What is SciPy?

If you are a scientist, researcher, or a student doing any kind of data analysis or numeric programming, then Python is worth investing some time in, even just the basics.

Like NumPy, SciPy is stable, mature, and widely used. Many SciPy routines are thin wrappers around industry-standard Fortran libraries such as LAPACK, BLAS, etc. It’s not really necessary to learn SciPy as a whole. A more common approach is to get some idea of what’s in the library and then look up documentation as required.

SciPy and NumPy

SciPy is a package that contains various tools that are built on top of NumPy, using its array data type and related functionality.

Let’s plot $y=sin(x)$ in NumPy and in SciPy:

NumPy