From: Victoria G. L. <la...@st...> - 2005-07-29 14:37:17
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There's a matplotlib cheat sheet for IDL users as Appendix D of the recently posted tutorial on using Python for data analysis in astronomy. http://www.scipy.org/wikis/topical_software/Tutorial http://stsdas.stsci.edu/perry/pydatatut.pdf The tutorial PDF document is rather large; appendix D runs from pages 128-135. Maybe we'll split it off into a separate document and post it on the new matplotlib wiki. Vicki Laidler >===== Original message from Alan G. Isaac | Thu, 28 Jul 2005: > > >>> More natural choices might be >>> - GAUSS - PDL - SciLab - Lush - Yorick - Algae - A+ >> >> > >thanks for the input. >how different are PDL, IDL and GDL? >aren't there a PyDL or pyIDL also? >or is this something different? > >this resource might be useful for this, i guess? >"IDL to Numeric/numarray Mapping" >http://www.johnny-lin.com/cdat_tips/tips_array/idl2num.html > |
From: Gary R. <gr...@bi...> - 2005-07-30 05:23:08
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Good work Vidar. The Appendix Vicki mentions is in a great document which was mentioned on the scipy list. Perry Greenfield, one of the authors, says: "There are appendices that contrast Python/numarray with IDL, I'd be happy to include the equivalent for Matlab if anyone who is familiar with both would like to write such appendices." It may be nice for your guide to become part of the appendix of that document, and also to live a separate existence, as Vicki suggests may happen with the current IDL appendix. Whatever happens, I think it would be a good idea for these documents to be married in some way. Gary Victoria G. Laidler wrote: > There's a matplotlib cheat sheet for IDL users as Appendix D of the > recently posted tutorial > on using Python for data analysis in astronomy. > > http://www.scipy.org/wikis/topical_software/Tutorial > http://stsdas.stsci.edu/perry/pydatatut.pdf > > The tutorial PDF document is rather large; appendix D runs from pages > 128-135. > Maybe we'll split it off into a separate document and post it on the new > matplotlib wiki. > > Vicki Laidler |
From: Vidar G. <vid...@37...> - 2005-07-30 09:31:54
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===== Original message from Gary Ruben | Sat, 30 Jul 2005: > "There are appendices that contrast Python/numarray with IDL, I'd be > happy to include the equivalent for Matlab if anyone who is familiar > with both would like to write such appendices." adding IDL commands to the XML instance, it will be easy to create an IDL, Python/numarray, Matlab cross reference. it can typeset in any way preferred for inclusion in other documents. > It may be nice for your guide to become part of the appendix of that > document, and also to live a separate existence, as Vicki suggests may > happen with the current IDL appendix. Whatever happens, I think it > would be a good idea for these documents to be married in some way. this openness is my intension entirely, distibuting the mpy-xref under GFDL: i can do this work, and anyone else may. i was wondering, are IDL, PDL (Perl Data Language) and GDL (GNU Data Language) compliant like MATLAB and Octave or R and S+, or are there larger differences between these syntaxes? -- Vidar Bronken Gundersen |