I came across SAGE "Software for Algebra and Geometry Experimentation" http://sage.math.washington.edu/sage/ , which includes Python and Numeric and consists of
Group theory and combinatorics -- GAP Symbolic computation and Calculus -- Maxima Commutative algebra -- Singular Number theory -- PARI, MWRANK, NTL Graphics -- Matplotlib Numerical methods -- GSL and Numeric Mainstream programming language -- Python Interactive shell -- IPython Graphical User Interface -- The SAGE Notebook Versioned Source Tracking -- Mercurial HG Maybe people who has tried this could give their impressions. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list
