Dan, Thanks for the update. As you know, we will try and support you as much as possible. I forwarded this to the fipy list as stuff below is relevant to others. I would like to make you of aware of what people are beginning to call pylab. This basically consists of ipython, scipy, matplotlib and other symbolic maths tools (as they become available, some already are, see scipy list thread below). There are some good arguments for using this as opposed to Matlab or Mathematica. The main one being that python offers a superior programming language to either of the commercial options. There has been a recent informative thread on the scipy-user list: There is some discussion from people whio have taught using pylab and other stuff. The wiki page is here: One particular argument I like is that people often prototype in matlab or mathematica then have to go off and write a C code. Using pylab avoids that hurdle as you have the power of a full language if you need to turn your prototype into the real thing. Another thing, ipython is an interactive python environment. You can launch ipython with command line flags to import the right modules on start up. Then, possibly, you can alias pylab to ipython --someflags, gives it a nice feel and you don't have to explain to students about importing different stuff before anything actually works. As far as FiPy is concerned, it could be just another module you pull into pylab when needed. Cheers Daniel On Sep 28, 2006, at 4:18 PM, Daniel Lewis wrote:
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