r/Python • • Aug 05 '19

Python's response to MATLAB

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u/Alexanderdaawesome Aug 06 '19

I rarely use it, so lack of experience?

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u/I_Feel_It_Too Aug 07 '19

I don't use it that much, either, so I was wondering if I was just missing something obvious.

A counterargument to my pro-python argument is, trying to do something even slightly different from the defaults of the user-friendly Python plotting libs requires magic matplotlib-fu which is a huge pain in the butt. I still feel like I get superior output to any of the alternatives, but it's the plotting equivalent of assembly language. The R people tell me that it's only slightly easier in R, but I haven't done enough R to evaluate that comparison first-hand.