=====Required Packages=====

== Basics ==
python 

== Interactive shell ==
ipython

== Python modules including functions similar to matlab ==

python-matplotlib

python-matplotlib-tk

python-matplotlib-wx

python-numpy

== Additional scientific functions ==
python-scipy
python-devel

All these packages are in SUSE science repository
    http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/science/openSUSE_11.3 science


== Netcdf input/output ==
ScientificPython-2.8 (this is not in Suse distribution !)

requires python-numpy-devel

netcdf is now also included in scipy: 
scipy.io.netcdf

== HDF input/output ==

h5py

requires python-numpy-devel

== Running python ==

Start interactive shell and load matplotlib module

   ipython -pylab