PyGSL: Python interface for GNU Scientific Library

Status of GSL-Library:

The gsl-library is since version 1.0 stable and for general use. Read more about it at the GSL homepage.

Status of this interface:

We are collecting implementations of parts of gsl. So the interface is not complete. We are looking forward to contributions of new submodules, while maintaining the available code.

Requirements:

To build the interface, you will need

Retrieving the Interface:

You can download pygsl at http://pygsl.sourceforge.net

Installing GSL interface:

Uninstall the old version of pygsl

gsl-config must be on your path

gzip -d -c pygsl-x.y.z.tar.gz|tar xvf-
cd pygsl-x.y.z
#do this with your preferred python version
#to set the gsl location explicitly use setup.py --gsl-prefix=/path/to/gsl
#If your are using cvs, remove your build directory.
python setup.py config
python setup.py build
# Running only
python setup.py
# can result in an error. So if you see an error running setup.py please run python setup.py build
# change to a id, that is allowed to do installation
python setup.py install

Ready....

Using pygsl

Do NOT test the interface in the distribution root directory! -- please install it first and then change to the tests directory and execute python run_test.py If you want to execute it in the distribution root directory, please run python setup.py build_ext -i first! It will put the required binary files into the pygsl directory.

Just write in python
import pygsl.sf
print "%g+/-%g"%pygsl.sf.erf(1)

or
import pygsl.rng
rng=pygsl.rng.rng()
print rng.gaussian(1.0)

You may set the environment variable LD_LIBRARY_PATH to find the gsl shared object.

Uninstall GSL interface:

rm -r "python install path"/lib/python"version"/site-packages/pygsl

Supported Platforms:

but is supposed to compile and run on any posix platform

Currently it is being tested: The version 2.1.1 was tested with

Testing:

The directory test will contain several testsuites, based on python unittest. Change to this directory to run the tests.

What is implemented (versus gsl2.1):

What is not implemented yet (versus gsl1.10):

See also the TODO file in the distribution.

For the exact function volume for a module, please type:

import pygsl.sf
dir(pygsl.sf)

You can do this with the other modules, too. The naming scheme is the same as in gsl.

Documentation:

There will be a small reference, but the function reference can be found in the doc strings and at the gsl-reference. See also the "examples" directory.

Support:

Please send mails to the pygsl mailinglist.

Developement:

You can browse our git repository.

Type this to check out the actual version:
git clone ssh://schnizer@git.code.sf.net/p/pygsl/GitRepro pygsl
The script tools/extract_tool.py generates most of the special function code.

ToDo:

See TODO.

History:

Thanks:

Maintainers:

PyGSL is currently maintained by Achim Gaedke and Pierre Schnizer.

Thanks to:

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