[Discuss] 'C' string tokenizer for those who hate strtok

[Alan W. Irwin]

On 2006-06-30 11:16-0700 David Bronaugh wrote:

> Brian Quinlan wrote:
>> And my opinion is -- just use Python (or Ruby [or Perl]).
> Have fun writing graphics code in Python.

Hmm. That is exactly what the PLplot python interface does for you at least
for scientific graphics.

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> Once you stop using built-ins the interpreter overhead comes into play.

Implemented as a built-in using swig so the PLplot python interface is fast
so that interface is the one I use now for all my scientific plotting needs.

For lots of python (and other language) source code examples, see
http://plplot.sourceforge.net/examples/.

Alan
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University of Victoria (astrowww.phys.uvic.ca).

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for stellar interiors (freeeos.sf.net); PLplot scientific plotting software
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