Re: Working with Excel inside Python

2007-01-07 Thread gblais
Or, you might want to look at two packages: xlrd pyExcelerator The first can read .xls files, and the second can write them. I've had great results with both. Gerry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Wow, Python much faster than MatLab

2007-01-01 Thread gblais
We're not so far apart. I've used SAS or 25 years, and R/S-PLUS for 10. I think you've said it better than I did, though: R requires more attention (which is often needed). I certainly didn't mean that R crashed - just an indictment of how much I thought I was holding in my head. Gerry --

Re: Wow, Python much faster than MatLab

2006-12-30 Thread gblais
R is the free version of the S language. S-PLUS is a commercial version. Both are targeted at statisticians per se. Their strengths are in exploratory data analysis (in my opinion). SAS has many statistical featues, and is phenomenally well-documented and supported. One of its great strengths

Re: wing ide vs. komodo?

2006-11-04 Thread gblais
I have both, but the IDE I use every day is SPE, which is shareware. I'm not savvy enough to enumerate a feature comparison, but I do find SPE extremely friendly and intuitive. Gerry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: statistical analysis tools in python?

2006-07-12 Thread gblais
And there is a python interface to R, so that you can call R routines from Python. R is a free stat language that has all the tests you've mentioned, Gerry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Stopping Execution

2005-11-10 Thread gblais
surely you mean sys.exit() Gerry -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list