I don't see anything new here, but for any practioners like myself Scikit-learn and Spyder were the Python tools which finally moved me from a die hard MATLAB j

I don't see anything new here, but for any practioners like myself Scikit-learn and Spyder were the Python tools which finally moved me from a die hard MATLAB junkie. I grabbed the handy Anaconda package from here: https://store.continuum.io/cshop/anaconda/ https://store.continuum.io/cshop/anaconda/ Within about two weeks, and with a little bit of discipline, I became a MATLAB->Python convert. Spyder is a solid IDE, and Anaconda comes with all the packages you need (i.e. Matplotlib...). All that's left now is to find a solution to MATLAB's excellent debugging. You can break to pydb in Spyder but the debug environment is nowhere near as functional as iPython.