Getting started

You can start by either trying the interactive mode or running and examining the examples.

To start with the interactive mode, within any python interactive environment, type from MatPy.interact import *. Then follow the instructions to type help, names, lookfor, demo, and so on. The demo command would run all the examples as described below. ¹

The examples are in the tests directory. These examples serve to

• Test the correctness of the implementation MatPy.
• Demo the relevant behavior of MatPy.
• As examples of usage for MatPy.

There are several ways to use the examples

• During installation. make installmod; make examples would run all the examples. Alternatively, make install will call make which will call make examples.
• After install. run matpy (directly on Unix or run python matpy on Windows). Within it you can explore help, functions, demo, lookfor(name), etc.
• Run individually. For example, python tests/test_basic.py will test some basic functionalities. To run them all, do python tests/test_all.py.
• Within normal python interpreter. Type from MatPy.tests import * will run all the tests.
• Just read the example code to see how it works.

The programs and results are listed below.