Anyone in This NG Writing Python Code for Astronomy?

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"W. eWatson" wrote:

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Only a few lines ... I'll need to find some 'quality time' to do some
concentrated experimentation with Python, as it's very unlike
PostScript, the only computer language I've any fluency in. My version
came without documentation (except a man file, which just gives the
syntax for calling the interpreter from a command line, nothing about
actual programming) and I haven't found it easy to navigate the online
manual. So I've only begun stumbling around a bit, meanwhile trying to
get my brain around "functions", "classes", "methods", "tuples", and
other such alien notions. If only PS did high-precision arithmetic ...

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Odysseus

In article ,
Odysseus writes:
I'll need to find some 'quality time' to do some
concentrated experimentation with Python

I see there are several helpful hints specifically for astronomers at
my institution. Go to
http://www.cfa.harvard.edu
and put "python" in the search box.

I haven't used python at all, but those who have tell me it's great.
They could be right.

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