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

2010-08-18 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 comprehension,

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 martin.rasp...@smhi.se: 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

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 stu...@molden.no wrote: Den 18. aug. 2010 kl. 08.19 skrev Martin Raspaud martin.rasp...@smhi.se: 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

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 gary.pa...@gmail.com: 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

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
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

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 stu...@molden.no 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

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 josef . pktd
On Sun, Aug 15, 2010 at 1:43 PM, Sturla Molden stu...@molden.no 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

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, josef.p...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Joshua Holbrook josh.holbr...@gmail.com 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

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 josh.holbr...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 3:48 PM,  josef.p...@gmail.com wrote: On Fri, Aug 13, 2010 at 5:11 PM, Joshua Holbrook josh.holbr...@gmail.com wrote: Cause honestly, If I could dump everything in one file and be able to

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 ben.r...@ou.edu wrote: @Josh: Awesome name. Very

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 (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,

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

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 ben.r...@ou.edu 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

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 jdh2...@gmail.com wrote:

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 josh.holbr...@gmail.com wrote: Yeah, I don't really like it either. Is there a good way to put multiple global functions in a

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 josh.holbr...@gmail.com 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 *