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SciPy Notebook

This project is dedicated but not related to the SciPy project.

I am a physicist that deals a lot with time-series analysis and statistics. My main workhorse is python especially numpy and scipy. Unfortunately there is no proper solution hack python live. The python console or iPython are nice tools but are not practical if one has to write more than one line of code. On the other side, writing scripts is not practically because they need to be re-run completely just to play around with the calculated results. So I searched for a intermediate solution and could not find something.

As usually, I decided to write my own.

The concept is quiet simple and is not new: the notebook. An example can be seen in the wxMaxima application that nicely integrates the hacking comfort of an editor with the flexibility of a command line. There is even a nice program called Notebook that works with python, but only for MacOS X.