Programming in python

After two days full of reconciling my system to run python and iPython — during which I “\rm -Rf”ed a directory that I shouldn’t have — things appear to be running. I went the way of enthought — which is free for academic use, but then found it is only 32-bit on my 64-bit machine. (Peter Williams also points to Anaconda as an option.) So, I removed all of that, and used homebrew (also see here) to install python and all the libraries I was missing, and pip to install the packages I need.
Now, ipython with the notebook looks like an awesome way to develop!
There is also IDLE.

Now, here are some good resources:

• Python tutorial
• iPython tutorial
• iPython notebook tutorial
• matplotlib tutorial
• Nice exploration of computing performance in python
• And another computational comparison by Dan Stowell
• numpy tutorial
• Numpy and Scipy documentation
• Scipy Central
• matching pursuit in python
• orthogonal MP in python
• The Bregman Audio-Visual Information Toolbox
• Converting notebooks to a more reader-friendly format
• “I also think it’s not hard to imagine a world where scientific papers are all just literate programs.“
• Python wrapper for YAAFE.
  Note the fix here, which worked for me. I also had to manually specify my matlab path in ccmake.