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

James Tauber suggested it last June in the thread starting here:
http://groups.google.com/[email protected]

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]

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?

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