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.