| Re: Any interest in an IDL to Python interface? [message #59066 is a reply to message #58975] |
Sun, 02 March 2008 10:57  |
maye
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Registered: June 2006
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On Mar 1, 3:49 am, metachronist <rkombi...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Feb 29, 9:42 am, Jason Ferrara <jason.ferr...@jacquette.com> wrote:
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>> On Feb 28, 12:13 pm, Reimar Bauer <R.Ba...@fz-juelich.de> wrote:
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>>> Hi
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>>> it could be nice if something like that is added for all supported OS
>>> versions not only for windows.
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>> Its our plan to support Windows, Linux, and Mac.
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>>> python has lots of interesting libraries and is used as scripting
>>> language in many programs (OpenOffice.org, Blender, Maya, PyMOL, Gimp, etc.)
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>>> The problem will be the price or do you have considered to share it free
>>> of charge?
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>> It would be a commercial product. The pricing hasn't been determined
>> yet.
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>>> And another question has to be discussed too. What of idl will be left
>>> over if such a powerful programming language will be added to idl.
>>> For example this will give us the possibility to use QT4 for widgets. Or
>>> we never again do get "the sky is falling down miracle" because of the
>>> decimal data type. Or we can use pythons standalone webserver or lots of
>>> math libraries free of charge.
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>>> One has to ask himself if an idl program is mostly based on python
>>> modules why he has to use idl and does not do the whole job in python
>>> then? There are not much differences between both languages.
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>>> How would the development of idl been continued if we as user could
>>> always use other libs?
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>> I don't see this as being an issue.
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>> Each language has its own strengths and weaknesses. Its not a one
>> size
>> fits all thing. Interoperability between languages means you can mix
>> and
>> match as best solves your problem, rather than having to pick one and
>> then struggle with it for the things its not good with.
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>> And more libraries accessible from IDL makes IDL more useful, not
>> less.
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> First of all this is an excellent idea.. But just curious.. what is
> the memory overhead in computationally intensive apps? Any bench
> marks? I personally am a big python advocate and learning more
> everyday! Thanks for any additional info that you can provide.
> Best wishes,
> /rk
Just adding:
Me too, plz. I love Python and would at least like to have some
interoperability.
I'm also eagerly waiting for a Python-SPICE interface, then SPICE
results could be fed directly into IDL's powerful plotting routines.
Or IDL's results could be fed via Python into this Python-supported 3D
rendering program Blender.
Go ahead with it!
Best regards,
Michael
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