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NumPy is making pretty strong headway in many communities. It's still not Matlabby enough for the majority, though. It doesn't make a clear improvement, so I think many see it it as just poorly replicating the features of Matlab for free.

It's also pretty notoriously difficult to install, especially if you want LAPACK/BLAS. I wasn't able to get it running on many of our servers for that reason and had to revert to Matlab.



It's also pretty notoriously difficult to install, especially if you want LAPACK/BLAS.

I almost said "no way!" then remembered how difficult it was for me to get Scipy 0.9.0 installed and verified via tests.

Still, it's like Matlab ("it" being Num/Sci/Matplotlib) plus all of Python. That's a significant improvement over Matlab if you can get it installed.




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