I will second the request for SciPy. In addition to SciPy, the python 
package "numpy" (http://sourceforge.net/projects/numpy) are pre-requisites 
for some astronomy-specific python modules (eg PyFITS, PyRAF; 
http://www.stsci.edu/resources/software_hardware).

Regards,

Chris Hunter

On Tue, 23 May 2006, Andy Buckley wrote:

> Hi,
>
> I don't know if there is a formal procedure to request that packages be 
> supported by SL, but it would be *extremely* useful if HippoDraw, SciPy and 
> PyX could be incorporated at some point. All are reasonably stable and are 
> very useful tools for data analysis. HippoDraw in particular is a useful 
> analysis package which is compatible with ROOT, SciPy is an established data 
> processing library for Python and PyX is a high-quality plotting package for 
> Python.
>
> I'm not sure if RPMs exist at present for these packages, but would be happy 
> to investigate. If there is interest in including the StatPatternRecognition 
> library from SLAC, I'll look into seeing if that can be packaged, too.
>
> Thanks in advance,
> Andy
>
>

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Chris Hunter
Systems Programmer, Astronomy, Yale University
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