Mathematica-style notebook in Python

[Rick Muller]

I was wondering whether anyone has considered writing a
Mathematica-style notebook in Python. I use Python to do a lot of
scientific analysis, and I really like it's power. But what I always
envy about my friends who use Mathematica is the notebooks they
generate, which contain plots, annotations, and other information, in
a format that can be reloaded easily when you want to check your work.

Before I start doing something like this, has anyone else considered
it?

[A.M. Kuchling]

Re: Mathematica-style notebook in Python

On 12 Feb 2004 13:13:01 -0800,
Rick Muller <rick_muller@ya hoo.com> wrote:[color=blue]
> [Re: Mathematica-like notebooks]
> Before I start doing something like this, has anyone else considered
> it?[/color]

James Tauber suggested it last June in the thread starting here:

http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&safe=off&selm=mailman.1056218558.29567.python-list%40python.org

However, at the end of it he went off to investigate wxPython
and never posted a final result, so whether he succeeded or not is unknown.
I'd suggest e-mailing him.

(And I would *love* to see such a tool for Python; it would have lots of
different applications.)

--amk

[Michael Hudson]

Re: Mathematica-style notebook in Python

rick_muller@yah oo.com (Rick Muller) writes:
[color=blue]
> I was wondering whether anyone has considered writing a
> Mathematica-style notebook in Python. I use Python to do a lot of
> scientific analysis, and I really like it's power. But what I always
> envy about my friends who use Mathematica is the notebooks they
> generate, which contain plots, annotations, and other information, in
> a format that can be reloaded easily when you want to check your work.
>
> Before I start doing something like this, has anyone else considered
> it?[/color]

Considered it, certainly. Armin Rigo, Holger Krekel and I recently
made a start on such a thing (called shpy) but haven't got very far
yet...

Cheers,
mwh

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