On Jul 7, 3:35 pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hello, > I have recently become interested in using python for scientific > computing, and came across both sage and enthought. I am curious if > anyone can tell me what the differences are between the two, since > there seems to be a lot of overlap (from what I have seen). If my goal > is to replace matlab (we do signal processing and stats on > physiological data, with a lot of visualization), would sage or > enthought get me going quicker? I realize that this is a pretty vague > question, and I can probably accomplish the same with either, but what > would lead me to choose one over the other? > Thanks!
Hello, If you are using Windows, you're better off using Enthought for now since Sage does not run natively on Windows yet. Hopefully by the end of the year there will be a native version on Windows. If you're on Linux or OS X (or Solaris in the near future), then Sage does have some advantages. If you build Sage from source (which consists solely of type "make" once), then you get a copy of ATLAS tuned to your machine which can provide a solid speedup for numerical linear algebra problems. You also get all of the symbolic and exact arithmetic which may or may not be beneficial for your application. Sage also comes with libraries so that you can script Octave or Matlab or most any other system. --Mike Full disclosure: I'm a Sage developer :-) -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
