[Nipy-devel] attributes vs. traits

[Jarrod Millman]

On 5/21/06, Jonathan Taylor <jonathan.taylor at stanford.edu> wrote:
> iii) i think the point about the "scientific python community" vs. the
> "python community" is important. to my eyes, much of the core (and
> interesting) work in the scientific python community is focused around
> enthought and i really like a lot of things that i saw / heard them talk
> about at scipy, in that i could immediately see how a lot of them could
> be useful.
> enthought's traits page (http://code.enthought.com/traits/) describes
> traits as "a big deal" that has revolutionized the mental model they use

I have been away and am just now catching up on my email.  Does anyone
know if anyone besides enthought is using traits?  I know that enthought is
a strong supporter of scipy, but I was under the impression that some of the
code they were developing had seen little use outside their paid developers.

For example, I think it is the case that most scientific programmers are using
matplotlib as opposed to enthought's chaco.  The enthought team has certainly
done some impressive work developing traits, but it would be good to know
if there are any scientific projects using it.  I went through the
google hits for
"python traits" and they all seemed to be enthought generated content.

Jarrod

PS. As per Fernando's email, I will put a page together on the wiki and send an
email to enthought-dev to get their feedback.