.. index:: SciPy
.. _SciPy:

SciPy
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Description
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SciPy is open-source python library for mathematics, science, and engineering.

User instructions
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SciPy 0.18.1 is installed on all workstations from the Debian repositories.

Documentation is available at http://www.scipy.org.  Good quality documentation is also availably interactively via python docstrings, e.g.

.. code-block:: python

    import scipy.integrate
    print scipy.integrate.quad.__doc__

Source
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http://scipy.org/

License
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BSD license.

Admin notes
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The version from the Debian repositories is sufficiently recent currently.