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3D Plotting in Python with matplotlib mplot3d

by Jessica February 1, 2010

I recently needed to do some simple 3D plotting in python. The strongest choice as discussed on the web is Mayavi, which is part of the Enthought Python distribution. However, I have a previous python distribution already installed (via scisoft) with all of my favorite packages updated to the latest and greatest versions (e.g. matplotlib, [...]

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Read IDL ‘save’ files into Python

by Tom November 24, 2009

One of the most popular posts on this blog is Kelle’s reposting of Greenfield and Jedrzejewski’s IDL vs Python earlier this year. I am an avid Python user and have never installed IDL on my computer. Recently, I developed IDLSave, a package to read IDL ‘save’ files into Python, after being sent a few such [...]

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CosmoloPy: Cosmology Routines for Python

by Kelle September 17, 2009

This is a guest post by Roban Hultman Kramer, who is currently an astronomy grad student at Columbia University and will be starting as a Zwicky Fellow at ETH Zurich in January.
CosmoloPy is a package of basic cosmology routines for Python, designed for use with NumPy and SciPy. Features currently include: calculation of cosmological distance [...]

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Hungry for Plots? Get some APLpy!

by Eli July 20, 2009

Today APLpy 0.9.3 is out! It is a Python plotting package made to generate publication-quality plots in multiple formats such as EPS, PDF, PS, PNG, and SVG.
APLpy was created by Thomas Robitaille and Eli Bressert, who come from a Fortran and IDL background. With Python’s ease of use, portability, and programming they decided to make [...]

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Scisoft OSX 2009.5.2 Released

by Jessica May 18, 2009

For those of you who use scisoft, IRAF, PyRAF, Python, etc. there has been an update of the Scisoft package for Macs. This package is a very nice way to install some of the most commonly used astronomy software tools (at least in optical/IR). The Urania blog as a breakdown of some of the updates:
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