You can start the whole thing by simply typing matpy.py in a shell which starts python and does the necessary imports and implements some other goodies. Excerpt from the author (Henning Schroeder):
``... In order to play with your package I hacked together a small interactive console so that you can quickly enter expressions without caring about importing all the stuff etc. Additionally I added a small help system and a history (with load and save). ...''
Currently the lookfor function is not implemented.
An example session follows
$ matpy.py
Python 1.5.2 (#1, Sep 17 1999, 20:15:36) [GCC egcs-2.91.66 19990314/Linux (egcs- (<MatPy-console>)
Copyright 1991-1995 Stichting Mathematisch Centrum, Amsterdam
Command completion bound to tab. You can change it to C-g by typing
readline.parse_and_bind('C-g: complete')
You are working in MatPy mode! Type help to get started
>>> help
Type
help(function) to get more information on a special function
lookfor(name) to search the help for name
functions to see a list of available functions
log_on() to start logging
log_off() to stop logging
dump() to show the history
load('filename') to load filename
save('filename') to save filename
CTRL-D to exit
It is recommed to read the included documentation so that you understand
the way MatPy works.
>>> help(Matrix)
Matrix class similar to matlab>>> functions
Matrix_c, Matrix_r, Mrange, abs, acos, acosm, approx_real, arange, asin, asinm, atan, atanm, cdf_g, cdfc_g, ceil, compactAxes, cos, cosh, coshm, cosm, cov, cumprod, cumsum, diag, diff, efunc, eig, erf, exp, expm, eye, floor, format, formatC, lgam, log, log10, logm, long, longC, max, mean, median, mfunc, mfuncC, mfunc_p, min, mnorm, norm, ones, pdf_g, prod, ptp, rand, repr, reprC, short, shortC, sign, sin, sinc, sinh, sinhm, sinm, size, solve, sort, sqrt, sqrtm, std, str, strC, sum, sums, svd, tan, tanh, tanhm, tanm, to_Matrix, to_array, to_number, trapz, wait, zeros