Introduction

A brief introduction to SciPy.

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What is SciPy?

If you are a scientist, researcher, or a student doing any kind of data analysis or numeric programming, then Python is worth investing some time in, even just the basics.

Like NumPy, SciPy is stable, mature, and widely used. Many SciPy routines are thin wrappers around industry-standard Fortran libraries such as LAPACK, BLAS, etc. ...