python distributions for computation
Ethan Coon
Hope all is well, and that you enjoyed the rest of your time at LANL.
Recently a friend at Applied Math (APAM) at Columbia asked our python
users group about the existence of a python distribution for ubuntu
that wasn't Enthought (which only has 32 bit distributions for free,
nothing 64 bit).
I said that I didn't know of any, but that I'd heard from you that it
was fairly easy to use SAGE as a separate python distribution, even
though it didn't have an ubuntu distribution. Would you mind offering
your thoughts on setting up SAGE as a numerical computation
distribution of python, with thoughts on how easy it was to get going,
add or remove additional modules, advantages and disadvantages
compared to doing it yourself (via, for instance, virtualenv or an
alternate python installation directory), that sort of thing.
Thanks,
Ethan
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Ethan Coon
DOE CSGF - Graduate Student
Dept. Applied Physics & Applied Mathematics
Columbia University
212-854-0415
http://www.ldeo.columbia.edu/~ecoon/
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