Re: [Matplotlib-users] [Numpy-discussion] [matplotlib-devel] Unifying numpy, scipy, and matplotlib docstring formats

2007-02-18 Thread Barry Wark
Matt, Yes, I agree. I wasn't coming at so much from the goal of making Pylab a Matlab clone (as you point out, that's silly, and misses much of the advantage of Python), but rather from the goal of making interactive use as efficient as possible. When I fire up ipython -pylab to do some quick expl

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [Numpy-discussion] [matplotlib-devel] Unifying numpy, scipy, and matplotlib docstring formats

2007-02-18 Thread Neal Becker
I have never used matlab, but a lot of my colleagues do. Can anyone give me some good references that I could show them to explain the advantages of python over matlab? - Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT J

Re: [Matplotlib-users] [Numpy-discussion] [matplotlib-devel] Unifying numpy, scipy, and matplotlib docstring formats

2007-02-18 Thread Matthew Brett
Hi, > import plab > > plab.plot() #etc. > > and interactive use could do from plab import *. Yes... It's a hard call of course. I am a long term matlab user, and switched to python relatively recently. I do see the attraction of persuading people that you can get something very similar to matl