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Are there any Python functions to help with linear algebra?
What is numpy used for?

Mar 2nd, 2000 09:24
Paul F. Dubois, Nathan Wallace, William Park, Gary Herron ,Paul Dubois


I'm looking for a module or a set of functions that does linear algebra,
things like inverses, multiplication, eigenvalues, etc..

That would be Numeric Python. Numeric Python adds an array-based 
computation facility to Python. Some of the packages based on Numeric 
include FFTs, linear algebra, random numbers, and more. 

Numerical Python is available on sourceforge:

  http://numpy.sourceforge.net/

You can wrap your own Fortran routines with Pyfort:
  http://pyfortran.sourceforge.net