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Re: One Reason Python is not taking over for IDL [message #78822 is a reply to message #78762]

Sat, 24 December 2011 20:07

penteado
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On Dec 22, 6:22 am, Mort Canty <mort.ca...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> Dunno about Mac OSX, and I'm definitely just a windows nerd, but I've
> got Python 2.7 (both 32 and 64 bit) installed on Windows 7 with
> Eclipse/Pydev for development. Also 32 and 64 bit Numpy, Scipy,
> Matplotlib and GDAL. It was easy, it was free and it's beautiful.

I also do not know about Macs. In recent, decent Linux installations
Python and the most standard libraries are either already installed or
can be easily installed by the package managers. Having a decent IDE
with an interactive debugger working (as we have in IDL) is, in my
experience, often not so easy.

But when it comes to having all the (often specific) version of all
the libraries that a program needs, it can be a lot of work. I just
spent days trying to do it for one particular application, trying many
install options, in many different OS versions, until I eventually
found (by running VMs) an installation where I could get every version
of every library I needed. Now I am going to install that version in
the computer where I will need the software (fortunately the computer
is for that single purpose, so I have the luxury of being able to
choose the particular OS version to put in it).

Then there is also the Python 2 x Python 3 issue...

So in that respect I still find IDL far more convenient. Even though
object graphics (in all its forms) gets severely broken when hardware
renderization is not available (a common problem with old hardware on
new OS versions, or with remote access).

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		One Reason Python is not taking over for IDL By: David Fanning on Wed, 21 December 2011 08:33
		Re: One Reason Python is not taking over for IDL By: penteado on Sat, 24 December 2011 20:07
		Re: One Reason Python is not taking over for IDL By: mort.canty on Thu, 22 December 2011 00:22
		Re: One Reason Python is not taking over for IDL By: David Fanning on Wed, 21 December 2011 13:20
		Re: One Reason Python is not taking over for IDL By: Russell[1] on Wed, 21 December 2011 13:09
		Re: One Reason Python is not taking over for IDL By: David Fanning on Wed, 21 December 2011 12:50

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