Friday, June 24th, 2005
More Python: psyco and pythonmac
pythonmac.org has some very nice python packages pre-built for Mac OS X.
Psyco can really speed up the execution of Python code (only on i386 processors for now). It is a just-in-time compiler so you can run your code fast with no change in your souce code. If you’re interested in more tech detail, check out the theory (pdf).
Some other packages of interest are Matplotlib (provides a plotting library with commands similar in syntax to MATLAB), numarray (array/matrix processing), py2app (converts python scripts to standalone Mac OS X apps), and the Python Imaging Library (PIL).
