Re: [Gretl-users] Python and Gretl
On Sat, 26 Jan 2013, Skipper Seabold wrote:
Curious what level of integration `foreign` provides. This is the
first
I've heard of it.
See part III of the Gretl User's Guide for details on
interacting with R, Ox, Octave and Stata via the "foreign"
mechanism.
Is the idea that you want to put gretl data into a numpy
array, do some operation in Python, and then move the results back to a
gretl data structure?
I presume that's the sort of thing people would want to do.
NumPy provides a C-API, so you wouldn't actually have to
write any Python code to make the data ferrying possible.
In relation to the other instances of "foreign" support, the
"natural" way of supporting Python would be to write a few I/O
functions in Python (as we've done for R and Octave). But
using the NumPy C-API would be another possibility.
Allin Cottrell