SciPy

SciPy is a comprehensive package (by Eric Jones, Travis Oliphant, Pearu Peterson) for scientific computing with Python
Much overlap with ScientificPython
SciPy interfaces many classical Fortran packages from Netlib (QUADPACK, ODEPACK, MINPACK, ...)
Functionality: special functions, linear algebra, numerical integration, ODEs, random variables and statistics, optimization, root finding, interpolation, ...
May require some installation efforts (applies ATLAS)
See www.scipy.org

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