John Hunter)

2010-08-13 Thread Joshua Holbrook
Ugh! I miss all that stuff anytime I have to use matlab. Working with strings sucks especially hard. In fact, I've tried reimplementing half of the tools I wish I had. If anyone cares: http://github.com/jesusabdullah/methlabs I'd love feedback. Perhaps ironically, I haven't used it much, due

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] Good-bye, sort of (John Hunter)

2010-08-13 Thread David Goldsmith
> > After several years now of writing Python and now having written my first > > on-the-job 15 operational MATLAB LOC, all of which are string, cell > array, > > and file processing, I'm ready to say: "MATLAB: what a PITA!" :-( > > Ahh, cell arrays, they bring back memories. Makes you pine for a

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] Good-bye, sort of

2010-08-13 Thread josef . pktd
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 12:59 PM, John Hunter wrote: > On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:47 AM, David Goldsmith > wrote: >> 2010/7/30 Stéfan van der Walt >>> >>> Hi David >>> >>> Best of luck with your new position! I hope they don't make you program >>> too much MATLAB! >> >> After several years now o

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] Good-bye, sort of

2010-08-13 Thread John Hunter
On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 11:47 AM, David Goldsmith wrote: > 2010/7/30 Stéfan van der Walt >> >> Hi David >> >> Best of luck with your new position! I hope they don't make you program >> too much MATLAB! > > After several years now of writing Python and now having written my first > on-the-job 15 o

Re: [Numpy-discussion] [SciPy-Dev] Good-bye, sort of

2010-08-13 Thread David Goldsmith
2010/7/30 Stéfan van der Walt > Hi David > > Best of luck with your new position! I hope they don't make you program too > much MATLAB! > After several years now of writing Python and now having written my first on-the-job 15 operational MATLAB LOC, all of which are string, cell array, and file p