Dear developer,

Since roughly 2006 OMPC was just a bunch of Python tricks and a regular expressions based translator that always required a finalizing touch of an experienced programmer. Only thanks to a self-imposed deadline, in September 2008 it is the first time OMPC can be used without human involvement. It can adapt MATLAB® programs for use with the Python interpreter. Even before I am a programmer that works in a scientific laboratory. Although I am always involved in some kind of research I always end up programming features for Python or MATLAB® that make the work in the lab easier. As you can imagine, instead of concentrating on research I spend a lot of time coding.

The released OMPC at the moment is a very small portion of what it can become. It is the brains and sweat of a single person. Well, not really, I use a lot of code that I found all over the web. I could trace attempts to make MATLAB for Python back to 2000 (http://matpy.sourceforge.net/CHANGES). Since then the numerical extensions for Python grew into mature and stable libraries, namely numpy, scipy and matplotlib. There were even attempts to modify Python in favor of MATLAB® features (PEP 225). Today, everything is much easier, look at the Examples page and you will realize that it is not necessary to ask for changes in Python. Running MATLAB® programs in the Python interpreter is possible.

There are more files than the release repository at bitbucket. Just to prove myself what I can do, I have written many small programs. This includes a console that might once look like the MATLAB Workspace window, a browser based on tkhtml. Contact me and I will let you now how you can find them. They are not released because they need more work, but eventually ...

Anyway, all I want to say is,


If you are an experienced programmer you will get the programs running. And if not don't hesitate and contact me. Even if you cannot help, I need to know what features are the most interesting for people.

Help me to make this message disappear from the page and put here something more useful.